Comments on: PALIN IS RIGHT ABOUT DEATH PANELS

By: Geoff G.

Geoff G. — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:44:15 +0000

By your standards, private health insurance is running death panels right at this very moment.

Let’s suppose that you are “covered” by the private insurer of your choice.

Let’s further suppose (God forbid) that you are diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that is generally untreatable.

Let’s further suppose that there’s an expensive experimental treatment that might (say 10% chance) extend your life by two or three years.

Guess what? Medicaid probably won’t cover it. Neither will the NHS in the UK. And neither, incidentally, will your private insurer.

And that’s a good thing in general. Odds are that they’d simply be flushing money down the toilet. Which would result in higher premiums (in a private system) or higher taxes (in a public one).

If I’m paying for health care coverage (public or private), I don’t want it covering procedures that don’t work because paying for failure is expensive. I want it paying for treatments that are…(wait for it)…effective. Hence Effectiveness Research.

There’s actually a larger point here. Often there is more than one way to address a medical problem. To make a trivial analogy, I can get rid of a headache by spending $150 at a luxury spa and getting a nice deep tissue massage. Or I can take a couple of aspirin for 10 cents. Both will be effective. Personally, I think it’s worthwhile looking into which treatments are the most cost effective.

Will someone please tell what’s conservative about shoveling money into medical procedures that cost more and accomplish less? You do understand that that’s what you’re defending here, don’t you?

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:30:08 +0000

David, who signed this into law in Texas?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Directives_Act

“Section 166.046, Subsection (e),[1] which allows a health care facility to discontinue life-sustaining treatment against the wishes of the patient or guardian ten days after giving written notice if the continuation of life-sustaining treatment is considered medically inappropriate by the treating medical team. ”

By: The Strident Conservative

The Strident Conservative — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:12:44 +0000

Obamacare: Bad For Babies – Good For The Environment…

The Obama administration announced a whole new reason to support the messiah’s takeover of the nation’s healthcare system – it’s will help fight global warming!
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By: Lise Quinn

Lise Quinn — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:01:42 +0000

Where is Sarah’s source, where in the bill proposed does it say that health care will be rationed? I challenge you Bob Breslaw, and others to pull actual text from the bill where it says this.

By: Bob Breslaw

Bob Breslaw — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:30:20 +0000

Palin’s right - the old and disabled will be terminated just as sure as those aborted kids already are.

By: Rene

Rene — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:29:52 +0000

Sadly, some don’t realize that she’s right and actually believe the extensive disinformation campaign. They tend to be the more self-absorbed young people who are mad because their freebies are being threatened. They’re the scariest because they don’t want to see the evidence;have no understanding of medicine, history or economics; they aren’t bothered by the corruption among the Czars and legislators behind this legislation or the eugenics beliefs of Obama’s advisors; and are incapable of seeing what’s really going on. They’re real live illustrations of how the Final Solution came to be so readily.