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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (12241)	12/11/2009 7:53:06 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Just don't call the groups that oversee the withholding of care death panels. There is a lot of space between "Will I be penalized if I order this test?" and a death panel. If you use this exaggerated label now, what label will you have in the future when it actually comes to death panels? I will regard the use the term reasonable only if and when private medicine becomes illegal and some body makes decisions on what tests are authorized. As long as the test is available despite what any panel says, you can't justify "death panels." If you want to assert that ObamaCare could well lead to death panels, I would join your side of the argument. But framing a scenario where a doctor has to consider the implications of ordering a test as evidence of one is way over the top. It's blatant misuse of language.