Well let's not just call it a "Death Panel". How about "Health Cost Containment Committee"? :-)
On Aug 13, 7:58 am, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > Who should??? Palin used the term "Death Panel"... Democrats > objected... Palin's graphic point was limiting health care due to > cost to the most vulnerable -- the elderly, the poor, the children > with birth defects -- is a "death panel"... As Obama broached the > very same possibility, to suggest it just is Palin going over the top > is partisan... > > So let us hear Obama in his own words "And that's part of why you have > to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It's not > determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. > And that's part of what I suspect you'll see emerging out of the > various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill > right now" > > So who decides??? To pretend Obama did not raise the question of > "Death Panels" by denial of service due to cost is not helpful in this > debate. > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/08/12/will-yo... > > >>> THE PRESIDENT: ... I don't know how much that hip replacement cost. I > >>> would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she's > >>> my grandmother. Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those > >>> decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else's aging grandparents > >>> or parents, a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a > >>> sustainable model, is a very difficult question. If somebody told me that > >>> my grandmother couldn't have a hip replacement and she had to lie there > >>> in misery in the waning days of her life - that would be pretty upsetting. > > LEONHARDT: And it's going to be hard for people who don't have the > option of paying for it. > > THE PRESIDENT: So that's where I think you just get into some very > difficult moral issues. But that's also a huge driver of cost, right? > > I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their > lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health > care bill out here. > > LEONHARDT: So how do you - how do we deal with it? > > THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a > conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And > then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic > conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the > country making those decisions just through the normal political > channels. And that's part of why you have to have some independent > group that can give you guidance. It's not determinative, but I think > has to be able to give you some guidance. And that's part of what I > suspect you'll see emerging out of the various health care > conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
