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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: longnshort who wrote (11248)11/12/2009 7:00:32 AM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
so if the doctor dies because that panel says he has to ration the shots to other people, that's not a death panel ??

What are you talking about? The protocol includes inoculating health care providers so the doctor will be vaccinated. They make health care providers a priority group because health care providers are very vulnerable due to increased exposure and because the system cannot afford to risk even more lives when for health care officials are be home sick during a pandemic rather than on the job treating the afflicted.

You haven't answered my question. What would you recommend doing as an alternative to "death panels"? Under conditions of shortage, do you form a "death panel" and determine which populations make the most sense to inoculate? Or do you let the market take care of it bidding up the price until enough people drop out of competition for the vaccine? Or maybe you do first-come-first-served with people queuing up until the vaccine runs out? What would you recommend? If you're so set against government identifying which populations get the shortage product, how would you proceed.

Whatever path is chosen, people will die. What does it matter if a public health panel picks populations to inoculate or if some other strategy is chosen? Someone is deciding who gets inoculated. So you still have a "death panel" of one. Under conditions of shortage, there will always be a "death panel" of some sort. It's inevitable. So why rail against it?
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