There is no other way to control medical costs. Lets use Teddy Kennedy and Patrick Swayze as examples.
Glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer are grim diseases. They are a death sentence. In order to prolong what is the inevitable, upwards of $500,000 to $1,000,000 was spent on each of these men to give them one year extra of life. Any prudent public option will have to have a death panel (as Sarah Palin said it, blunt but accurate) to avoid wasting money on lives with no future.
Problem is, people want to live forever. Ted Kennedy had radical surgery to try to extend his life at inordinate tax payer cost. Obama wants to set up "end of life" counseling groups. In order to save money Kennedy should have chosen this than try to live when his diagnosis was so grim. No one save a scant few live over a year with that disease. We will need a death panel to help patients understand the limits of their disease and accept their death rather than waste precious dollars on a life with no future.
If Pres. Obama does not admit his "end of life counseling" panel is really a death panel it is a lie.
edit: Obamacare, not Ogamacare
You stupid tool
Kennedy had GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE
As do ALL the republicans who oppose it.
You want to get better healthcare? FORCE legislators to enroll in the SAME healthcare WE get.
The Constitution demands equal treatment under the law, and congressional healthcare is something they enacted as LAW..
I want what
they get... the best singlepayer healthcare plan in the world.
And suggesting the the counseling portion of the bill... which was ALREADY passed into medicare by REPUBLICANS who AUTHORED it... means death panels is sheer stupidity on its face.
You can not demonstrate one single instance, nor any language in the bill even remotely supporting that statement.
Its just something you are parroting that was made up by a healthcare corporation shill.
Either you Know this is a stupid fear tactic, and are, therefore, irresponsibly amoral...
Or you honestly believe this idiocy, in which case you are unconscionably stupid.
Either way... it reflects pretty badly upon you.