"The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for medicare and determing which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.
---Howard Dean, former DNC Chair (7/29/2013)
Looks like another broken promise. What do we do now?
Without coming out and calling them death panels, Howard Dean expressed the same exact concern that Palin did.
The left is quick to dismiss the fact that government bureaucrats will act as death panels, for all intent and purposes. What they will do is deny treatment by making certain treatments too expensive. This is by design. If anyone believes that Obamacare is really about health care, you will be in for a shock.
It's about controlling our daily lives, our money and there is some gun control in there, too. Doctors are starting to ask people if they own guns. There is also a push from Big Pharms on depression meds. The number of television and radio ads have increased dramatically. Big Pharms tend to buy the loyalty of doctors by giving them expensive equiptment in exchange for the doctors pushing their drugs. Doctors are starting to ask more questions about our mental state, which is something a specialist, not a regular doctor, would need to determine. However, if they can find reason to prescribe any kind of anti- depressant, you might get a visit from authorities to confiscate your weapons.
Obamacare is also about a pet project of the far left, population control. How many millions will be denied lifesaving care due to age or cost? People over 75 are likely to be deemed a waste of money should they come down with a serious illness or need hip replacements. With the government and it's agencies having full access to all of your personal information, there is no telling what they will base the decision on when they are deciding life and death situations on your behalf.
What Palin said about death panels:
Now first, let's be clear about why Palin called it that. She
did not claim that a line item in the law convenes a hooded panel to sit and pronounce death on people.
What she said was that the IPAB, with its power to set rates, would be able to effectively price certain treatments and services out of existence, at least for most people. And the power to do this would serve as an effective death penalty for an awful lot of people.
What Dean said about it:
The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body.
By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.
There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system. However, rate setting—the essential mechanism of the IPAB—has a 40-year track record of failure. What ends up happening in these schemes (which many states including my home state of Vermont have implemented with virtually no long-term effect on costs) is that patients and physicians get aggravated because bureaucrats in either the private or public sector are making medical decisions without knowing the patients. Most important, once again, these kinds of schemes do not control costs. The medical system simply becomes more bureaucratic.
Both Palin and Dean are correct. Question is, will the Dems have the courage to stop this disaster from being fully implemented?
Using different words, Howard Dean agrees with Palin on death panels
Politics: Those ObamaCare death panels are kind of a problem, says . . . Howard Dean? | CainTV
