Comments on: OBAMA’S BUDGET DIRECTOR EXPLAINS HOW DEATH PANEL WILL RATION HEALTH CARE

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:55:07 +0000

And remember Chicago 1995 heat wave when the health system manifestly failed local citizens and more than 700 died.

By: Nursereese

Nursereese — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:07:31 +0000

BobMan—The people who died in the heat wave of 2003 died because they did NOT seek medical attention and lived independently. NOT the elderly under medical supervision or in nursing homes. (Yes they have nursing homes in Europe, they don’t just cast people into the street to die.)

By: BobMan

BobMan — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:47:48 +0000

We all are the property of the United State of Obama. As property, we have no say in our treatment. Shut up and DIE!

p.s. To Marc Brown, remember France, summer of 2003?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

Hell yes, in Europe, the elderly ARE left to die!

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:02:17 +0000

Actually, the solution to costs is obvious – it’s the administration that is bloated and needs to be drastically pruned, as this article makes clear:

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/04/health-care-administration-source-medical-waste.html

‘For every one doctor there are 5 more are employed to do administrative tasks.’

I’d start with the finance departments – David, please close the door on your way out.

By: Joseph C.

Joseph C. — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:29:19 +0000

“If I were you I’d argue for every American to have a personal life support machine (won’t cost much – only a few trillion) – who knows, you could live much longer but you may just not be awake to know it.”

You’re forgetting the expense of Japanese service robots to attend to 300,000,000 patients. With everyone on vents, there would be no health care staff left to do this. I suppose we could outsource some of this work to moonlighting NHS personnel, but that is the less desirable option because their critical care skills are a little rusty.

By: z9z99

z9z99 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:22:03 +0000

The difficulty of such institutional approaches to cost savings can be illustrated by a simple question: “Is it cost-effective to treat aspiration pneumonia?”

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:57:44 +0000

That’s right David, In Europe, older people are just left to die. Funny that we have longer life expectancies than Americans though. If I were you I’d argue for every American to have a personal life support machine (won’t cost much – only a few trillion) – who knows, you could live much longer but you may just not be awake to know it.