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The new provision allows Medicare to pay for end of life counseling, asking patients about end of life treatment during their regular doctor visits

Death Panel Resurrected



Sarah Palin was excoriated for making the entirely correct observation that when a government controls health care, rationing becomes inevitable. Democrats squealed like stuck pigs, but dropped the execrable end of life counseling language from ObamaCare.

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Undeterred, Obama used a recess appointment to afflict us with Dr. Donald Berwick who is unabashed in his affection for the deeply dysfunctional British health care system. Comrade Berwick heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and his positions on government control over health care are pretty plain.
You cap your health care budget, and you make the political and economic choices you need to make to keep affordability within reach.
On the matter of doctors who might be inclined to make decisions in the best interest of an individual patient, rather than the good of the collective:
Hence, those working in health care delivery may be faced with situations in which it seems that the best course is to manipulate the flawed system for the benefit of a specific patient or segment of the population, rather than to work to improve the delivery of care for all. Such manipulation produces more flaws, and the downward spiral continues.
On Christmas Day, the NYT revealed the resurrection of the death panel by way of the unelected bureaucrat. The new provision allows Medicare to pay for end of life counseling, asking patients about end of life treatment during their regular doctor visits. It’s a short hop to pressuring patients to cooperate with their doctors in agreeing to opt out of all but the most meager palliative care.
The government can get a lot of people to sign away critical care simply by asking their insidious questions of young and healthy patients, who are much more likely to insist they don't want to lie in a hospital bed with a bunch of tubes stuck in them.
The new head of the Euthanasia Department is especially partial to the British National Health Services use of algorithms to determine whether senior citizens are worthy of treatment. After the great hue and cry caused by Palin’s outing of the death panel provision in ObamaCare, Democrats naturally would have preferred to keep this new incarnation of government mandated extermination under wraps. Democrat Earl Blumenauer of Oregon:
While we are very happy with the result, we won’t be shouting it from the rooftops, because we aren’t out of the woods yet. This regulation could be modified or reversed, especially if Republican leaders try to use this small provision to perpetuate the ‘death panel’ myth… We would ask that you not broadcast this accomplishment out to any of your lists, even if they are ‘supporters’ – emails can too easily be forwarded… Thus far, it seems that no press or blogs have discovered [the new Medicare regulations], but we will be keeping a close watch and may be calling on you if we need a rapid, targeted response. The longer this goes unnoticed, the better our chances of keeping it.
The sine qua non of communism is the diminution in value of individual human life. The collective is all; the state replaces God as the state must be completely separate from any notion of a power greater than itself. This lack of value on life is prominent in the liberal pro choice platform. In a socialist society, humans become expendable; oppressed humans don’t value their own lives or the lives of others the way a free population does. As we hurtle toward socialized medicine, it’s worth considering that less effort will be devoted to providing treatment for the critically ill and less effort will be directed toward preventing unnatural deaths in a culture that has ceased to cherish individual life.


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