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Ted Kennedy's Health Care To Be Rationed? (Vanity)
Torch The Mummy | 2/9/09 | Torch The Mummy

Posted on 02/09/2009 1:06:26 PM PST by torchthemummy

As discussed by Rush and others, embedded in the "stimulus" bill is a creation of the "Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research" which would essentially be empowered to ration treatments based on factors such as life expectancy and cost effectiveness which would result in medical dollars for older patients being denied and transferred for the use of younger, "still productive" patients.

It would seem that an appropriate question would be whether Ted Kennedy's incurable brain malady would have been determined "a waste of resources" and thus rationed/denied services?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: health; kennedy; medical; rationing
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To: torchthemummy

Here in Oregon a woman was told that she was too sick for the State to pay for chemo but they offered to pay for her assisted suicide drugs.

Soylent Green is coming.


21 posted on 02/09/2009 1:23:58 PM PST by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: torchthemummy
which would essentially be empowered to ration treatments based on factors such as life expectancy and cost effectiveness which would result in medical dollars for older patients being denied and transferred for the use of younger, "still productive" patients.

Then the latter had better get the Obama stickers off their bumpers because, since "All politics is local", should I get an adverse diagnosis and am refused treatment, I am taking those bastards with me.

22 posted on 02/09/2009 1:24:44 PM PST by Gorzaloon (Roark, Architect.)
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To: torchthemummy

Soylent Green anyone?


23 posted on 02/09/2009 1:36:35 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: torchthemummy

Just like paying taxes, following the rules is not for the elites like Daschle or Kennedy.


24 posted on 02/09/2009 1:38:51 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: torchthemummy

Rationed care is for the little people.


25 posted on 02/09/2009 1:41:09 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: DonaldC
Those with the gold make the rules. In the free market system, the insurance companies decided who got what and the people cried. Now it will be the gov and the people will cry, maybe a little louder, but they will get used to it and that will be that.

Right. The decisions of who gets to live and who gets to die will be made because they must. The only thing is that before insurance, the individual made the decision of when health care was no longer cost effective. He used his own dime, and made his own decision. With insurance, insurance companies made the decisions, tho your doctor could overrule if he cared enough. Now, big government bureaucrats are going to decide when your care is no longer cost-effective.

Someone explain to me, why the American public wants government health care so badly ? Because they think that everyone will get everything they want/need, but this is childish thinking. Adults know that hard decisions have to be made, and it's best if each one makes their own.

26 posted on 02/09/2009 1:53:03 PM PST by Red Boots
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To: ought-six
Soylent Green anyone?

More like Logan's Run.

-PJ

27 posted on 02/09/2009 1:58:37 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
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To: torchthemummy

Nothing wrong with Ted that a good ride over the Chapaquidick bridge couldn’t cure. I have nothing nice to say about this guy and never will.


28 posted on 02/09/2009 1:59:08 PM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: torchthemummy

It is my feeling that Teddy should get the same level of health care as that received by Mary Jo K after he heroically pulled her from that car in...

What’s that?

NEVER MIND!!


29 posted on 02/09/2009 2:50:07 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: G.Mason
Is Teddy Kennedy still alive?

Unfortunately "ugly" isn't terminal.

30 posted on 02/09/2009 2:50:52 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: torchthemummy

I think Teddy and Ginsberg should be the examples of Universal Health Care treatment now-—so we can see how it will work for the rest of us...but they will never be treated like the rest of us!


31 posted on 02/09/2009 2:56:01 PM PST by lonestar
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Ted won’t wait for a second for care. He’ll receive gold-plated treatment and the finest doctors. Waiting is for the peasants like us (and no, under Teddy’s plan you don’t have the right to pay for private coverage.

Well folks, O'Bungle told us and told us that his mission is "Hope, not fear" and that he represents "Change you can believe in".

He tole Plumber Joe that he was going to spread the wealth, and Plumber Joe immediately got an anal exam for daring to ask an impertinent question of the Master.

And just a week or so ago O'BoomBoom informed some of the legislature that their changes were DOA hecause "I won".

It isn't hard to take the "I won" pronouncment as another way to say "To the victor belongs the spoils". Marcy and Andrew Jackson saw it that way, and obviously O'Bumble does too.

We won! We will decide who lives and dies!

The porkulus bill is an outrage, and the new health standards are going to be even more so.

32 posted on 02/09/2009 3:02:02 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: torchthemummy
It would seem that an appropriate question would be whether Ted Kennedy's incurable brain malady would have been determined "a waste of resources"

Ted and his whole damned clan have *always* had an incurable brain malady (Liberalism), and as such, are a waste of resources, namely air.

33 posted on 02/09/2009 3:03:25 PM PST by TexasRepublic (I am inconsolate over the death of our country.)
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To: torchthemummy
"..It would seem that an appropriate question would be whether Ted Kennedy's incurable brain malady would have been determined "a waste of resources" and thus rationed/denied services?.."

Good point, but as always, it is one standard for the rich and powerful and another for the rest of us.

34 posted on 02/09/2009 4:08:57 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: torchthemummy

“be empowered to ration treatments based on factors such as life expectancy and cost effectiveness which would result in medical dollars for older patients being denied and transferred for the use of younger, “still productive” patients.”

And the flip side is that armed citizerns can also make choices on who will live.


35 posted on 02/09/2009 5:01:28 PM PST by sergeantdave (nobama is the anti-Lincoln who will re-institute slavery to government)
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