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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: longnshort who wrote (25073)	11/28/2012 4:04:43 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

why do you deny the death panels that are coming I haven't denied that they may be coming. It might well come to that. I am asserting that anything reasonably referred to as a "death panel" is not yet part of Obamacare. We may be heading in that direction but we are not there yet. Not even close. Currently payments are being constrained, ostensibly in the interest of forcing quality and productivity improvements. That's all. They will probably be squeezed even harder before the whole thing blows up. But for "death panels" to aptly apply some panel would have to either make certain life-saving treatments illegal, which is a different paradigm entirely, or establish price controls sufficient to dry up supply, which would be an extension of the Obamacare paradigm. Those acts would condemn people to early death, hence the applicability of the term, "death panel." As for the action that supposedly provoked the article you posted, I don't see any indication that the charge that you can't get hospitalized for a broken leg in the same month when you were hospitalized for something unrelated is true. It smells fishy. I can't find anything out there to support the allegation.

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