NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
1a. Here is the very center of ObamaCare, and the basis for its rationing and death panels:
"... comparative effectiveness research is generally code for limiting care based on the patient's age. Economists are familiar with the formula already in use in the U.K., where the cost of a treatment is divided by the number of years (called QALYS or quality-adjusted life years) the patient is likely to benefit. In the U.K., the formula leads to denying treatments for age-related diseases because older patients have a denominator problem -- fewer years to benefit than younger patients with other diseases. In 2006, older patients with macular degeneration, which causes blindness, were told that they had to go totally blind in one eye before they could get an expensive new drug..." The American Spectator : Downgrading American Medical Care
How did "progress" come to mean that human beings are no more significant than a cypher, a number, a bean to be counted?
Is this your 'brave new world?'
Are you arguing for Medicare (and senior Medicaid) funding to be open ended and unlimited??
Well...it seems you are ready to pretend that Obama attempted to sell the scam to the American people, in addition to lies about keeping your plan, and your doctor, and seeing huge reductions in the cost of your policy, the snake oil salesman boasted...
.."And we will reduce costs of healthcare by rationing both access to medical professionals and costly medicines that reduce suffering and prolong life, through the imposition of mandates by Death Panels!"
Did he say that?
That would have been the truth, wouldn't it?
I asked you if Medicare/Medicaid funding should be unlimited.
You didn't answer because the answer would be 'no', and that demolishes your 'death panel' attack because it puts you right on the pro- side of death panels.