Death Panels

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

You think the baby boomers retiring, the government taking over medical insurance, and illegals flooding the border are unconnected?
 
Maybe you libtards should try opening your eyes once in a while. 

 

[SparrowHawk]

Anytime you have finite funding of something you end up with rationing. Basic laws of economics. 
 
So if you ration any good or service, some people are going to go without that good or service or bribe their way into getting that goods or services they feel they require.
 
If the Goods and Services are Health Care related some will be denied and some as a result will die.

 

[Dog Wonder]

You think the baby boomers retiring, the government taking over medical insurance, and illegals flooding the border are unconnected?

You left out global warming.

 

[delldude]

Do you have one single instance where a government that allows euthanasia has condemed a person against their will to death? One example. I have not even bothered to look because I am betting that you cannot even come up with one.

If you look (I know it's a stretch) but I know you will find tons of examples where an insurance company has denied treatment to a person who has paid for insurance.

 
(Reuters) - The Ebola crisis is forcing the American healthcare system to consider the previously unthinkable: withholding some medical interventions because they are too dangerous to doctors and nurses and unlikely to help a patient.
 
U.S. hospitals have over the years come under criticism for undertaking measures that prolong dying rather than improve patients' quality of life.
 
Officials from at least three hospital systems interviewed by Reuters said they were considering whether to withhold individual procedures or leave it up to individual doctors to determine whether an intervention would be performed.
Ethics experts say they are also fielding more calls from doctors asking what their professional obligations are to patients if healthcare workers could be at risk.
 
The possibility of withholding care represents a departure from the "do everything" philosophy in most American hospitals and a return to a view that held sway a century ago, when doctors were at greater risk of becoming infected by treating dying patients.
"This is another example of how this 21st century viral threat has pulled us back into the 19th century," said medical historian Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan.   
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-health-ebola-usa-interventions-idUSKCN0IB2OM20141022

 

[Dog Wonder]

Sarah Palin, Ebola, and Paranoia all mixed up.

 

[Ms Tree]

Sarah Palin, Ebola, and Paranoia all mixed up.

Trifecta.

 

[delldude]

Soon to be reality......LOL
 
After Ebola, cancer?

 

[delldude]

Sarah Palin, Ebola, and Paranoia all mixed up.

 
Interesting even from Info......
 

 

 
James Lawrenzi, DO, who has two clinics in Garden City and Archie, Missouri, appeared on the Alex Jones Show today to warn that the true scale of the situation was being deliberately downplayed. It is important to note that none of these potential Ebola outbreaks occurred at the clinics in which Lawrenzi works.
Lawrenzi said that shortly after the arrival of patient zero – Thomas Eric Duncan – in the United States, he was told by a doctor at Truman Lakewood Medical Center in Kansas City they had taken in a possible Ebola patient who had a high fever and was bleeding out of all his orifices having recently returned from West Africa.
                                                                                      
The following day, Lawrenzi was told by the doctor that the patient had “disappeared” against medical advice, but that he wouldn’t have been able to leave on his own given his medical condition.
 
The day after the patient disappeared, a meeting was called for anyone who had contact with the patient. Doctors and other medical workers were told that the patient had malaria. Lawrenzi also revealed that drug reps from within the area warned over additional possible Ebola cases in the area.
A second possible Ebola patient was then admitted to Research Medical Center in Kansas City the following day but also quickly “disappeared,” with hospital bosses claiming he had typhoid, according to Lawrenzi.
http://www.infowars.com/medical-professional-health-authorities-covering-up-ebola-cases-in-u-s/

 

[Dog Wonder]

Interesting even from Info......
 

Next week. Zombies.

 

[delldude]

Name changed to protect stupid American voters.
 

 
The US Preventive Services Task Force is an independent body authorized by Congress to make “evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, or preventive medications.” And since the onset of Obamacare discussions, the Task Force recommendations for treatment and screening have become less and less generous. In November 2009, the Task Force recommended that mammography for women every other year between the ages of 50 and 74. They admit that they have insufficient information to suggest that it would be fruitless to screen after 74, and they say that case-by-case screenings should take place before 50.
 
The Mayo Clinic, by contrast, recommends annual mammograms for women above age 40; so too does the American Cancer Society. As Dr. Sandhya Pruthi of the Mayo Clinic writes, “Findings from a large study in Sweden of women in their 40s who underwent screening mammograms showed a decrease in breast cancer deaths by 29 percent.”
 
Then there are colonoscopies: the Task Force recommends against routine colonoscopies for adults 76 to 85 years of age, and recommends against screening at all beyond age 85. The American Cancer Society and American College of Gastroenterology, by contrast, do not give an age limit for colonoscopies. Medicare, coincidentally, happens not to cover CT colonography but fully covers colonoscopies. A great way to cut costs: tell doctors not to give colonoscopies.
 
How about prostate cancer? The USPSTF completely recommends against prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer. Every other major organization says that patients should make that decision with their doctor; the Mayo Clinic recommends “offering PSA screening and DRE annually to men ages 50 to 75 with a life expectancy greater than 10 years.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/11/Death-panels-coming