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Obama Says "Right to Try" Bill a "Costly Mistake" [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 3 June 2018 | John Semmens

Posted on 06/01/2018 6:05:00 PM PDT by John Semmens

This week President Trump signed the "Right to Try" bill recently passed by Congress. The new law will allow desperately ill patients to employ therapies not yet approved by the FDA. Trump called the bill "a decent and humane option to the current policy that allows patients no option until the glacial pace of the FDA has run its full course. Many have died waiting. This will give them a chance to act at their own risk to try to avert dying."

Former President Obama predicted "this legislation is a costly mistake. Patients aren't qualified to assess the risks. Neither are their doctors who have the narrow focus of keeping these individuals alive no matter the cost. Not everyone can be saved. Rather than allowing individuals to grasp at straws we have a system that dispassionately analyzes the risks and rewards on a collective basis. The private resources that are squandered to save the few could be better deployed to the benefit of the many if we allow for a greater government role, as my Affordable Care Act put in place."

"Offering palliative care to the terminally ill is the progressive solution that puts the well-being of the many ahead of the search for improbable cures for the few," Obama argued. "Government needs to have the courage to tell these sick individuals that the struggle simply isn't worth it. We should be generous with pain relief and end-of-life assistance, but we should conserve scarce resources for the growing cohort of immigrants that are making up for the birth shortage among native born Americans. That is the greater good for the greater number."

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/241182-2018-06-01-semi-news-semi-satire-june-3-2018-edition.htm


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; obamacare; righttotry; satire; trump

1 posted on 06/01/2018 6:05:00 PM PDT by John Semmens
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2 posted on 06/01/2018 6:06:01 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

LOL! Barry O’Slabem is riding shotgun with Jack Kevorkian on the highway to hell.

If you don’t like your Dr....Dr. Jack is here for you.

Trump care v. Obamacare BUMP!


3 posted on 06/01/2018 6:13:35 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: John Semmens

There is a time and place for triage. Being over eager for triage is indecent.


4 posted on 06/01/2018 6:14:16 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: John Semmens

Obama Says “Right to Try” Bill a “Costly Mistake”

If Obozo is against it....it must be Great for America.


5 posted on 06/01/2018 6:46:52 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: John Semmens

His logic is so secular and utilitarian.


6 posted on 06/01/2018 6:48:40 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: John Semmens

My eyes are tired. I glanced at your headline and saw “A Bill Cosby Mistake”

Ouch!


7 posted on 06/01/2018 6:56:58 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: John Semmens

Obama = a very costly mistake. I’m not just talking about the 10 trillion dollars he added to the national debt. He was costly in every conceivable way. What a calamity. One of the all time worst US presidents.


8 posted on 06/01/2018 7:03:19 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now. Free the Donald.)
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9 posted on 06/01/2018 7:12:47 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: John Semmens

I had to share this one! Tnks!


10 posted on 06/01/2018 7:28:47 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: John Semmens

The state knows better or so Obama thinks. The left seem happy fot people to take their own life but not choose their own treatment. Seems like his pat grade has gone up!


11 posted on 06/01/2018 7:31:25 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: John Semmens

From a guy who told a lady her 90 year old mom just needed to be made comfortable and then die, rather than get a new hip.


12 posted on 06/01/2018 7:52:30 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: John Semmens

Obama a “Costly Mistake”


13 posted on 06/01/2018 7:53:52 PM PDT by maddog55
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To: John Semmens
...we should conserve scarce resources for the growing cohort of immigrants that are making up for the birth shortage among native born Americans.

The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

14 posted on 06/01/2018 9:55:49 PM PDT by TChad
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To: musicman

Funny, in a strange sense.


15 posted on 06/01/2018 11:29:58 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: John Semmens

The right to choose takes control of your health out of the hands of government(IRS).


16 posted on 06/02/2018 1:54:45 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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