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

To: TimF who wrote (24453)	8/6/2012 1:27:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

The "laundering money" statement probably refers to winning more pay or more lucrative benefits Perhaps the term could be used that way, but then what does winning lucrative benefits for government employees have to do with bias in health care payments? Whatever could death panels have to do with bias in health care payments? Even if unions make government union members richer and government union members use that added income to lobby for expanded government rather than for bigger TVs or college educations for their kids, you still don't get a mechanism for discriminating in favor of "connected democrats" and against "successful business people" when it comes to approving or disapproving paying for some necessary medical treatment resulting in life or death. That's way beyond wild. The closest you could get is for the panel to establish a policy to not pay for treating some disease that "successful business people" get at a slightly higher rate than "connected democrats," if there is such a thing, which is extremely unlikely.