3. PC is, IMO, a bore, a passive aggressive, angry narcissist who holds any ideas which does not fit nicely into the box she carries labeled "my dogma" as the product of (pick the pejorative).
PC is a Republican apparatchik, a foot solider who spreads information created by other people. PC is not attempting to reveal all sides of a given debate; this thread is emphatically not an educational exercise; it is pure information control in the service of a political agenda. She doesn't show how the data was collected and interpreted in the Dutch case, nor does she make a connection between the Dutch case and Obama.
Can you imagine if PC all the sudden started reporting objectively on this stuff, rather than clogging the message board with rightwing propaganda? I can see it now. Tomorrow she will provide a detailed analysis of how much money the Health Care Industry has poured into Washington. She will demonstrate how Health Care was the first or second largest contributor to congressional elections, and that with this money they were given a virtual monopoly, such that consumers in say 95% of Iowa only had one health care option. This meant that BlueCross could raise rates & decrease services
without being disciplined by competition, the effect of which was to shrink health care coverage (by making it unaffordable to average people) - the result being a cruel kind of euthanasia by default. And then she will move on to show which prominent Rightwing think tank created "Death Panels" (which, as it turns out, is not a death panel, but an optional counseling session about "end of life" treatment and the selection of medical advocates in the case of incapacitation). That is, she will give us a very detailed exposition on exactly where the "Death Panel" theory came from, and how the concept was not only created by AEI and used by Bob Dole to counter HillaryCare, but - PC will show us - how the rightwing propaganda machine began using the phrase "Death Panel" once Obama adopted this Republican idea, which has nothing to do with state mandated execution. I trust that PC will some day come here not to spread propaganda, but debate actual laws through a direct study of the language of those laws (not merely a cut-&-paste interpretation of those laws by special interests who have a horse in the race).
"And then she will move on to show which prominent Rightwing think tank created "Death Panels" (which, as it turns out, wasn't anything like a death panel, but an optional counseling session about "end of life"......
Now, under the out of use document called the Constitution, the Congress wrote the laws, and the executive branch enforced same....
....but under Obama, he changes laws at will.....ObamaCare, case in point.....some 38 changes by Obama.
So....these may or may not be currently in the 38.1 version, but.....
...just to prove what a dunce you are.....
Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC Bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get
Pg 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your benefits for you. You have no choice!
Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Government will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor affected.
PG 430 Lines 11-15 The government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.
PG 624 "Quality" measures shall be designed to assess outcomes and functional status of patients.
PG 624 "Quality" measures shall be designed to profile you including race, age, gender, place of residence, etc.
Pg 632 Lines 14-25 The Government may implement any "Quality measure" of health care services as they see fit.
PG 633 14-25/ 634 1-9 The Secretary may issue non-endorsed "Quality Measures" for Physician Services and Dialysis Services.
Now to prove that you are a liar, too, this, by Obama adviser Rattner:
"1. "Beyond Obamacare...WE need death panels.
2. ...unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.
3. ...in the pantheon of toxic issues — the famous “third rails” of American politics — none stands taller than overtly acknowledging that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical."
4. Take Britain, which provides universal coverage with spending at proportionately almost half of American levels. Its National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence uses a complex quality-adjusted life year system to put an explicit value (up to about $48,000 per year) on a treatmentÂ’s ability to extend life."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/op...care.html?_r=0