My grandmother used to say this to me, and I bet some wise member of your family has said it to you:
"Use your head for more than a hat rack."
I am absolutely dumbfounded by the gullibility of the American populace. How can anyone believe, in any part of their rational brain that there will be "death panels" in Obama's health care reform? What planet do you live on?! This is AMERICA!
I can't believe the horseshit that citizens are willing to embrace & promote without question when it is so utterly ridiculous. Next thing we will here is that the Obama plan allows for a version of Soylent Green to feed the hungry masses. Insanity!
Attention right wing maniacs!
Social Security & Medicare are SOCIALIST by definition, and seen by most as entitlements of a leading democratic nation. Why aren't you declaring anarchy over these? Why aren't you demanding that these programs, in the name of Democracy, be ended immediately?! How is it you are so blinded by hate that you can't reasonably (hell...I would settle for unreasonably) see they hypocrisy in the words that fall so carelessly and vehemently from your mouth?
How can so many otherwise highly intelligent Americans be so dumb?!
Why again is single payer evil?
I think it's the best option out there. This is such a simple plan, and a brilliant solution to our insanely expensive, and sub-standard health care system. Take the GREED & CAPITALISM out of the Doctors offices, off the tarmac of the emergency helicopter pad, and out of your personal health decisions. Single payer, and for that matter, the hybrid that we are exploring doesn't deny care, it doesn't force you to kill your elderly parents; it does nothing of the sort. What it does is forces DRUG, INSURANCE, & Other providers to compete reasonably with a non-profit entity with real purchase power!
People worry about quality of care, when they are NOW turned away for procedures by their own insurance provider. People worry about quality of care, when they could NOW be dropped by their provider for a pre-existing condition. People are worried about so many things that may happen; without even the slightest concern for all the things that are currently happening in the existing system.
"Death Panel?"
Already exists. It's called the underwriter at your insurance company. This persons job is to decide the cost of denying care versus providing it. Take smokers. Why on Earth aren't smoking secession drugs covered in America by any insurance? Simple math. They don't want to spend their money on your addiction because if you are one of the ones that gets lung cancer, they have figured out that the cost of your short battle (which you will statistically lose) with cancer will cost less than providing every smoker in the system with the drugs to help them quit. Wellness is MORE expensive in this model than the chances of terminal cancer. So the mathematician, statistician, and health care executive choose DEATH over prevention.
"Death Panel?"
Already exists. It's your insurance company, or your future company, that finds out you had a pre-existing condition that lead to your massive heart attack, and thereby you are either ineligible for benefits, or are dropped from coverage altogether. Now you must decide to die without care, or put you and your family into EXTREME debt to pay for your life.
"Death Panel?"
Already exists. You end up with a rare disease that is only being treated by a procedure, successfully even, that your insurance provider has classified as "experimental" and thereby won't authorize treatment. That is death, from a panel, at your OWN...EXISTING...INSURANCE!
Why aren't Democrats answering charged levied at these town hall meetings with answers like this. This is such a simple plan, and one that had popular support in MASSIVE numbers ever so recently in the past. The Democrats are losing control of the message, and the fear mongering from the GOP is working on the lest critical of the thinkers in our midst. The MONEY of the industries to be effected is being directed to once again deny coverage! That's right, they are using the MASSIVE profits they gain from denying you coverage to make sure they still have the RIGHT to make a life or death decision based on statistics, not the human being that paid for their protection. How is this OK? How are Americans falling for this crap?
We are ranked 37th in the world on Health care. How do these idiots see 37th as the "BEST" in the world? 37 does not equal 1! Even a second grader knows that. Yet, countless misinformed, and biased Americans are out there demanding they "want their country back!" From who!? We just got it back from the worst president in our collective memory, and in a landslide electoral decision...And you are already ready to go back to the way it was? Where we are spied on, lied into war, and cast aside like trash in the wake of a national disaster? That's what you want back? If you love that so much, perhaps you need to move to a less Democratic "democracy, where insanity rules...I can think of at least one suitable nation for your crazed appeals...I think they will welcome you in North Korea...Otherwise known as Kim Jong Il-land.
Seriously, this rubbish that is being brandied around like it's fact is no better than the state information agencies of so many Free-lite nations around the globe.
Open your eyes America, you are being duped! The great irony, and lasting embarrassment is that the FEARS they are playing to great applause at town halls around the nation are in fact the FACTS of what happens NOW in our present system. The "socialism" thing is a distraction, and nothing more, but an effective one that will shift attention from cost, benefits, and critical discussions of the existing evils of our present so-called health care. The GOP, drug makers, and insurance companies have bated you with their own tactics, re-branded as solutions, when in fact they are the problem.
Stop kidding yourself. The government's job is to protect you. The Insurance companies job is to make a profit, even if it means placing your life before a "death panel" and telling you as you draw one of your final breaths that you are "DENIED!"
Use your heads, engage your brains, and stop the insanity!