bounty44
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Right, lets look at FOX news claims: Obamacare includes Death Panels to allow doctors to stop treatment of patients (which is basically illegal, unethical and against their oath as doctors) FALSE. this has been addressed multiple times in media coverage and to say "its wrong" is actually wrong. I posted this sometime last year: "if you have a panel of people that can decide what care critically ill patients can get, and what care they cannot, and care is rationed---“death panel” seems to be an apt euphemism to describe them. If you don’t like it, come up with another moniker that describes their work without glossing over the fact that they actually will have the authority to “condemn” certain patients to death." here is something else I posted (and you were actually in this thread for goodness sake!): quote:
Keep in mind, by the way, that the Liverpool Care Pathway is sort of akin to the IPAB “death panel” in Obamacare. Defenders of government-run healthcare say that’s nonsense and assert that there won’t be any rationing, denial of care, or requirements for euthanasia. That’s technically true, but the Obamacare death panel will be determining what’s an acceptable treatment and what’s the government-approved payment schedule. Crushed by Obamacare? So it’s sort of like holding a rock in your hand, standing over a kitten, letting go of the rock, watching it hit the kitten, but then claiming that you did nothing wrong because gravity caused the rock to fall. Okay, that’s a morbid example, but you get the point. And my concern isn’t that rationing only exists with a government-run system. Any healthcare system will involve rationing. The real issue is whether individuals are part of a free society so they can make the choice of how to ration. http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2012/10/16/another_british_healthcare_horror_story_uk_death_panels as for Obama being a muslim---some people on fox might have believed that, some people on fox did and do not. its called an OPINION. meanwhile, see my other couple of posts here about fox and elsewhere in my posting history for that matter. one gets tired of the baseless partisan griping. oh no comrades, fox news! wahhhh, a news source that shows another point of view besides my collectivist/progressive/leftist one.
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