And conservatives say private health care will keep the decisions out of the hands of bureaucrats...

[Beams1969]

right.....

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/ALS-patient-battles-insurance-company-for-medical-care-86089662.html

This story is about one of my best friend's mother and her husband. If you can help it make the rounds that would be great.

[jody]

1. I lost my wife to cancer after four years of dialysis. Obama opened the discussion on rationing

health care when he used his grandmother as an example.

See DU post 14. But earlier Obama used his grandmother to open debate on rationing health care.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

2. real insurance company death panel caught in the act

Please cut and past this link in an e-mail to all your Republican friends

[northofdenali]

3. K&R, Beams - and welcome to DU.

I'll add this link to my Twitter list. Wow. "Bureaucrats" ALREADY keep healthcare decisions from doctors - my so-called insurance company won't pay for an EGD (esophogeal test) that my doc says I need to have - and I can't afford the $1400 that I'd have to pay for this in-office! test.

Edited to add this epic fail pic of teabaggers protesting health care reform:

[Beams1969]

4. They didn't even make the attempt at having a medical opinion influence their decision

to cut their benefits. Social medicine won't be perfect, but I'll take it any day over for-profit.

Thanks for the responses all.

[toolabard]

5. The price of life

The one thing that stands out in the health care debate, is the price of your life. Any congressmen or insurance bean-counter can tell you exactly what your life is worth. Nothing personal, it's just business. As long as you have money,you have health care.
This rises the question, is it possible the right-wing health care industry is systemically eliminating the middle class by rising health care to the point where only the rich survive? OK, I admit this sounds crazy, but it sure looks like only the rich will survive. Look at it another way, when your out of money, your out of rights.
I realize that affordable health care may never happen. But I will be willing to go down the tubes for this bill if all it does is kick the murderous health industry in the nuts!!

[murphyj87]

6. Sarah Palin

OTTAWA — Sarah Palin should listen to her mother.

That was the advice from one MP Tuesday following the former U.S. vice-presidential hopeful’s revelation that her parents had sought medical treatment from the Canadian health-care system she has so often criticized.

“Of course her parents chose Canada for health care, it’s the best health-care system in the world,” said NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis. “Too bad Sarah Palin doesn’t realize it now.”

The comment came after Palin told a Calgary audience Saturday night that her family had first-hand experience with Canada’s health-care system when she was growing up in Skagway, Alaska, near Whitehorse.

“Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing, and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada,” Palin was quoted as saying by The Canadian Press.

Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, who is also a doctor, said the Palin family’s story is not unique.

“Certainly as a family doctor I treated lots of Americans.”

When she testified before a U.S. Senate committee in September, Bennett told the story of a U.S. Vietnam veteran who had to go to Canada for cancer treatment because he couldn’t afford medical care in the country he fought for.

Bennett said Palin should bear in mind the high cost of medical care is a leading cause of bankruptcies in the U.S.

“Criticizing our system isn’t helping her fellow Americans.”