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Wayne | 4.21.11 @ 11:38AM
I'll use the term death panel, because that is what it is. The panel would have a mandate to keep the total cost of medicare below a certain limit. The basis of the death panels decision is AGE. So my mother for existence has lived a healthy productive life and is now 92. If she were to come down with any major illness or accident, the death panel would create rules to use her AGE as a reason to not allow her to get the proper treatment. Instead they would prefer a death vigil with morphine to reduce pain.
It is immoral and it is anti-American.
C S Lewis| 4.21.11 @ 1:01PM
First, you have to give Sarah Palin the credit for calling them "Death Panels"....
then we'll talk....waiting.
Brooke| 4.21.11 @ 2:10PM
Give credit where credit's due, Quin. Sarah was right.
Quin| 4.21.11 @ 4:29PM
Actually, I do credit Palin for that. Here's how it came about, though: I drafted two editorials for the Washington Times. This was the second one of them: http://www.washingtontimes.com.....-mandate/. I went further -- either here or at a WTimes blog -- and made reference to Soylent Green. Rush Limbaugh picked up on the subject and did a wonderful job talking about it. Then Palin picked it up from Rush, and she was smart enough to name the problem a "death panel." It was a brilliant stroke. But as even the NY Times noted, the original substance of it apparently emanated from the Wash Times. Would it have made it "big time" without Palin? No. So she deserves most of the credit. And without Limbaugh, obviously it would have gone nowhere. But I am happy to have gotten the ball rolling, albeit without the PR genius that those two added to it.
Brooke| 4.21.11 @ 6:56PM
Obviously Sarah and Rush are among your readers, Quin. Kudos to you.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 4.21.11 @ 2:01PM
A "death panel" which will play God & decide a person has outlived their usefulness to society & should be sacrificed for the good of those still productive is as Wayne put it, immoral & anti-American. It is also sin. God has already pre-determined the exact moment our life here will end & anyone who alters or attempts to alter God's divine plan through sin is playing with fire. The answer to your question Quin would be God. God has the final say in all matters of life & death. It's time the Obama administration got serious about real budget cuts & stopped meddling in matters that are strictly God's province. Unfortunately, the bloodthirsty left seem to want to replace God as the giver & taker of life. Whether it is abortion on demand for children or "death panels" for the elderly & "unproductive". When does the left's thirst for blood end?
Brooke| 4.21.11 @ 2:11PM
Never. They're demonic.
Ken (Old Texican)| 4.21.11 @ 2:39PM
Quin,
I just don't get you guys sometimes. Sarah defined the debate ahead of anybody. She has defined the whole spectrum of problems with this regime ...before anybody. Hell, even Rush has been continually guided by her spot-on observations and lazer-accurate prescriptions.
.....and the rest of you guys burn millions of electrons.....plagarizing her .....and then pursing your lips...and tut-tuting her leadership qualities.
Go back and read her original quote on "death-panels".
In fact, her speech in Wisconsin over the weekend should have ALREADY been the source material for LOTS of TAS columns.
crickets?????
Brooke| 4.21.11 @ 2:51PM
I like Quin, but he's real weak.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 4.21.11 @ 3:14PM
".....and the rest of you guys burn millions of electrons.....plagarizing her .....and then pursing your lips...and tut-tuting her leadership qualities."
I hear you totally Ken. I think it's called being duped by the drive-by media. Pathalogical Republican fear of the drive-by media is making members of the GOP & Republican pundits afraid to embrace Sarah Palin as they were afraid to embrace Ronald Reagan in 1980. They have declared her campaign a loss before she decides to run. Pathetic.
USSAlabama| 4.21.11 @ 3:21PM
Yeah, I think we have to call a spade a spade.
My question is what kind of policy will insurance companies come up with to sell Seniors for the $$ they will get in this plan?
Don't assume it will equate to the current market policies - it won't, and then who will be the death panel? A private insurer refusing to pay.
America has gone over the slope with Senior citizens. They all get sent away when they are inconvenient and once the initial shock of death panels wears off - ie. when a few people feel relief not to have to worry about how to pay the nursing home bill - watch how fast it will be called something else.
Brooke| 4.21.11 @ 3:33PM
It's always about convenience--just like abortion.
Ken (Old Texican)| 4.21.11 @ 4:59PM
Hell,
I would rather quietly die on a stream-bank than have folks bitch about taking care of me.
I guess I'm stupid that way.
Brooke| 4.21.11 @ 6:59PM
Not stupid, Ken, honorable. I feel the same as you except I'd like to go out in a blaze of glory--skydiving or somesuch. :)
Ken (Old Texican)| 4.21.11 @ 5:07PM
Quin,
I owe you an apology. Your editorial DID come out before Sarah's face-book quote... DAMN! She reads after all!
Oldefarte| 4.21.11 @ 5:22PM
Quin, here's my somewhat knowledgable [though not an authority] opinion [from a 35 year liftime of work/paying SS-Medicare etc taxes etc]. First, the beneficiaries of SS/Medicare EARNED same [and paid for it through payroll deductions/premiums throughout their working lives]. Second, the problems with Medicare are no different basically than with health insurance in general. If lawsuit reform/abuse was extracted/eliminated from the arena of health insurance [along with interstate sales of same and technologically inproving the medical industry], there would be far less problems with health insurance. As with everything else, you have the element of indigents who are illerate, don't earn income, and completely depend upon society/taxpayers/government for everything [including health insurance]. IMO if government hospitals were established [similar to the Charity system in the New Orleans area], staffed by interns/residents/government paid medical staffs; and same located throughout the country, this could solve the health insurance needs of the poor-indigent. Regular health insurance/Medicare could therefore be left to those who have/could PAY FOR ITS PREMIUMS THROUGH PRIVATE INSURANCE VEHICLES. The idea of government control of health insurance [or most everthing else] is repugnant and ineffective. You wanted my ideas, and now you have them!!!!!!