Your grandparents weren’t wrong. They will be required to see a doctor every few years who will discuss “dying with dignity”. They may not pull the trigger immediately but all 3 of Obama’s top advisors on this healthcare package believe that the best care and procedures should be reserved for those who will benefit the longest from it and that those 50 should get the least care. 50 because they stand to benefit much less from a heart operation than someone say 30.
There is a ton of documentation on this so please google it before writing off their “garbled bull*edited*”. They’re closer to the facts than you are.
Also, here’s a quote that got me banned from posting on Media Matters’ youtube videos. It’s directly from the House version of this bill.
HR3200 §102(a)(1) said:
(A) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.
If this clause makes it into the final draft, and there’s no reason to think it won’t, then private health insurance companies will be forbidden from taking on new customers. It will effectively force everyone into grandfathering their existing coverage and if they lose it for any reason, like losing their job, they will be forced onto the government plan.
Children dropped off their parent’s plans by age limits (I think it’s like 25 now) will be forced to take the government plan and will have no alternative. Period.
In the same section it also forces private insurers to NEVER change pricing, benefits, or terms, regardless of whether or not the package you have is comperable or price competitve with other insurers. If the price were to ever lower, they wouldn’t be allowed to. If they want to raise the price they have to raise it equally to ALL in that risk group and before they can that they have to get permission from “the Commissioner”.