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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Mon Aug 10, 2009 at 18:37:08 PM MST
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A little reminder of why health care reform is important, and why the lies about reform are important:
Don't talk to me about death panels, Sarah Palin....
In your free market wonderland everyone somehow manages to get healthcare, even those who are poor or live in isolated areas, though the poor and isolated in your own state required assistance from the federal government.
And despite all of this, you appear blithely unaware that the free market healthcare system we have now does, indeed, have "death panels." I've been part of a death panel conversation. I know about death panels.
You have no idea what it's like to be called into a sterile conference room with a hospital administrator you've never met before and be told that your mother's insurance policy will only pay for 30 days in ICU. You can't imagine what it's like to be advised that you need to "make some decisions," like whether your mother should be released "HTD" which is hospital parlance for "home to die," or if you want to pay out of pocket to keep her in the ICU another week. And when you ask how much that would cost you are given a number so impossibly large that you realize there really are no decisions to make. The decision has been made for you. "Living will" or no, it doesn't matter. The bank account and the insurance policy have trumped any legal document.
If this isn't a "death panel" I don't know what is.
H/t, digby, who adds this:
...since Good People, Real Americans, have health insurance, only bad people have to worry about this, which is how it should be. The problem is that if the government takes over they're going ration by taking away the Good People's health care and giving it to welfare queens and illegal immigrants who don't deserve it.
(All Good People have health are? Maybe not. Or maybe Good People solicit donations after mauling ministers...er, I mean, after a mauling by union "thugs"...though he looked pretty sprightly after the "attack." Funny how he's wheelchair bound and unable to speak the next day? D*mn those lingering funny bone injuries...) |
| Jay Stevens :: The real death panel |
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