Posted on 08/30/2010 8:41:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Friday, August 7, 2009, Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook page: "The Democrats promise that a government healthcare system will reduce the cost of healthcare, but [it] will not...it will simply refuse to pay the cost. 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...whether they are worthy of healthcare. Such a system is downright evil."
The response of Democrats and the media to Palin's assertion can only be described as outrage. Howard Dean went on ABC and called it "totally erroneous," concluding, "She just made that up." Even David Brooks, the closest thing to a conservative the New York Times can bring themselves to hire, proclaimed on Meet the Press, "That's crazy...the crazies are attacking the plan because it'll cut off granny, and that – that's simply not true. That simply is not going to happen."
And even last week, Newsweek magazine ranked the idea that there would be bureaucratic boards making life-and-death decisions for people as one of the "Dumb Things Americans Believe."
The only problem for Dean, Brooks, Newsweek and the whole lot is that it now appears that under ObamaCare there are bureaucratic boards making life-and-death decisions for people.
Take the anti-cancer drug Avastin, which was fast-tracked by the FDA years ago. It is primarily used to treat colon cancer, but is also prescribed now to treat nearly 18,000 women a year who are fighting the late stages of breast cancer. While Avastin doesn't cure the disease, it can and does significantly lengthen and improve the quality of a victim's last months. Perhaps to be expected, Avastin is also very expensive, costing up to $100,000 a year.
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Insurance companies and hospitals have been making such decisions for a long, long time. This is nothing remotely new.
Sorry to burst the bubble.
Different topic, but Obama is already offering amnesty:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2579782/posts
Conservatives understand this guy. But up til now, the man-in-the-street has been saying: “No, no. He wouldn’t do that. No death panels, no amnesty. He’s not like that. And he’s not a Muslim, either.”
But people are waking up — and finding out that the nightmare is very real.
“Insurance companies and hospitals have been making such decisions for a long, long time.”
In SOME ways this is true, however, in the past, I could go to a different hospital or change my insurance company to better accommodate mine and my families needs! With Obamacare, I cannot get away from these idiots and THEIR decisions are permanent!!
With ObamaCare, don’t even think about having a community fund raiser to pay for “unproven” treatments. By the way, what does this do to the Jimmy Fund?
“Insurance companies and hospitals have been making such decisions for a long, long time.”
You can’t see the difference between having a bunch of companies setting policies, on the one hand, and having a single unappealable government agency setting them, on the other?
Noone likes having someone tell them they have to pay for their own medicine. And rationing of a scarce good will happen somewhere. But at least with insurance companies, customers can often change from one to the other. And marginal changes can make big differences in company behavior. Econ 101.
Plus, having the gvt make the decision means that coverage for favored groups will become another form of vig that politicians can use to buy votes. $100,000 a year AIDS drugs will be covered. $100,000 a year prostate cancer medication will not. An average guy doesn’t count nearly as much as an average homosexual, even though prostate cancer is much more common and genetics, not lifestyle choices, are the primary determinate of whether you get it and when. So Obamacare becomes the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of death.
Finally, I hate the idea of having someone like Nancy Pelosi have their fingers in that decision loop with all the power that carries.
So no bubble burst. There’s a huge difference.
That's not what's happening here. Miss Heck is having an attack of the vapors.
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