daveman
Diamond Member
It's not when the Hep C the patient has will kill the donor liver.Krugman says what happened to this guy needs to happen all the time.
Does that make it okay in your mind?
It looks like Krugman said:
PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: If they were going to do reality therapy, they should have said, OK, look, Medicare is going to have to decide what it's going to pay for. And at least for starters, it's going to have to decide which medical procedures are not effective at all and should not be paid for at all. In other words, it should have endorsed the panel that was part of the health care reform.
If it's not even -- if the commission isn't even brave enough to take on the death panels people, then it's doing no good at all. It's not educating the public. It's not telling people about the kinds of choices that need to be made. [...]
KRUGMAN: No. Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.
So, we've got to get Medicare under control by deciding "what it's going to pay for...which medical procedures are not effective at all and should not be paid for at all."
AKA "death panels."
Are you arguing that a liver transplant is not an effective procedure?
But, hey...didn't mean to sidetrack from the "eeeeevil conservatives want to kill sick people" circle-jerk. Carry on.