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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20939
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:23 am Post subject: |
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"Death panels" refer more to health care rationing than to assisted suicide. Both have begun, and both have their place if defined and managed well.
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boggsman1
Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 9138 Location: at a computer
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:58 am Post subject: |
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Lots of focus on the negatives, rightly so, Medicare/SS is 90% of the battle with regards to spending, but the elected career congressman wont touch it.
The positives are substantial. The US is selling more Citi today, at a tidy profit. The Geithner plan to buy stakes in the financials last spring was a huge success, for the makrets and the taxpayers. Balance sheets are strong as a result and eventually , employment will follow, it always does. Historically the third year of a presidential term is a winner, both for the markets, and the president. Think ,1995, 2003. |
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feuser
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Posts: 1508
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: |
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isobars wrote: | "Death panels" refer more to health care rationing than to assisted suicide. Both have begun, and both have their place if defined and managed well.
Mike |
Oh, okay. You call it "Death Panel" if the government mandates healthcare performance goals, and legitimate "rationing" if coverage is denied for-profit industry?
Let us be clear: The term "Death Panel" was always a deliberate misrepresentation, an attack by Betsy McCaughey, of the requirement to cover end-of-life counseling.
Anyone who is still crying "death panel" is putting themselves into the same group with the yahoos who still believe Obama is a Kenyan muslim out to establish Marxism in the US. _________________ florian - ny22
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17775 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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My Dad died of lung cancer. Chemotherapy extended his life by probably 6 to 18 months--but he slept most of the time because of the effects of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy probably killed my mother when she was terminal with colon cancer. I would be very careful myself about whether or not to elect to take these drugs, and I think that full information would have allowed them to make better decisions and probably have a more enjoyable last year. It probably will also save money, but the quality of life issues are much more profound. To make a political football out of this is despicable. But I would expect no better from Iso. |
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