Fw: Seniors BEWARE - BE SURE TO READ THIS ONE!

[Guest guest]

*Forget about getting to age 75, this exact thing happened to me this

morning at Danbury hospital here in Ct. I was scheduled for a

cardio-lite

stress test. This is a tread mill stress test where during the process

they inject nuclear dye into your blood stream and then put you in a CAT

scan or something similar and take a picture of your heart. If all is

good

the heart shows up red, if there are blocked arteries anywhere that

portion

of the heart shows up pink. I have had three of these tests in the past

twelve years due to blocked arteries discovered in 2000. They use the

test to determine if I need a roto router or a bypass operation.***

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*So I arrive at the hospital at 8 am this morning and I am in the

process

of checking in at Cardiology and the lady says that my appointment has

been

canceled. She makes a call and speaks with someone and hands me the

phone. It is a nurse in cardiology who says that my medical coverage

denied the procedure. I said it was routine, part of my heart

maintenance

process and ordered by my PCP and with approval from my Cardiologist who

is

the head of Danbury Cardiology which is right where I was standing. She

goes, " yes but we were denied our request " . So I say, I have Medicare

so

what is my backup insurance doing denying anything. Then the bombshell,

she says it was the Medicare board that denied the procedure. ***

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*At that point, I turn to everyone behind me, and it was a long line,

and I

say to them " well you won't have to wait too long today because my

stress

test procedure was just canceled by a Medicare Death Panel. I am only

67

so can you imagine what is going to happen when we really get old " .

The

entire waiting room and everyone there from patients to staff just went

dead silent. So I turn to the front desk and tell them, " I guess I

will

have to write a letter to the editor of the Danbury News Times and call

my

Senators and Congressman and let them know the Death Panels have already

convened " . Then I walked out.***

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*By the time I got home the message machine was blinking. My PCP had

already called and so did the hospital and guess what, Medicare decided

to

approve my stress test procedure and if I could get back down to the

hospital they would fit me in right now for this 3 hour procedure. I

told

them I couldn't make it, that I was going fishing because I didn't know

how

many more fishing trips I could get in before I went into cardiac arrest

but not to worry about me costing the government any money because I am

a

30% disabled Army veteran, due to Agent Orange poisoning which is what

caused this heart problem to begin with, and I qualify to be buried for

free in a plain pine wrapper in the cheap graves section at any National

Cemetery. I certainly don't want to cost our government any money so

maybe we just won't do this procedure anymore and we can use the money

to

redistribute it to all of the illegal's to keep them alive so they can

mow

the lawns at the National Cemeteries. ***

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*So this Death Panel crap has started. If we don't vote this guy and

his

criminal cronies out of office this November then we will all die

younger

than we should as broke paupers as the country goes bankrupt. Feel free

to

distribute my note to anyone and make it a mission to not only make your

vote count but on behalf of all of us please make an effort to change

the

thinking of anyone remotely willingly to get intellectually engaged in

this

critical time in our country's history. ** ***

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*WELL ISN'T THIS SOME SPECIAL NEWS GRANDMA AND PAPA!!!***

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*I had one of the most troubling, most disturbing conversations ever

with

Dr. Suzanne , head of emergency services at the City

Medical

Center in Tennessee . We were discussing the " future " and I asked her

had

she seen any effects of Obama Care in her work?

" Oh, yes. We are seeing cutbacks throughout the services we provide. For

example, we are now having to deal with patients who would normally

receive

dialysis can no longer be accepted. In the past, there was always

automatic

approval under Medicare for anyone who needed dialysis -- not anymore. "

So,

what will be their outcome? " They will die soon without dialysis, " she

stated.

What about other services? She indicated as of 2013 (after the

election),

no one over 75 will be given major medical procedures unless approved by

locally administered Ethics Panels. These Panels will determine whether

a

patient receives medical treatment or not. While details on specific

operating procedures and schedules, Dr. points out that most

life-threatening emergencies do not occur during normal hospital

business

hours, and if there are emergencies that depend to be resolve within

minutes or just few hours, the likely hood of getting these Panels

approval

in time to save a life are going to be very challenging and

difficult, if not impossible she said.

This applies to major operations such as receiving stents, bypass

surgery,

kidney operations, or treating for an aneurysm that would be normally

covered under Medicare today. In other words, if you needed a

life-saving

operation, Medicare will not provide coverage anymore after 2013 if you

are

75 or over. When in 2013? " We haven't been given a specific date --

could

be in January or July....but it's after the election. "

This is shocking to any of us who will be 75 this year. Her advice --

get

healthy and stay healthy. We do not know the specifics of the actual

implementation of the full Obama Care policies and procedures -- " they

haven't filtered down to the local level yet. But we are already seeing

severe cuts in what we provide to the elderly -- we refused dialysis to

an

individual who was 78 just the other day....we refused to give stents to

a

gentleman who was in his late 80s. " Every day, she said, we are seeing

these cutbacks aimed at reducing care across the board for anyone who is

over 75.

We can only hope that Obama Care will be overturned by the Supreme Court

--

otherwise, this is a death sentence to those who are over 75....perhaps

you

should pass this on to your friends who are thinking of voting for Obama

this year.

Regardless if you have private health care coverage now (I have Aetna

Medicare Part -- it will no longer apply after 2013 if the Ethics

Panels

disapprove of a procedure that may save your life.***

* **Scary, scary, scary. Think about this? You? Your parents? Your loved

ones?***

* **Didn't know about it? Of course, not. As Pelosi said.... " well,

if

you want to know what's in the bill, you'll have to read it..... " After

it

was passed.

This is a graphic reminder of the need to stay healthy. Get your plot

now

at Forest Lawn....while they last. Is this a death sentence to those of

us

who will reach 75?.....Yes!***

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*Please do pass this along to those in your address book. ***

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