Posted on 03/29/2010 6:06:45 PM PDT by Biggirl
As Ed at HotAir would say, “Nuance”. Fabulously lefty liberal Nobel prize economist Paul Krugman tells the lefty leaning panel on This Week that those “Death Panels” have been mischaracterized to scare people … but in fact in the long run will save us money on ineffective care. He is of course referring to The Medicare Advisory Panel which has ultimate say in what types of procedures and drugs are covered, and oh by the way, can’t be challenged. Krugman doesn’t see too much wrong with this panel … because, hey, they’ll save us money.
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Why am I disgusting? Perhaps you should rethink your posts before hitting “post”? All I said was if he doesn’t think panels are bad then he shouldn’t have a provblem stading in front of one since he seems to think it is ok for others.
He's right. Insurance companies won't get between me and my doctor - the government will.
“Poison all the soup kitchens and we’ll save money, too.”
Good point.
They also want to kill the unborn to save money.
Not to mention the decreased carbon footprint.
Deporting Democrats would save us trillions...
The irony is so rich here. The reason we have all the big expensive prodedures and testing overkill is that doctors do what they can to cover their butts and not get sued.
Then the govt tells us the new healthcare reform will make medicine more compassionate and focused on quality. Isn’t that what we’re doing right now, pulling out all the stops for treatment? But that’s too expensive and unnecessary and we can’t do that anymore.
And around the wheel we go...
He also had a unique way dealing with Mohammedans.
Now that you mention it, he did scare the crap of those marauding moosies.
Chris, if I misread your post, I deeply apologize. I certainly don’t want to go there. Happy Easter.
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