You can rest assured that the people in Oregon were not sold their publicly funded health care plan on the basis of rationing and “death panels”. That’s exactly what they got though. When a government run health care plan has to decide on whether or not to pay for a cancer patients treatment costing thousands or assisted suicide costing hundreds the choice is easy. Watch this video and see and hear for yourself the results of letting the government decide who gets treatment and who does not.
The person in charge of running Oregon’s plan denies that the letter saying that treatment for the woman’s cancer would be denied, (twice more on appeals), but that the state would pay for her doctor to help her kill herself was just
“an unfortunate interpretation of the letter.”
It was especially unfortunate for her. He went on to explain the way the decisions on health care under a public option are made by saying:
“…. If we invest thousands and thousands of dollars in one persons days to weeks we are taking away those dollars from someone.”
Sounds like rationing to me. When there is a decision made not to treat someone and to let that person die who makes that decision. Oregon has decided it’s not the patient or the doctor… it’s the uhhh lets see what we should call it. The “life panel?” No that’s no good. The uhhh “get the treatment you need panel?” Nope, that won’t do either guess we’ll just have to go with the “DEATH PANEL”. Works for me.
Let The One say what he will about “death panels”, but when government becomes the decision maker YOU BECOME A BUDGET ITEM and your health takes a back seat to the states financial health. Stay on top of this and let your representative know how you feel.
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