Are Death Panels Absurd?
or Inevitable?
By Andrew deRenzy
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009, 0:33UPDATE: If you dont think that this radicalism can become the norm look who Obama has buddied up with inside his whitehouse
KATU back in July 2008 Reported:
“I’m not ready, I’m not ready to die,” the Springfield woman said. “I’ve got things I’d still like to do.”
Her doctor offered hope in the new chemotherapy drug Tarceva, but the Oregon Health Plan sent her a letter telling her the cancer treatment was not approved.
Instead, the letter said, the plan would pay for comfort care, including “physician aid in dying,” better known as assisted suicide.
“I told them, I said, ‘Who do you guys think you are?’ You know, to say that you’ll pay for my dying, but you won’t pay to help me possibly live longer?’ ” Wagner said.
And now Sarah Palin, is saying the Health Care Bill has ‘Death Panels’ in it. Surely you can’t be serious! But when you look at the facts of every universal health care system, like above, it doesn’t seem that far off. Rationing of care happens because when you offer something for free, it gets used. And someone has to pay for it, eventually you tax the rich out of being rich and cost cutting takes place. In the above case, they offered a significantly cheaper solution to her problem, to solve their financial problem. The inefficiency of government quickly overtakes any cost saving appearances and unwanted consequences ensue to stabilise the program. No where in this bloated, government bureaucracy bill, does it explicitly put in place a ‘death panel’ it doesn’t however stop decisions being made (on the panel that decides what care your plan covers) based on what is financially expedient for the government.
We cannot allow ourselves to entertain the thoughts of any sort of death decision(or financial rationing) made by the government, it is a conflict of interest. The dangers brought about by any assisted suicide, or death panel system are insurmountable. In Nazi Germany, yes I’m saying it, the question of whether or not to allow assisted suicide quickly changed to, who should over see it, who should authorize it? Finally evolving into who do we need to sterilize, who do we need to put of of their misery, who is burdening society? It will only go there if we allow it, and the American people are letting a resounding “NO” be heard at these town hall meetings. ‘Death panels’ will not happen because this will not pass.
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