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peacebird
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Sat Jan-01-11 11:19 AM Original message |
"Death panels" are real - brought on by budget pressure by Norman Ornstein |
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FreakinDJ
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Sat Jan-01-11 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
1. Insurance Company run Death Panels |
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bemildred
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Sat Jan-01-11 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
2. It is perfectly obvious that one ought not spend large amounts of money for miniscule benefits. |
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peacebird
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Sat Jan-01-11 11:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. the liver transplant would give him a long healthy life, as would the 6 year olds treatment |
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bemildred
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. You have an interesting notion of "long, healthy life". |
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peacebird
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. a dear friend had a liver transplant back in the late 1980's at 25 and he is still going strong |
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bemildred
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I don't think we disagree. |
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Sat Jan-01-11 11:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yet we can spare no expense when it comes to ending life |
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jody
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Sat Jan-01-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. Consider National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) statement. |
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bemildred
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. A gesture in the right direction, an attempt to define a metric. |
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jody
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Obama has asked for a billion $ to study “Comparative Effectiveness Research”, a cover name for the |
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bemildred
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I suppose it's just out of the question to borrow from the Brits. |
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jody
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Agree. Fact is we can't afford every medical procedure for everyone. IMO we need some version of |
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bemildred
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Sat Jan-01-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Being an old fart myself, I can speak to that. |
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CarmanK
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Sat Jan-01-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. Brewer and the state legislature Denied those Medicaid Pmts! |
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Igel
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Sat Jan-01-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. But that's comparing apples with moments of inertia. |
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