It is truly amazing how destructive government run solutions are when they are put into practice. And it is amazing anyone in their right mind would put their lives in the hand of faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats. But both facts are still true, and clearly at work when it comes to Obamacare.

This is a compendium of recent articles and blogger posts, which when pulled together show a full picture of what is happening to health care as government mismanagement destroys this critical human service. Beginning with the blow dealt to sick children:

In an unintended consequence of the new health care law, drug companies have begun notifying children’s hospitals around the country that they no longer qualify for large discounts on drugs used to treat rare medical conditions.

Taking medicine from a sick child – and people say there are no death panels? Poor sick children, with rare diseases. That is where Obamacare went to get some needed money to cover people who don’t even want to buy insurance? This is how a cold, heartless, budget driven government bureaucracy decides priorities. Which is why it should never be involved in life and death decisions and be the arbiter of who lives and who dies (or who gets the money to live or die).

The next target of Obamacare is the elderly of course – whose reward for a long and productive life feeding the bureaucratic beast is to be short changed at the end, when their needs arise:

Want an appointment with kidney specialist Adam Weinstein of Easton, Md.? If you’re a senior covered by Medicare, the wait is eight weeks.

How about a checkup from geriatric specialist Michael Trahos? Expect to see him every six months: The Alexandria-based doctor has been limiting most of his Medicare patients to twice yearly rather than the quarterly checkups he considers ideal for the elderly. Still, at least he’ll see you. Top-ranked primary care doctor Linda Yau is one of three physicians with the District’s Foxhall Internists group who recently announced they will no longer be accepting Medicare patients.

“It’s not easy. But you realize you either do this or you don’t stay in business,” she said.

More death panel thinking. It is called triage – deciding who shall be sacrificed when medical resources are short and cannot be applied to all. Usually it means withholding resources from those with very little chance to recover. But in the bureaucrat’s world, it means cutting off those who use up the most resources – regardless of impact on the individual. The bureaucrat gets to play God and decide the fate of all of us.

Government run health care has been running on the cheap since it inception. It has never paid full price for services rendered. Instead, health care providers have covered the government short fall with revenues from those of us who pay our own way (either through employer or individual policies). But the government’s latest plan cut so deep that it has become a decision of dumping those on the stingy government plans or stop serving those who have carried their own weight up to now.

Death panels can force a result by harsh financial coercion. Either dump those expensive seniors or stop all together – that is the key choice Obamacare has given this nation. It is a pack with the devil, plain and simple.

Was this unforeseen? Hell no! One only needs to look at the results of government run care in the UK to see the pending disaster waiting us if we don’t undo Obamacare ASAP:

Financial pressures may mean junior doctors are not given training posts within the NHS and the overall number of places at medical school could drop, a report has said.

This is despite extra burdens on the health service, including European rules limiting doctors’ hours, more hospital admissions and people living longer than ever before, according to the study from the UK Royal Colleges of Physicians (RCP).

Those specialties dedicated to looking after very ill people are facing particular strain, it said.

Bureaucrats ran the UK NHS into the ground. There are endless horror stories of patients left to die in long lines, or left to rot in substandard facilities, or who died to botched surgeries. In the UK the health care service is designed to try and ward off illness, not address it once it hits. Being old and in need of care is treated as a bad life style, undeserving of the public’s support – like smoking, eating or drinking to excess.

This is the madness of socialized medicine. This is the proven result of giving your medical power of attorney over to the bloated and heartless bureaucracy. This is Obamacare.

Addendum: Is this the kind of people you want running your health care? At least insurance companies are not above the law (like politicians and bureaucrats).