To this Ubama administration official: Where to you want your body dumped after you don't get that transplant you needed so bad? The Lake? In some Concrete under a new street?
Or how about you have a nice tall cup of STFU!
Posted on 09/26/2012 9:16:09 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
WE need death panels.
Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.
But in the pantheon of toxic issues — the famous “third rails” of American politics — none stands taller than overtly acknowledging that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.
Most notably, President Obama’s estimable Affordable Care Act regrettably includes severe restrictions on any reduction in Medicare services or increase in fees to beneficiaries. In 2009, Sarah Palin’s rant about death panels even forced elimination from the bill of a provision to offer end-of-life consultations.
Now, three years on, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Paul D. Ryan, has offered his latest ambitious plan for addressing the Medicare problem. But like Mr. Obama’s, it holds limited promise for containing the program’s escalating costs within sensible boundaries.
The Obama and Ryan plans are not without common ground; both propose an identical formula for capping the growth in Medicare spending per beneficiary. And both dip into the same toolbox (particularly lower payments to providers) to achieve a reduction of nearly $1 trillion in Medicare expenditures over the next decade from projected levels.
That’s where the agreement ends. Mr. Ryan believes that meeting the goal over the long term requires introducing more competition into Medicare through vouchers to purchase private insurance.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It's amazing how inconsequential she is.
One can be sure that their Death Panels won’t pertain to the Political Elites and their families just like other dictatorships throughout time! Big Bro and Big Sis’s Death Panels will be for We The People. Re-read your history books and pay attention to the Third Reich.
Get the Federal Government the “H” out of our business, our medical, everything other than what they were designed to do by the Founders. Problem resolved.
To this Ubama administration official: Where to you want your body dumped after you don't get that transplant you needed so bad? The Lake? In some Concrete under a new street?
Or how about you have a nice tall cup of STFU!
Down a slippery slope to Logans Run.
I support euthanisia of all Liberals, by calling it late term abortions.
If health care were not a government expense then the cost os caring for non productive folks would not be a problem for the budget and total costs to the economy would be far smaller. The answer, of course, is to end ALL government participation in and regulation of medicine and insurance beyond FDA type guarantees that what what it says on a label is what is in the product. That is part of the government guarantee of weights and measures.
end-of-life consultations were not OFFERED .... they were mandatory
____ Geez, they can’t help themselves from lying even in an article that is overall trying to sort-of tell the truth.
I don’t like the idea of some government employee deciding who gets what care. But I also know that 40 years ago people weren’t taking all kinds of pills to try to stay alive. I’m not sure dieing gracefully isn’t better than trying to beat the odds. But allow the individual to make that decision.
As for death panels, they already exist, more or less. I know a woman who was sent home from the hospital the other day because Medicare says she can only stay so many days.
In a perverse sort of way he is right. If they can’t control costs by rationing and limiting options the entire system comes apart.
end-of-life consultations were not OFFERED .... they were mandatory
____ Geez, they can’t help themselves from lying even in an article that is overall trying to sort-of tell the truth.
BUT BUT BUT
He said they were only pizza ovens.
This is code for "making sure politicians and their families go to the head of the line."
I want to see the looks on lots of liberals’ faces when they’re told to go home and die.
Death panel admission ping!
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