Heroin to replace death panels for obamacare cost containment

[as seen on tv]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/opinions/drexler-white-population-death-rate/index.html

On more than one occasion I’ve questioned why president obama was so keen to expand the war in Afghanistan (which has no oil) while exiting the rest of the middle east. Ensuring affordable heroin imports to America was the only plausible conclusion I could reach. I was ridiculed by the left, of course.

Now comes a medical study which uncovers a stunning rise in deaths among middle aged white people. The leading cause? Narcotics use . . . (see link above)

90% of “new users” trying Heroin are white middle aged folks. And why not? Ousted from their assembly line and desk jobs by a failing economy which has given us record numbers “not in the workforce” over the past 6 years, evidently they are turning to drugs and alcohol.

I’m sure the continuous extensions of unemployment benefits – for years – were intended to “help”. But in fact they had the opposite effect. What bored, out of work person is going to be able to resist the lure of a well stocked refrigerator, 3 liter box wine, or dime bag of heroin on sale during his trip to the corner store?

Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died from a heroin OD last year, was certainly not a “first time user”. On the day of his death he bought $1,000 worth of narcotics less than an hour after his visit to an ATM. The dealer who “fixed him up” was released on parole with no time served, after pleading out to some sort of reduced charge. Probably something like “distribution with intent NOT to bribe a police officer” . . .?

We could, of course, reverse the trend of increasing heroin use if we wanted to. But so many Americans DON’T want to.

I’m thinking big city mayors, who don’t want the urban chaos that enforcing drug laws would mean. Left leaning “social experts” who argue that its no business of the government if you're zonked 24/7 – you can still keep your kids if you promise to try harder next time. Congresspersons who are regular coke users and don’t see the risk.

Although I am NOT a heroin user, I agree with the advantages, from a health care cost containment perspective:

• No doctors visit or forms to fill out to obtain your drugs. no reimbursement snafus
• Symptoms of other middle aged ailments are almost completely suppressed by heroin – arthritis, depression, COPD, the frequent need to urinate . . .
• Overdoses typically do not result in further costs of recovery/cure. You’re simply dead, and the only thing remaining are “final expenses” – burial or cremation.

So . . I may not agree with heroin use for my own immediate family. But I agree with the government that it should be informally available to people who are likely to be burden to society.

Now if only we could get congress hooked . . .