Don’t Blame Obamacare!

Hospitals have always had to triage

Photo by Olga Guryanova on Unsplash

I’ve seen social media posts screaming that, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (colloquially known as Obamacare), Medicare will triage sick people based on their age. They will let old people die, presumably because they’ve outlived their usefulness in society.

Since when is that anything new?!? A handful of cultures in this world look up to…