The real “Death Panels,” the ones that Sarah Palin and most of the Right has been talking about are already at work. Liberals/Progressive have said that when resources are limited, treatment should be rationed. So the elderly and the very sick will be given, in Barack Obama’s words a “pain pill” to help them die in comfort.
What’s happening in Arizona is a foretaste of what will happen nationally when Obamacare goes into full effect.
PHOENIX – A second person denied transplant coverage by Arizona under a state budget cut has died, with this death "most likely" resulting from the coverage reduction, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday.
University Medical Center spokeswoman Jo Marie Gellerman said the patient died Dec. 28 at another medical facility after earlier being removed from UMC's list for a liver transplant needed because of hepatitis C....Arizona reduced Medicaid coverage for transplants on Oct. 1 under cuts included to help close a shortfall in the state budget enacted last spring.
In the end, all people die. Human mortality is 100%. But to have a government agency make those decisions instead of the patient or the family is the end result of government control of medicine. It makes us cogs in the government wheel, and supplicants for the right to live to a government bureaucrat. Strangely enough, it’s what Progressives want. I believe that in the end they think they’ll be the ones in charge, and on the whole that will be true. The rest of us will be … dispensable.
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