Krugman: Let’s get serious about those death panels
Well, it’s not like we didn’t tell you this was where the left was headed. On This Week’s roundtable, the discussion was serious ways to cut the deficit and the debt. It didn’t take Dr Krugman long to get to the heart of the matter … so to speak.
This bite starts with Ruth Marcus making the case that most people don’t take the debt seriously. She points out that most people are willing to cut everything except “their stuff”. Right on, says Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, adding, now can we have a serious discussion about death panels and a VAT tax?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw4O1Q2ePSs
As we have pointed out before using the term Death Panel (actual term is Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), was never an exaggeration. And as we have pointed out, Medicare has the highest rate of denial when it comes to procedures, not the big bad evil insurance companies. “Left” to their own devices, this is where the progressives would lead us, and may I say, unless the left just goes away, it will remain a part of the agenda.
So, do we need death panels to bring the budget under control?
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Lets see how this works. The death panels withhold treatment and when you die your estate gets taxed at 55%.
Interesting connection TomL.
Makes you wonder why they took all those older, gas guzzling, not quite as safe cars off the road.
By jove tom I think you've got it !
TomL…you get an atta boy for making that connection. The elderly and all their pesky health problems have finally been turned into something lucrative for the government.
If this is the dirty little secret about obamacare, we'd all better be very, very afraid.
It is amazing how the terminology when the Health Bill was simultaneously crammed down our throat and shoved up our astronomy, that the topic was referred to as end of life counseling. When my Miss Sarah declared on her Facebook page that it was Death Panels, she was skewered galore in the media.
How would Reverend Wright say this. "The chickens; have come home; to roost!"
Get your Govt. prescribed Red Pills here, or the Blue Pills. Trust us. We knoooooow what is best for you. Your fellow citizens want that final 55% NOW!
It is amazing how the terminology when the Health Bill was simultaneously crammed down our throat and shoved up our astronomy, that the topic was referred to as end of life counseling. When my Miss Sarah declared on her Facebook page that it was Death Panels, she was skewered galore in the media.
How would Reverend Wright say this. "The chickens; have come home; to roost!"
Get your Govt. prescribed Red Pills here, or the Blue Pills. Trust us. We knoooooow what is best for you. Your Government needs that final 55% NOW!
Been watching: not a peep in media about this. Surprise!
I believe that "end of life counseling" is good. Too bad that "someone" dubbed it "death panels".
When someone else makes the choice if you live or die, it's a death panel.
Counseling is helping YOU decide.
They will be making the decisions on your health care such as whats the cost and how long will it prolong your life. That's a DEATH PANEL
And that is different from what the insurance companies do when they deny coverage? Counseling is helping YOU decide!!
If the insurance companies deny you coverage you can sue to get the coverage. When the government gives you the death penalty you have no recourse.
When it's THAT important, I'd pay w/ my own money! I'd use it instead of suing, spending time in litigation and risking dying while the issue is being dragged thru courts and law offices.
But what about the working poor who can't pay for their care out of pocket? They can get a lawyer thru legal aid.
The working poor cannot afford to pay the insurance premiums. Hence, we have Obamacare.