When insurance companies deny coverage to critically ill patients because of what they deem "pre-existing conditions," they sentence those people to misery and often death. And that has nothing to do with proposed health care reform. This travesty exists now.
When acutely and chronically ill people are unable to purchase medicine because of exorbitant prices, pharmaceutical death panels have spoken. And again, this has nothing to do with universal health care proposals.
When an infant is stillborn because of inadequate or nonexistent prenatal care, a cancer patient forgoes or is denied treatment because of costs, a family is forced to decide whose medical needs will be met -- whose postponed, don't tell me somewhere a death panel isn't at work.
Sarah Palin is supposedly worried that people are going to die if health care reform occurs. They're dying now! Right under our noses!
Instead of what could be, let's talk about what is. Instead of fiction, let's discuss reality. And instead of President Obama responding to wild attacks from fabricators as if deserving of reasoned responses, let's hear him describe the death panels we have now and how much worse it is going to get if only the lucky and the wealthy have health care.
Dr. Reardon also blogs at bardscove.
At least the government ones are afraid of killing old people and the disabled and getting re-elected.... the ones working in the insurance companies now.....find ways to cancel my childs ability to get services!
If the healthcare system has one dollar left to spend, would you spend it ordering an MRI on a terminal cancer patient? Or on a new born baby? Currently, most of healthcare dollars are being wasted in the last days of life. Are we effectively using our current medicaid/medicare health dollars? Has anyone looked at the hospice palliative care movement in america and how much money we are already saving the healthcare system?
Is that so wrong? Death panels do exist and they are a necessary part of healthcare.
WOOT for Free Market Death panels!!!!
Those who cannot get insurance may get some relief, but it will still be insurance at an actuarial premium which may reflect the high cost of their care.
Those who want better care are barking up the wrong tree. Those who have no insurance may get better care as they develop health needs, but nothing here will improve health care.
The cost will still have to ration resources, and profiteering will still seem more likely to seek efficiencies than government service bureaucracy will. The hope that the profit will come at the expense of labor, administrative waste and obsolete procedures....instead of patient care...is not being addressed except by the public option.
I have a client that went to 2 different ERs with a ruptured ovary. because it wasn't killing her RIGHT THEN, she was sent home. BTW, she lost her job and home and had to move her family in with her sister in law.
It is a tough thing for an Administration to reconcile principle with entrenched interests.
Hopefully principle will win.
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My guess is that they're waiting to hear what's in it for them, then maybe they'll cool down.
The rest of the ruckus is reactionaries spoiling for a fight with liberals. Health care is currently the proximate engagement, and the more violent it gets the more they will rally about their fear and loathing.
This new health reform is mainly geared for the middle class workers that NOW need government assistance for those that can't afford health insurances thru their company. Existing ills will not be turned down as they are presently.
As Obama stated...But if you already have insurance with your company you can keep it, the only difference will be is that it your premiums will not go up each year, and that's a good thing.
These wealthy people (that make over 250-thousand) in our society today seriously don't want to help pay into this health reform, they just don't care for the 50 million middle class people.
My guess is that they're waiting to hear what's in it for them, then maybe they'll cool down.
The following listed that already are government programs that has nothing to do with Obama's 'health reform'...:
Health costs NOTHING for those on Welfare-therefore it's a done deal matter for them, they have 'Medicaid'; a government program, which many abortions have been paid for in the past...nothing to do with abortions as they rant and rally about it.
Medicare; as we know, is government program for seniors, and that's a done deal as well, and lastly; disability insurance for those disabled (any age) another done deal government program that has nothing to do with the new health care reform.
This new health reform is mainly geared for the middle class workers that NOW need government assistance for those that can't afford health insurances thru their company. Existing ills will not be turned down as they are presently.
But if you already have insurance with your company you can keep it, the only difference will be is that it your premiums will not go up each year, and that's a good thing.
These wealthy people (that make over 250-thousand) in our society today seriously don't want to help pay into this health reform, they just don't care for the 50 million middle class people.
My guess is that they're waiting to hear what's in it for them, then maybe they'll cool down.
The real reform solution that saves money/lives and is not wasteful tax spending
would be HR-676.
http://www.pnhp.org/