Sarah Palin vs. Dr. Death

[BMT (RIP)]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/sarah_palin_vs_dr_death.html

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BMT

[jw74]

Thanks for posting that BMT,

from the article: "And Zeke knows smart -- he went to Harvard, you know"

The awe that society reserves for ivy league college attendants is misplaced. there is a big difference between an "education" and LEARNING.

[Pete]

The Truth hurts sometimes.

If your Doc says you need a treatment or you will die and it gets kicked over to a panel of bean counters who say "No, costs too much." Then that is a "Death Panel".

Some will then argue that it happens that way in some cases today.

The difference is today most people can go another route, change providers, get a second opinion, etc, etc.

With Government care the word of the "Death Panel" will be final, no appeal, just drag your body out under the tree in the back yard and wait for death to take you.

This is America for Christ's sake. What's with the "I got to die so my grandkid can see a Doctor?" like it is in Canada or England.

[Abu-Shakra]

Payback's a bitch.

[VAKEMP]

This article reminds me of something I heard on the news this morning (FOX, I believe). They had an expert on that said preventive care is not cost beneficial. The gist of the story was that it would be cheaper not to treat those with diabetes and let them die instead of treat them, because the longer they live the more it will cost to keep them alive.

I heard it in the background on TV, but I'll see if I can find a link for it.

EDIT: Ok, I didn't find a link to the exact story on FOX News, but the below article basically says the same thing (though leaves out the 'better to let them die' remark I heard this morning):

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/01/no-savings-in-preventive-medicine-study/


No savings in preventive medicine: study
posted at 9:30 am on September 1, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Barack Obama has insisted that his overhaul of the health-care system will pay for itself and save money, largely through bigger and supposedly more efficient preventive care. His favorite example for this paradigm is diabetes, a disease that requires a lifetime of maintenance care, usually aggressively approached. However, the National Diabetes Foundation’s new study on aggressive maintenance shows that, while the approach works well in controlling the disease, it does not save money except for the youngest of patients...

[Pete]

Sentenced to death on the NHS

Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6127514/Sentenced-to-death-on-the-NHS.html


".....Dr Hargreaves said that this depended, however, on constant assessment of a patient’s condition.

He added that some patients were being “wrongly” put on the pathway, which created a “self-fulfilling prophecy” that they would die.

He said: “I have been practising palliative medicine for more than 20 years and I am getting more concerned about this “death pathway” that is coming in.

“It is supposed to let people die with dignity but it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

“Patients who are allowed to become dehydrated and then become confused can be wrongly put on this pathway.” .........."

See what we have to look forward to.