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:
Moe Lane
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Caleb Howe
Dan McLaughlin
Vladimir
EE, you're not listening to the One:
Rod_Patrick Friday, August 21st at 8:31AM EDT (link)“We are all God’s partners in matters of life and death”.
That’s from the holy mouth of the 44th American President.
They can't really say it is not in the health bill
Steph C Friday, August 21st at 8:55AM EDT (link)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.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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If Congress wants to judge
banzaibob Friday, August 21st at 8:57AM EDT (link)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.
Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas
It’s better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!
Emiliano Zapata
As usual, the military is at the point of the spear:
blooch Friday, August 21st at 9:06AM EDT (link)http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204683204574358590107981718.html
“The government has absolutely no right to keep *peaceful* individuals out of the U.S.”–mtnrunner2
Death squad...I mean panel
bosslowrider Friday, August 21st at 9:37AM EDT (link)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!
Wait...
Wing Zero Friday, August 21st at 10:40AM EDT (link)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?
1-21-09 - We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
I wonder if anyone has tried to fight such a denial...
Moriah Friday, August 21st at 12:36PM EDT (link)… 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.
Blessings,
Moriah
I Support Death Panels!
mitrebox Friday, August 21st at 2:07PM EDT (link)for people that blow up airplanes.
By law, Medicare is prohibited from
rhutcheson Friday, August 21st at 3:14PM EDT (link)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?
I don't know anything about Medicare
Lammo Friday, August 21st at 3:17PM EDT (link)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).
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