Krauthammer Debunks ‘Death Panel’ Claim

“Because we know that if this white-coated authority whose chosen vocation is curing and healing is the one opening your mind to hospice and palliative care, we’ve nudged you ever so slightly toward letting go.”
Marginally less dishonest. I guess that's about as good as it's going to get with conservatives and healthcare.

There will be a panel. It may not be the doctor patient end of life review that you mentioned but there clearly will be a panel that decides in general terms what the public system will pay for and what it will not. there has to be a panel or some mechanism to do it. If Sarah Palin is referring to that as a Death Panel it is a bit of Marketing that may be a reach but then most politicians seem to be reaching.

Just as there is a panel that decide what the insurance company will pay for. Srah was not refering to that panel, she was referring to the made up imaginary panel the Charlie C. is at pains to dismuss.

Someone with more patience than I could maybe explain how this jibes with “OMG costs are going to get out of control” when in fact the kind of greedy, rapacious doctor that other conservatives are telling us to fear would advise expensive, ultimately futile, care.

I can't do it; I've personally given up on trying to unravel their contradictions. I quit after “It'll be incredibly expensive! It'll be so cheap that private companies can't compete! And that's a bad thing somehow!” gave me whiplash.

But there will be a panel. Maybe Sarah Palin did not link to the panel correctly but what does that matter. So you get to the panel another way. There is a panel. Has to be. So Charles Krauthammer, who I think is brilliant and often correct, is attacking the existence of a panel that has to exist.

Why would he say that doctors who have sworn to do everything in their power to save lives would encourage people toward euthanasia? If anything, the opposite would appear to be more likely. And more likely still would be that doctors would try to stay above the fray by informing their patients of the various options and letting them choose for themselves, having been apprised of the fact that living wills can be changed whenever desired as long as the patient is still mentally competent- which is of course the only time a living will can be created. If it falls onto relatives who can only guess what outcome their loved one would have chosen, then it's already too late- as the Terry Shiavo tragedy will remind us.

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This is how they plan to bend the curve, as Emmanuel has pointed out, with 600 million dollars in saving for South Florida alone, didn't the President say, take the painkiller for the operation

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