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

To: i-node who wrote (18861)	8/17/2010 5:31:43 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I think its a bit of a stretch to call not recommending a particular drug, an action of and sign of a "death panel", even if it does make the drug more difficult to get (mainly because insurance companies are relatively unlikely to pay for it if it isn't "recommended".) A "death panel" to me is a panel that says "you die" and then it orders you killed or kills you itself. This panel doesn't even forbid the particular drug, or forbid paying for it, it just removes it from the recommended list. That may be a bad thing, but "death panel"??