At one time, it would have been none of Dr. Emanuel's business if your physician prescribed the latest medications for you, rather than the cheaper and obsolete medications they replaced. It would have been none of his business if you preferred to have a nice hospital room with "amenities" rather than being in an unsanitary ward with inadequate nursing care, as under the National Health Service in Britain.
The involvement of government gives Dr. Emanuel the leverage to condemn other Americans' choices — and a larger involvement of government will give him the power to force both doctors and patients to change their choices.
As for a "death panel," no politician would ever use that phrase when trying to get a piece of legislation passed. "End of life" care under the "guidance" of "some independent group" sounds so much nicer — and these are the terms President Obama used in an interview with the New York Times back on April 14th.
Anyone wishing to revise America's medical system and model it after Britain and Canada ought to thoroughly examine how these health care systems function before plunging into the same pool. A reasonable conclusion is that these systems require long waits and treatments (if you can get them) that are inferior to the U.S., based on government "guidelines" that frequently approve care only if the patient is deemed "worthy of the investment."
As a symbol, Adolf Hitler has been overused, but the philosophy behind the horrors he unleashed can be found in the beliefs of some of those who would use the power of the state to determine who gets help and who doesn't.
El Campeador has this little bit of 'fluff' from FoxNews, about the FABulous care you'll get when we're all covered by British-style "health" care.
Charlotte, of Oswestry, Shropshire in England, was prescribed Tamiflu via the flu hotline, but when she didn’t feel any better, she was admitted to the hospital on July 29 where she died two days later after her lungs collapsed.The 16-year-old girl died after being misdiagnosed with the H1N1 virus, when she really had tonsillitis, London’s Daily Mail reported.
Charlotte Hartey’s condition was diagnosed over the phone, like many other H1N1 viruses in the United Kingdom, but when complications arose from Charlotte’s real affliction – tonsillitis – the teenager died.
A post-mortem exam showed Charlotte died from “natural causes.”
Remember - BarryOCare will give you EXACTLY what the British people get. Aren't you excited??? YES WE ARE!
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I kinda like UK Woman Gives Birth on Pavement After Being Refused Ambulance to Hospital
Better ending, to say the least! Thanks, Swampie.
Well, a better ending if you like delivering a baby on the sidewalk with a random passerby delivering baby and untangling the cord from around the neck. It could have ended in death for the baby. I'm glad that mother didn't die, otherwise nobody would know about the "health care" she got.
Coulda been just as bad, but the baby and mother LIVED in the story you give. Which is a MUCH better ending. Of course, mothers and babies DID manage without "health care" for many many generations before society convinced them they couldn't get along without their government, but I think we make the same point - this is NOT what we want as our 'norm' and it IS the model BarryO and His Merry CongressWeasels are using as an example of what they want to inflict upon us. While stories like this are not unheard of, they should be VERY RARE in 'civilization.'
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