Posted on 08/04/2013 4:41:52 PM PDT by LD Jackson
I have always liked Bill Whittle and his Afterburner series of videos, but his most recent have really been home runs. He exposed the Trayvon Martin debacle in July. August's video points out just how close to the truth Sarah Palin was when she raised the possibility of death panels coming out of Obamacare. She was castigated in the media when she made the following statement on Facebook in August 2009.
Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.Liberals nearly blew the lid off the media when Sarah Palin made that statement. They called her a liar and said she was ridiculous for saying it. As it turns out, even some liberals are now publicly admitting that she was right about the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Most notable of those liberals is Howard Dean.
Right Wing News - One major problem is the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.How about that? A liberal finally admits Sarah Palin was right, even if he doesn't mention her name and give her the credit for her astute observation. Please watch Afterburner with Bill Whittle to see him hammer that point home.There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system. However, rate setting—the essential mechanism of the IPAB—has a 40-year track record of failure. What ends up happening in these schemes (which many states including my home state of Vermont have implemented with virtually no long-term effect on costs) is that patients and physicians get aggravated because bureaucrats in either the private or public sector are making medical decisions without knowing the patients. Most important, once again, these kinds of schemes do not control costs. The medical system simply becomes more bureaucratic.
http://youtu.be/KOKzNc_2S6w
“life unworthy of life”
from death panels of the past.
and they were evil.
hint: in German: “Lebensunwertes Leben”
“There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system.”
IF you buy that drivel, you need look no further than the federal government. Health care costs did not begin their skyrocketing increases until the feds got involved in the late 50’s and early 60’s. It has been a needlessly manipulated market ever since.
The secret to cutting, controlling, managing health care costs in the US is to get the government clear out of it.
Amen.
“The medical system simply becomes more bureaucratic and the bureaucrats become more numerous and keep demanding raises and benefits.”
In the 1950’s, medical care was affordable and insurance was relatively unknown. Even in the early ‘60’s, I got lots of dental work at affordable costs with no insurance.
Then along came Ted Kennedy with his great, ground breaking discovery - the HMO. Medical costs have been on a screwball track ever since.
The first half of this rant is in defense of Palin’s “death panels” commentary. It’s a good rant over all, enjoy......
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