Comments on: END-OF-LIFE COUNSELING: THE GOVERNMENT’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/12/27/end-of-life-counseling-the-governments-conflict-of-interest/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Wakefield Tolbert http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/12/27/end-of-life-counseling-the-governments-conflict-of-interest/#comment-463864 Wakefield Tolbert Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:23:44 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/12/27/end-of-life-counseling-the-governments-conflict-of-interest/#comment-463864 What do you make of this “Medicare for Allâ€? mantra? Seems to me prohibitively expensive, since my understanding is that much of Medicare service is outsourced to help control costs, and is currently confined to a portion of the population, whereas the other portion helps chip into pay; an arrangement that gets radically reworked if you attempt to have all 330 million of us under the Medicare banner.

Also, speaking of claims denial, what is your take, or rather solution, to the very real perception that regardless of what one thinks of the “Death Panels� charge against O-Care and claimed as the Orwellian nightmare scenario under Euro-Canadian care, we actually have that NOW in US care even IF you have fantastic health insurance coverage?

How? Well, insurance companies no more than government will pay for granny forever to “wind down� the clock on an IV or dialysis tree. They, like government, don’t have endless funds to plunk down on the old folks or preemie babies, those with terminal illnesses, et al.

]]> By: glenn http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/12/27/end-of-life-counseling-the-governments-conflict-of-interest/#comment-463089 glenn Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:07:54 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/12/27/end-of-life-counseling-the-governments-conflict-of-interest/#comment-463089 Ludicrous logic. The government is not involved - it is only allowing doctors to be paid for their time. Seems to me that families should know the many options involved so THEY can decide. This is simply an issue of individuals receiving information on which THEY can make decisions - and doctors being paid for their time. Let's stop politicizing it. Ludicrous logic. The government is not involved – it is only allowing doctors to be paid for their time. Seems to me that families should know the many options involved so THEY can decide. This is simply an issue of individuals receiving information on which THEY can make decisions – and doctors being paid for their time. Let’s stop politicizing it.

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