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Sorry folks, Sarah Palin is (partly) right on health care

by 158 | August 20, 2009 at 05:00 pm

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But that should not distract voters from this reality: President Obama has proposed a new body that would enhance Medicare’s ability to deny care to the elderly and disabled based on government bureaucrats’ arbitrary valuations of those patients’ lives.

Governor Sarah Palin used hyperbolic

words but what she said was mostly

true. under this plan bureaucrats could

in effect decide who will get treatment

and who will die.

IMAC’s unelected bureaucrats [interpretation] of “reasonable and necessary.”[care] Obama places no such restrictions on IMAC. Unless Congress rejects IMAC’s recommendations within 30 days, they would become law. The administration would have license to implement them “notwithstanding any provisions of this Act or any other provisions governing the Medicare program.”

I recently read of a former mayor who

had $1million in medical costs for a heart

problem over 5 months. He had private

insurance but what if he was on public

health care?Could we spend this much on

everyone who has serious health problems?

If we do the deficit would go from $2 trillion

to $5 trillion.

Whatever one thinks of Sarah Palin should not distract from this truth: President Obama proposes to let government bureaucrats decide who gets medical care and who does not.

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158

at 17:38 on August 20th, 2009

To be able to pay for this reform there must be some limits on care.

The question is who decides, bureaucrats or doctors.

albertacowpoke

at 17:51 on August 20th, 2009

My friend, bureaucrats provide the funding not the doctors. This debate is just starting to crank up in Canada. The Canadian Medical Association has some real issues with how Health Care is funded in Canada.

Example Mr. Ducket of Autstralia was hired by the Alberta Government to reform how health care is delivered in Alberta. His main aim is to cut expenses.

158

at 18:08 on August 20th, 2009

Maybe the US can learn from Canada.

Expenses must be cut but the question is who decides about providing or denying care, especially million dollar care.

This will be a big issue for both countries.

francislholland

at 18:22 on August 20th, 2009

Government bureaucrats already decide who gets medical care and who doesn't, when they decide who is eligible for Medicaid, based on their income and assets, and who is not. Instead of the decision made based on the likelihood of success a patient might have, the decision is made based on how much money the applicant has in his pocket.