"We're going to let you die"
Friday, October 16, 2009 Filed under: Healthcare Comments
H/T: Gateway Pundit and Verum Serum
Here is Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton and more recently an Obama economic adviser having a moment of brutal honesty about healthcare "reform." This was a speech he gave at UC Berkeley in 2007, in which he shares what a candidate for president would say, if that candidate were being honest and not worried about getting elected:
You can here the full audio clip here. The Wall Street Journal has the full transcript here.
On care for seniors:
"And by the way, we are going to have to--if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive, so we're going to let you die."
On who's going to pay for it all:
"I am going to try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people. But that means you--particularly you young people, particularly you young, healthy people--you're going to have to pay more."
And on the effects of gov't forcing drug companies, medical suppliers, and insurance companies to reduce costs:
"But that means less innovation, and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market, which means you are probably not going to live that much longer than your parents."
Which by the way, isn't saying much - your parents won't be living that long either based on the first quote.
No surprise, the MSM has yet to report on this...
