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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (12642)12/24/2009 1:53:11 PM
From: Little Joe  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
" don't see how that label can be justified, either. A "death panel" would have to have the authority to deny some treatment that's required to cure or significantly prolong life. No one is remotely suggesting that. We're just talking about rationing payment for a treatment . Under the proposed law, the patient can still get treatment using other resources."

That is odd I have heard them discuss all kinds of things about the bill, a good bit of which are lies, but not a single admission that the bill will ration and in fact they deny it. I can't believe that any rational person would believe that is is right to enact this bill without a thorough discussion of these provisions and how they will be implemented.

As for gettting treatment elsewhere, that is going to be awful hard to do. They will decide what is covered, the costs will be prohibitive to those who are not subsidized. Do you really think that people would be able to afford alternative treatment in addition to paying exhorbitant insurance premiums.

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