Death Panels Already?
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raised--by Reuters, no less--about the possibility of patients' being denied
care for political reasons:
Cancer experts fear new U.S. breast imaging guidelines that
recommend against routine screening mammograms for women in
their 40s may have their roots in the current drive in
Washington to reform healthcare.
Critics of the guidelines, issued on Monday by the U.S.
Services Task Force, an independent panel sponsored by
the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Quality, say the new guidelines
are a step backward and will lead to more cancer deaths.
Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer society says his group still recommends
mammograms for 40-something women:
But he is worried that women will become so confused by the
conflicting recommendations they will stop getting mammograms
altogether. "Frankly, from our point of view that would be
the worst possible outcome," Lichtenfeld said in a telephone
interview.
Lichtenfeld and other doctors are worried that insurance
companies and government insurers will seize on the
recommendations as a way to control rising health costs.
"What is going to happen is insurers are going to say, 'The U.S.
Preventive Services Task Force doesn't support screening. We're
not going to pay for it,'" said Dr Daniel Kopans, professor of
radiology at Harvard Medical School and a senior radiologist
at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"There were no new data to assess. One has to wonder why these
new guidelines are being promulgated at a time when healthcare
is under discussion and I am afraid their decision is related
to saving money rather than saving lives," Kopans said.
If the new advice is medically unsound and motivated by cost-cutting, it's
especially insidious, because it's our understanding that mammograms are not
pleasant, so that many women presumably will be happy to avoid them. (As a
female friend quips, "They couldn't have told me this nine years ago to spare
me from all those years of unnatural squeezing?")
One of the advantages of a market-based medical system is that countervailing
interests keep one another honest. Sure, the insurance companies want to cut
costs, but providers of medical goods and services have incentives that
militate in the opposite direction--and, one hopes, disinterested government
regulators keep everyone honest. In a socialized health-care system, by
contrast, the government IS all those special interests, and you can forget
about counting on it to keep itself honest.
Speaking of which, check out this report in the Los Angeles Times:
Congressional Democrats' intensifying efforts to pay for
their healthcare overhaul and provide more relief for
consumers are threatening to unravel a White House deal
with the pharmaceutical industry and turn one of Washington's
most powerful lobbies against the legislation.
Drug makers, which have already spent $110 million lobbying
Congress this year, are preparing to make a stand in the
Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is working
to unveil a healthcare bill this week.
And senior administration officials, including White House
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, are warning members of Congress
not to antagonize the deep-pocketed industry at a time when
a major victory appears to be within reach, according to
Democratic aides.
Do you trust your health to the Obama administration? To the drug companies?
If you answered "yes" to both these questions, you're even crazier than if you
answered "yes" to one of them.
--
It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats did
to America.
rocket scientist
By Hal Womack 3-dan
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack
http://tinyurl.com/8fp6zw
Should Earth's by far biggest gang of known murderers try Major Nidal
Hasan for shooting down US soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas, on Thursday
the 5th of November present?
The question, of course, suggests its own answer:
We, the law-abiding and -enforcing inhabitants of the Planet, 7
billion strong,
should arrest, try, convict and punish all murderers.
'Tis wrong for any such to be walking around in public, let alone
conducting official proceedings of any kind whatsoever.
By his violent action, Major Hasan qualified himself as the only known
member of U.S. armed forces to be exempt from prosecution for murder.
Both the facts and the law governing this case are well-known to all
serious observers. The magic word = "Nuremberg Doctrine", specifically
the strict prohibition of wars of aggression, which are the only kind
of wars which the U.S.A. and its Israeli master have waged since we,
the Human Race, criminalized this traditional top activity in 1945
through the agency of the International Military Tribunal.
I appeal to students everywhere --the names of Brazil, Russia,
Venezuela, Mexico, South Korea
spring to mind and the list could be extended at great length. Again I
appeal to students everywhere to generate pressure against the
Pentagon's worldwide slaughter by conducting massive public
demonstrations in defense of Major Nidal.
Virtually the entire U.S. Congress as well as the officers of all of
the dominant institutions in the US and Europe deserve to stand trial
for the murder of millions of victims in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan
in the last two decades alone.
Such be the clear positive law which deserves our respect because it
serves justice only. I have spoken.
and;
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-
edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood
boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need
in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused
with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights
unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have
done. And I am Caesar."
(Julius Caesar)
and; those that live by the sword.........?
No Way losers
real. Maybe not a panel of people that decide who lives and dies but the
whole thing is based on the idea of cutting services that save lives.
Everything that is done in politics is done for a reason. It is
calculated and on purpose. No mistakes made in the bill. It is just the
liberals trying to achieve their goals and they do not care about any
one dying in the process. Once their health care is in place it can
never be un done. They only want it and at any cost.
Havoc
"No Way losers" <nolo...@att.net> wrote in message
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>"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
>citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-
>edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
>And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood
>boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need
>in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused
>with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights
>unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have
>done. And I am Caesar."
> (Julius Caesar)
Ummmm, you DO realize that's not a real quote, right?
O|l Korrect
> ObamaCare itself is still just a nightmare, but already questions are
> being raised--by Reuters, no less--about the possibility of patients'
> being denied care for political reasons:
>
> Cancer experts fear new U.S. breast imaging guidelines that
> recommend
> against routine screening mammograms for women in their 40s may
> have
> their roots in the current drive in Washington to reform
> healthcare.
>
No big deal. That's only for white women.
Fewer white women is good. Unless they're ridin' my big black dick.
Freddrick Smith
there would be only a hand full of them left.