Pages

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Robert Reich on Death Panels

Another Obama adviser states that if politicians told the truth to voters one of the items that they would address regarding health care is diminished care for the elderly. So who would decide what is excessive care for an ill elderly? A panel, I would hope. Unfortunately, as I sated before, what they would more likely get is a denial of service from a computer based upon age and diagnosis profile compared to a cost and likely outcome table or algorithm. So Sarah Palin was probably wrong. You won't get a panel only a computer code and a faceless bureaucracy to appeal to. However, for now, it appears that health care/economic adviser to the president, Mr. Reich says you will get less care. The decision may or may not come from a panel, but that is not the point. So Sarah Palin was correct and deserves an apology.

The rest of Mr. Reich's spiel is interesting too, and surprisingly candid and correct. (It is not really fair to call him Robert Third Riech) Hear him:

http://www.verumserum.com/?p=9040

No comments:

Post a Comment