bump.
I think one of the most telling features of this deathcare bill is congress exempting themselves from it.
Our own Keith Allahson, er, Ellison was recently asked if he and his family would be placing themselves under this national triage unit plan and he didn't answer the question.
His silence speaks volumes.
This sort of thinking has long been incorporated into the medical ethos. When treatment becomes ineffective or hopeless, the operative standard becomes, "Comfort Measures Only", as I recall the term.
It's all very reasonable, and the big lie here is that we need to move away from a standard of "support life at all cost" that was in fact abandoned years ago.
I guess when you’ve spent your whole career astroturfing, and getting your way with bussed-in rent-a-mobsTM, seeing genuine populism can be quite disconcerting.
That’s the thing about rent-a-mobs, they’ve always had
some control of them, true populist action is something
they can’t predict and it scares the crap out of them,
terrifies them in fact because they know they are guilty
of manipulation and deserve what the “mob” is going to
dish out to them. It’s about time too.
Excellent thread by the way.
Another thing, the reason they are so desperate to not
be the sole creators of this nationalization is they
understand how hated it is and that pushing it through
by themselves makes it totally their own.
If they keep pushing.......somebody will push back. It
hasn’t been necessary ....as yet.
Tet68