Washington's Wake

I was thinking about a comment I read on Hotair.com

… I work for the medical device industry and I am telling you that our CEO has already contacted us and let us know, in no uncertain terms, that this will mean job cuts, and deep ones at that…  I cannot emphasize enough how devastating this will be for innovation and medical advances in this country. How willing will the government be to pay for the necessary equipment to keep premature children alive? …

I snipped out a good deal of that, but I want to focus on this thought, Obamacare is focused on reducing inefficiencies and waste – and cost. Obviously the most wasteful inefficient expensive thing is a person. If they could just get rid of people they could easily save money.

Now that might sound sort of caustic and sarcastic, to some degree it is, but think of this – in Europe and most countries with socialized medical care, they define babies very differently than we do. “Live born” doesn’t mean what it means here. So,  to keep ‘premature children alive’ is actually the WRONG way to look at it. They won’t define them as babies at all. It won’t count toward infant mortality rate, and it’ll mean an instant improvement in the numbers.

An infant isn’t dying if you don’t define it as an infant until it reaches a certain weight/gestation. Therefore, you aren’t killing them or ‘letting them die’ — they don’t even exist. It’s just a miscarriage.

THAT is what i’m afraid of more than anything. That they’ll use language games to hide things that are beyond despicably evil.