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The Death Panels Are Real. We Have the Video.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 21st, 2009 at 06:00 AM  | 

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The “Death Panels” get liberals hackles up more than the thought of “rationing” healthcare.

But let’s be real. Given limited resources and government funding, at some point your healthcare will be the subject of a cost/benefit analysis by a government bureaucrat.

Now here’s the funny thing: it is already happening.

We posted on this earlier, but the clip over 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

For those of you who have radio shows, etc. and want to run this, I’ve pared down this news story to a manageable 1 minute and 28 second segment.

You can easily catch what’s going on — a lady’s doctor recommends she get medical treatment. The state run healthcare system says no and refers her to an assisted suicide specialist. The bureaucrat in charge of what amounts to a real death panel admits that the money could be better spent elsewhere, so the patient is going to have to die.

It is an inevitable fact of life that the more the government outlays to keep you alive, the more your life becomes subject to a cost/benefit analysis.

Here’s the audio/video proving death panels are, in fact, real:

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  • Rod_Patrick

    “We are all God’s partners in matters of life and death”.

    That’s from the holy mouth of the 44th American President.

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    All they can do is complain about the blunt term. When liberals are put on the spot they forget about things like synonyms and want you to look only at the literal word as it is the only one that has meaning.

  • banzaibob

    your worth then lets judge Congress’s worth, which is zero. The economy is almost in ruins and debt up to great grand-children?s eyeballs leaves very little to nothing for healthcare. So I may suggest if a health issue arises for a member of Congress, sorry we have to let you go because we can?t afford you anymore.

  • blooch

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204683204574358590107981718.html

  • bosslowrider

    I’m 73. I retired in ’02. I’m a veteran and I have a pain in my right hip. Dang, I’m screwed big time!

  • Wing Zero

    The Evil Drug company was willing to give the woman medication for FREE, and the compassionate, loving, all knowing state government wouldn’t pay for treatment?

  • Moriah

    … with the fact that Tarceva is also indicated as a palliative care treatment — it reduces pain even if the patient is still going to die, and narcotics cannot get rid of everything. (Unfortunately such denials occur in other places than Oregon…)

    Admittedly, some of the side effects would make it one many patients who were opting for palliative-only care would choose to avoid.

  • http://twitter.com/mitrebox mitrebox

    for people that blow up airplanes.

  • rhutcheson

    making decisions based on cost – it must only consider the effectiveness of a treatment. If you’re worried about this aspect of the Oregon system, why don’t you just advocate for inclusion of that law in that state as it already is in the federal program?

  • http://www.marklaiminger.org Lammo

    but do you mean to tell me that cost has no bearing on their analysis of “effectiveness”? If cost isn’t a factor they’re doing it wrong (of course, by all accounts they are doing it wrong so who knows).