Obama Is Delivering--Nazi Health Care, as LaRouche Warned

As Obama's Hitler health bill goes into effect, it is, as LaRouche and LPAC warned, accelerating the cutbacks in vital care, and health care facilities, on which the elderly, poor, and sick depend. Given the craven capitulation of the Congress to Obama's plan, the only remedy for these genocidal cuts is the acceleration of the mass strike process, aimed at removing Obama, and replacing the bankrupt imperial financial system.

In just the last few days, the following elements of the genocide program have come to light:

* A physician who works with a major nursing home/senior living center in New Jersey, reported to LPAC on a meeting he held with a top official of that center, where the official laid out the policy that is coming on line for Medicare patients. "They are planning on capitizing the medicare expenditures," he said. That means that "In the next ten years, they will give a certain amount of funding for Medicare for all the hospitals, doctors, nurses, visiting nurses, etc. in an area, and all the medical personnel will be in this one pool, by area.... That will be the money that can be spent on the elderly. It's capped."

"Do you know what that means?" he asked. Yes, we do. It means the application of Hitler's "lives unworthy of life" principle—genocide—against the elderly.

* The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servies (CMS) has already ordered a cut of 2.9% in Medicare payments to hospitals, to be begun October 1 (the beginning of fiscal 2011). This cut, which comes on top of the fact that hospitals already lost 5.9% on taking Medicare patients in 2010, will lead rapidly toward bankrupting more hospitals, and pushing them to deny care to elderly, poor patients.

This cut, made before Obama's Nazi health bill goes into effect, will be augmented by a mandated cut of .25% by the Obama bill.

* Community cancer clinics are closing at an increasingly rapid rate around the country, due to severe cuts in reimbursements by Medicare for cancer care. 39 community cancer clinics in 15 states are currently closed, or in the process of closing. If the trend continues, says the Community Oncology Alliance, this number could double by the end of this year.

The impact this will have on mortality is reflected in the fact that four out of five U.S. cancer patients are treated in a community setting, and approximately half of all U.S. cancer patients are Medicare patients.

In addition, Medicare has already decided on additional payment cuts in 2011, 2012 and 2013—on top of cuts in payment of 35% since 2004.

The Uproar Begins

In response to the impending hospital cuts, a mobilization is already underway, which includes the American Hospital Association and other trade groups. TV ads are being taken out protesting the cuts. Joining them on July 12 were 242 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, who wrote to incoming CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, asking him to review and change the prospective payment cut.

"A cut of this size in FY 2011 payments to hospitals could weaken their ability to provide high quality services to their patients and communities," the letter concludes, in a massive understatement.

More vigorous has been the growing series of demands being raised by the Republicans, for the Democrats to schedule a hearing for Berwick to explain how he intends to implement the new law. After three other letters demanding a hearing were ignored, the 15 Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Chairman Sander Levin on July 14, reiterating their demand. In the Senate, the Republicans on the Finance Committee have made the same demand of chairman Max Baucus.

Obama, and the Democratic leadership, have no intention of complying, for the same reason they didn't permit the Constitutional approval process for Berwick in the Senate: exposing him to questioning would just expose the genocidal intent of his policy, which he has already stated publicly with his avid support for Britain's NICE.

Enter the mass strike, or else.