“Independent Payment Advisory Board”:
“The proposed board would establish a new spending target that could subject physicians to multiple cuts in a given year.”
- American Medical Association
Death Panel Official Name
December 24th, 2009 | Health Care
Your article is very nice. May possibly you please post some inexperienced information about this? best regards
I’m thinking Susan Grobovsky wants “fresh” information about the topic. That’s a guess, and I could be wrong, but she may not be a native speaker of English. Forgive me, Susan, particularly if I am wrong about that.
“Death Panels” in one form or another are necessary components of any system which attempts to control medical costs by rationing health care. Without question, this has been a long-standing trend in nationalized health care systems across the board. If Obama gets his health care plan passed, there will be “Death Panels” in one form or another. I have heard that such panels already operate in the private health insurance industry. One major reason why private insurance “rationing” cannot actually produce a “Death Panel” is that private insurors have no power to make their decisions stick. They can be sued. The government cannot. If you don’t like a decision from your private insuror, you can find a way to pay for medical care they have refused to cover. Under the government plan, a refusal from the government is final. You can’t get treatments from a private source with private money once the central government controls the nation’s health sector. At best, you might be able to go to another country. But which one? Now, people from other countries around the world come to the United States for treatments their own countries’ national health care systems deny them.
Here is one piece of fresh analysis. Nat Hentoff (a liberal) recognizes the reality of death panels in Obama’s health care reform plan.
http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/19/nat-hentoff-on-the-death-panels/