Death Panels: Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You

Yesterday the left wing smear group, the New York Times, published an article on cutting care to cut costs.

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"Managed care became loathed in the 1990s. The recent recommendation to reduce breast cancer screening set off a firestorm. On a personal level, anyone who has made a decision about his or her own care knows the nagging worry that comes from not choosing the most aggressive treatment.

This try-anything-and-everything instinct is ingrained in our culture, and it has some big benefits. But it also has big downsides, including the side effects and risks that come with unnecessary treatment. Consider that a recent study found that 15,000 people were projected to die eventually from the radiation they received from CT scans given in just a single year — and that there was “significant overuse” of such scans.

From an economic perspective, health reform will fail if we can’t sometimes push back against the try-anything instinct. The new agencies will be hounded by accusations of rationing, and Medicare’s long-term budget deficit will grow.

So figuring out how we can say no may be the single toughest and most important task facing the people who will be in charge of carrying out reform. “Being able to say no,” Dr. Alan Garber of Stanford says, “is the heart of the issue.”
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The key element of this blurb is when he talks about how the procedure will be accused of rationing. He is saying that the plan is so big that cutting care is essential. That the O-care plan won't be sustainable if we don't do something about cutting care. The idea is not everyone is worth the cost. Thus some will die and some will live. Does this sound like 'Death Panels?'

The rationing of patient care will happen. It's not fear mongering. It is simply the fact that some times people are afraid of the truth. Especially career concerned arrogant politicians.

Is it any coincidence that the new 'Medicare Advisory Board' will be in charge of things such as care, and costs?

Of course congress will never pass a bill that has the exact language "death panels." No politician will ever openly say "i'm for death panels that will ration your care!"

So all the people who look at the bill and say "where are the death panels? i don't see them."

You can't just scan it for the words DEATH PANNELS, like theyre gonna be right there in big bold letters. They are buried away tucked inside other provisions such as the Medicare Advisory Board.

Or in Europe The scheme, called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), was designed to reduce patient suffering in their final hours.

This is so that they can help them make those end of life decisions. Or save money.

Under the guidelines the decision to diagnose that a patient is close to death is made by the entire medical team treating them, including a senior doctor.

Death panels will never carry the title or look anything like it, but they will be pop out of nowhere and pull the plug. Not many people would challenge an Elderly Care Committee. Yet in a bill designed to cut costs? Sounds very suspicious.

You have been warned. Death Panels: Coming soon to a hospital, near YOU.