[Puddleglum]

Allow me to say this: with government health care, there will not only be rationing, there will be politically-correct rationing. Are you a smoker or obese? Why, you should have taken better care of yourself. Do you have HIV as a result of a risky sex life? Step to the front of the line.

Just my prediction. You will also see politically-correct rationing in other forms, just as you have seen political correctness in the home loan industry, the awarding of federal contracts, in city hiring decisions, etc. Your health concerns will be thrown in the pool and stirred around until the statistics meet what some panel of bureaucrats think is the perfect fairness rainbow.

[uncbob]

But one in three applications were turned down in the last three years, leaving patients having to pay up £20,000 for the medication themselves.

At least they will be able to use their own $$$$$$--unlike Americans

[Mygirlsmom]

My father was diagnosed with esophageal cancer at age 58. The surgery was horrible, and he spent weeks in ICU. That was 15 years ago. My girls were babies.

He definitely has life challenges because of what happened -will never be able to lie down flat, must eat at specified times many times per day, and the change to his digestion system causes diabetes-like blood sugar fluctuations. He has suffered from chronic kidney stones since he was a young man. But he's alive, and at 73, he enjoys his many hobbies and lives as normal a life as he possibly can.

Esophageal cancer has a terrible survival rate. Had Obamacare existed 15 years ago, my girls would know their beloved grandfather only through pictures.

[hoosier hick]

These councils would qualify as “Death Councils” in my book. Claims that “it isn’t in the bill” are out-right lies, but even if true, every government-run healthcare system winds up in the same place, just by different roads.

The Obamacare supporters still rely on the belief that “our liberals are smarter than their liberals”.....

hh

[reaganbooster]

In addition, the current health care bill allows the government to snoop into your financial situation via electronic health care records. The health care bureaucrat decisionmakers will be packed with democrat hacks and will have the ability to deny treatments in part based on your perceived political/social status. If you think this is far-fetched, think again. Obama is a liar and his communist buddies in congress will see that this happens.

[ExiledChicagoan]

Rare cancers include pancreatic cancer...
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Not exactly a rare cancer.