Much has been made by democrats regarding the term death panel. They correctly point out that women pregnant with a down syn drone baby will not be called to stand in front of a government panel who will parse out if your unborn will live or die. Neither will they ask the very old to stand while the death panel debated the merits of saving their life with heroic health care. What Govener Palin said about death panels sounds totally incredible when it is considered this way.
In reality the death panels will have a kind and safe sounding name like committee for excellent care. The British death panel is called N.I.C.E. , National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. This panel meets and decides how best to ration health care coverage. They use a model called Quality adjusted life years or QALYs. Rationing means not everyone gets every service. They have decided that those under 15 and over 65 should get a lower cost care with fewer heroic actions. They have even placed a dollar amount on the value of another year of life for an elderly person. If they can extend the life for a year and it costs less than $45000 then the patient gets the care. If it is far more than $45000 then give the patient pain meds and send them home to die. The Obama seems headed in this direction, Dr. Ezekial Emanuel is a key health care advisor to President Obama and the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Earlier this year, Dr. Emanuel wrote an article that advocated what he called “the complete lives system” as a method for rationing health care. Here is that article
read the attached
http://www.hlc.org/020108.pdf
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33100
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