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Comment on:
OK, WE'RE RIGHT!
We Need A New Sump Pump: Pelosi Health Care Bill Shows She Cares Little About Draining D.C. Swamp
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 8:02 PM
Rich
writes:
The whole thing is a Death Panel!
We need to remember that the actual “Death Panel” is the WHOLE Obamacare system. What kills people in single payer/socialist medicine systems is the rationing/waiting lists and lack of innovation.
The clowns in DC would not have the guts to actually send some to tell you that you are slated to die – its just done by the use of formulas, regulations, etc that set up who gets priority on the various waiting lists.
The closest approximation to that you might see in the bill would be a group called “Comparative Outcome Boards” or “Health Comminsioners”. Those will be the guys who are empowered to begin the regulations that deny treatments or start rationing.
The whole thing about “end of life” counseling being a paid treatment in HR 3200 is what people usally fixate on but that not the “Death Panel” – again, the WHOLE SCHEME is a virtual death panel but no such board ever exists or notification ever given by a person in the Democrats or other countries government run systems.
Conservatives need to understand this and explain it in this terms or elses its easy for liberals to dismiss the “end of life” counseling as simply paying for a treatment – that just a small, small part of the whole death panel government HC system.
Politicians will always cling to the fiction that “nobody will be denied effective treatment” by simply placing you on a rationing/waiting list without explaination from your provider except maybe “those are the rules”
They will just confuse the issue with clever formulas, boards, etc that will be sent to providers in the form of regulations, rules, treatment protocols, etc that force of law will compell them to follow – you will never see a human face to attribute the denial to as its systemic.
And of course, certain treatments for whatever reason will simply be refused to EVERYONE by the system by being declared “experimental” or “not cost effective”
To remain a free and independent people this MUST be defeated.
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