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To: i-node who wrote (531904)	11/23/2009 1:45:33 PM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575165

No private insurance company would have paid for a PAP under those circumstances. No private insurance would have paid for 25 specialists in this instance. No private insurance would reimburse nerve conduction studies for a patient who is clearly on her death bed as this one was. So do private insurance companies pay for that drug for liver cancer patients to the tune of $400K to extend their lives by 2 months? It's easy to say what they wouldn't pay for when Medicare takes over for them... but you don't know just more asstalk.

To: i-node who wrote (531904)	11/23/2009 1:59:15 PM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575165

It is a fact of life that this is a problem. It is also a fact of life that private insurance would not be paying for the unnecessary crap. Only government run health care (Medicare, in this case) does this. No private insurance company would have paid for a PAP under those circumstances. No private insurance would have paid for 25 specialists in this instance. No private insurance would reimburse nerve conduction studies for a patient who is clearly on her death bed as this one was. Private health care, not government run, runs Part D -- and it is the most fiscally responsible government health care program in the country. If last night's 60 Minutes told us anything it is that we should TOTALLY shut down Medicare and hand over that operation to private enterprise. But...but...but...your republican compadres are the ones going around the country talking about death panels, rationing and pulling plugs on grandma? This must mean that they presumably advocate NO controls on end of life care, no? Al PS: What you wrote is bullshit by the way...