we are advancing in another direction.
Sarah, is and always has been, the “Anti-Obama”.
I found it a bit disturbing, yet bracing, that it was SHE
who was given the task of going after Obama during the campaign, while McCain’s task seemed merely “to lose”.
This bill AS A WHOLE should be rejected, with no compromise.
NO COMPROMISE.
The fact that they backtracked on some end-of-life verbiage means nothing; it only ensures that more stuff we don’t like is likely to remain IN the bill.
It has to be REJECTED IN TOTO.
NEVER FORGET just what it was they tried to foist on the entire nation from the get go. THAT is what they should be
called on.
The obligation to participate in biomedical research.
G. Owen Schaefer, Ezekiel J . Emanuel, Alan Wertheimer.
JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association.
July 1, 2009 v302 i1 p67(6).
Abstract:
The article discusses the need for biomedical research to be looked upon as an obligation, that is available to every individual, whether they want it or not. Individuals should participate in such research in order to help make the society and community a healthier and long lived community.
Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions.
Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, Ezekiel J . Emanuel. The Lancet. Jan 31, 2009 v373 i9661 p423(9).
Author's Abstract:
Allocation of very scarce medical interventions such as organs and vaccines is a persistent ethical challenge. We evaluate eight simple allocation principles that can be classified into four categories: treating people equally, favouring the worst-off, maximising total benefits, and promoting and rewarding social usefulness....
We recommend an alternative system -- the complete lives system -- which prioritises younger people who have not yet lived a complete life, and also incorporates prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value principles.
Author Affiliation:
(a) Department of Bioethics, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
What are bioethicists doing about health care reform?
Ezekiel J . Emanuel. The Hastings Center Report. March-April 2008 v38 i2 p12(2).
[snip]
True universal coverage--covering 100 percent of the population--requires significantly changing the health care financing system. In particular, it requires disconnecting coverage from employment and any income-indexed eligibility requirements. Without such a separation, some people will refuse to pay, and others will be excluded because they cannot pay. Even in the Netherlands, where the population is more compliant and easier to oversee, a similar mandate with subsidies for two-thirds of the population still leaves 1.5 percent of the population uninsured. In this regard, single-payer plans have it right--true universal coverage requires a single-payer financing system. In the current U.S. health care system, this would mean eliminating employer-based coverage as well as government programs, such as Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, that have income eligibility limits.
[snip]
This means nothing short of eliminating the fee-for-service reimbursement system, which is purely quantity-driven. It also requires routine monitoring and reporting patient outcomes. Again, these are hardly easy reforms.
Sarah just turned on the light, and the Democrat cockroaches are scrambling.
It has been posted before but bears repeating. She has accomplished more just from her Facebook entries than ANYH of the worthless GOPers who are cowards, everyone of them. Exceptions? Where? I see no one and standing for what is right and taking the fight to the enemy like Sarah is doing. Not one.
She is taking this fight right to the top POINT BY POINT. No one else is.
we are advancing in another direction.
democrat DEATH PANELS
God Bless this woman!! SHE has more cajones than all of our Republican (yes I said Republican) Congress put together. At least the RATS are out there with their lies but I see only a few Republicans trying to enlighten us. Obama’s DEATHCARE will KILL US!
“Complete Life System.”
with chapters on “Existence without Life”
“Life not Worthy of Life”
What’s this about “Never again”?
The socialists are going into exorcist-style headspins over their death panels being discovered and they are doing everything possible to hide the evidence or discredit it.
One can only gasp at the concept of a government beurocracy-run death panel evaluating the worth and quality of one's life in socialist terms of value to the state.
Even worse, one can guess at the level of competence of such a panel, awarded the assignment for service to the socialist state and party. Unworthy of any true productive post, yet in control of the destiny of millions of productive American citizens who will have years of quality life cut short for no good reason.
Randy: "Sorry, Grandma dies..."
Paula: "You touched me, the photos of your grandchildren and their Christmas sweaters? Such beautiful memories, but...you die."
Simon: "Uhng, does it get any more cliche than this? Chocolate chip cookies and brownies for the kids? It's like one vomitous sugar-overload. Just die already!"
and Sarah also wrote ...
...” The president is busy assuring us that we can keep our private insurance plans, but common sense (and basic economics) tells us otherwise. The public option in the Democratic health care plan will crowd out private insurers, and that’s what it’s intended to do. A single payer health care plan has been President Obama’s agenda all along, though he is now claiming otherwise. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what he said back in 2003:
{“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan.... A single payer health care plan – universal health care plan – that’s what I would like to see.” ]
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Sarah is articulate and clear about the facts in the bill.
Pay attention to everyone.
also from a previous posting by Sarah
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“In the legislation that has been reported we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount. And on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.” [7]
Dr. Elmendorf went on to note that this health care legislation would increase spending at an unsustainable rate.
Our nation is already $11.5 trillion in debt. Where will the money come from? Taxes, of course. And will a burdensome new tax help our economy recover? Of course not. The best way to encourage more health care coverage is to foster a strong economy where people can afford to purchase their own coverage if they choose to do so. The current administration’s economic policies have done nothing to help in this regard.
Health care is without a doubt a complex and contentious issue, but health care reform should be a market oriented solution. There are many ways we can reform the system and lower costs without nationalizing it.
The economist Arthur Laffer has taken the lead in pushing for a patient-center health care reform policy. He noted in a Wall Street Journal article earlier this month:
“A patient-centered health-care reform begins with individual ownership of insurance policies and leverages Health Savings Accounts, a low-premium, high-deductible alternative to traditional insurance that includes a tax-advantaged savings account. It allows people to purchase insurance policies across state lines and reduces the number of mandated benefits insurers are required to cover. It reallocates the majority of Medicaid spending into a simple voucher for low-income individuals to purchase their own insurance. And it reduces the cost of medical procedures by reforming tort liability laws.” [8]
Those are real reforms that we can live with and afford. Once again, I warn my fellow Americans that if we go down the path of nationalized health care, there will be no turning back. We must stop and think or we may find ourselves losing even more of our freedoms.
- Sarah Palin”
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There is BIG TROUBLE IN THE USA!
I’m voting for Sarah, I don’t give a crap who wins the primary. She has more cojones than the entire RNC combined.
Complete Lives System. Notice the subtle but telling difference. It's not the life of the individual that takes priority, but the lives of the collective.
And now Sarah can go after Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) and his bold lies. One-by—one, Sarah, take them down!
Why is it when a conservative calmly and methodically questions the intentions of liberals it's called an attack?
Is there a link for “Complete Lives System”?
Ezekiel Emanuel advocated DEATH PANELS -—THIS YEAR
Article in Lancet, January 2009:
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/PIIS0140673609601379.pdf
Palin’s fantastic. I got the tip-off from Sarah’s page. I’m a Jindal guy, but Sarah is playing with my affections!
BTTT
Their parents must be very proud.