GOP death panels

[Harry Hope]

http://www.projo.com/opinion/editorials/content/ED_deathpanel31_12-31-10_I2LK4D6_v39.86f1b6.html

Friday, December 31, 2010

Editorial: GOP death panels


During the long and unpleasant debate over health-care reform, Republicans made much of the erroneous allegation that what they call “ObamaCare” would somehow establish “death panels” to determine whether a patient should receive expensive care that could keep him or her alive. Or, to be more precise, whether government or an insurance company would pay for it.

Of course, we have long had death panels –– presided over by the highly profitable insurance companies (who financed much of the last GOP campaign) that decide whether they will cover this or that procedure — that is, if the patient has insurance at all. If not, then a person can hope that tax money via Medicaid or Medicare would pay for at least some of it.

But actually, we do have “death panels” going strong in Republican-run Arizona! There the state-run Medicaid program is stopping the state funding of some transplant programs, leaving around 100 patients to die because the Republican governor and GOP-run legislature don’t want to raise taxes. These are patients who either cannot get insurance coverage because of pre-existing conditions (something that will be fixed by “ObamaCare”) or are simply too poor to buy it.

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The idea of raising taxes to cover such medical woes (or do anything else) is anathema to the GOP. And, after all, most voters, especially Republican voters, have insurance; they’re all set, or they think they are.

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Same old Republican deadly hypocrisy

Harry

[FreakinDJ]

1. #1 political lie of the year

[Frustratedlady]

2. In this morning's paper, there was an editorial by Cal Thomas touting Palin

for being right in warning us about death panels and that our government is "to pay doctors to advise patients on options for ending their lives. These could include directives to forgo aggressive treatment that could extend their lives. This rule will inevitably lead to bureaucrats deciding who is "fit" to live and who is not..."

It later says.."It will all be dressed up with the best possible motives behind it and sold to the public as the ultimate benefit. The killings, uh, terminations, will take place out of sight so as not to disturb the masses who might have a few embers of a past morality still burning in their souls. People will sign documents testifying to their desire to die, and the government will see it as a means of "reducing the surplus population," to quote Charles Dickens."

http://www.calthomas.com/index.php?news=3126

Creepy guy.