“Can anyone explain me just how 15 members of a Death Panel board will be able to OVERSEE and make judgments on ALL the cases that will come before them.
Death Panel Board just another Government agency, and formed only to HIRE MORE GOVENMENT WORKERS?”
The intention is probably to set policy, not oversee individual cases. Statistics say that (just picking numbers) a hip replacement is not effective after age 75. Therefore, if somebody breaks a hip and they’re 76, they don’t get a replacement. They’re offered palliative care or “managed end-of-life.” Statistics say that treatment of stage (4?3?2?) liver, kidney, bone cancer only ads 3-5 years of life therefore no cancers other than stage 1 are treated if you’re over (55?)
Now, if you’re famous, or a rich contributor, all this goes out the window. An example of how government works in medicine is that the governor of Texas decided that Larry Hagman (the actor) who destroyed his liver through drinking would get a new liver over a Texas Instruments engineer.
Also, there’s a provision in all these plans, England’s, Canada’s and Obamacare, which allows a non-elected appointee to declare that you, John Smith, who writes all those bad things about Obamacare, don’t get any coverage whatsoever. This tends to damp down public dissent.
Based on that alone, it needs to be abandoned.
Has the panel already been manned? I thought I heard it was and there was not a Medical Expert/Dr., on it.
Shades of HITLER. Josef Mengalea lives
An elderly gentleman I know is a victim of the death panel. He's had a bad heart for years and it's about time to replace his pacemaker. He recently received a letter from the insurance company telling him an "independent panel" had notified them he doesn't qualify for it. The fear in his eyes and in his voice as he told me about it was heart-wrenching. He knows it's a death sentence.
Something tells me these Dems have family members who have received similar letters. I can't think of any other reason they'd bring this up.