“We’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive, so we’re going to let you die.”Don Surber has the video and more.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Health Care Quote of the Day
From former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, talking in 2007 about "what an honest president would say about health care reform":
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Sounds like a good commercial for the Republicans in 2010.
Nightingale,
The Republicans can also run an ad on this:
Rocky Mountain Health Plans, a Colorado health insurer, announced in a press release Monday that they will cover "heavy" babies after a story revealed the insurer had denied coverage to a healthy infant who weighed 17 pounds.
"A recent situation in which we denied coverage to a heavy, yet healthy, infant brought to our attention a flaw in our underwriting system for approving infants," Steve ErkenBrack, president of the insurer said in a release Monday. "Because we are a small company dedicated to the people of Colorado, we are pleased to be in a position to act quickly. We have changed our policy, corrected our underwriting guidelines and are working to notify the parents of the infant who we earlier denied."
Although, I'm not sure whose side they would be on.
You know Lew, I don't know who's on what side anymore.
All I do know is no one can make the best decision for you and your loved ones than you. We need to protect that.
And every human being has worth, if for no other reason than they are created in the image of the God.
I didn't realize there were so many crazies in Congressw and on the White House Staff. No wonder our country is in such a mess with people who think like this.
Amen, Nightingale. There is nothing like looking after one's own interests. Okay, with insurance one faces potential risks as, for instance, that a company might not make good on its benefit claims. (As in Lew's example.) Nothing's perfect, but I'd rather have risk spread out over the whole economy rather than lodged in one place -- a federal provider. When you have the government running the whole show, where do you turn when things go wrong? And not "if" things goes wrong, but "when" they do. Because they will.
The more I read between the lines of the Dems' plans, the more I begin to think that they actually want to increase mortality rates. The really hip leftists are very attuned to population growth. They are Malthusians. They aim to shield themselves from the effects of their handiwork. Evidently, those designing the system do not believe it will harm them. That's part of the fantasy. But it's up to the polity to protect the nation from this folly.
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