Here come the "DEATH PANELS"! Doctor Panels Recommend Fewer Tests for Patients + Call For End To Five Cancer Treatments, Tests

Bumping this...

Pinned for TRUTH!

And they said it wouldn't happen here...

Who woulda thunk it... Thanks to all the brain dead democrats that pushed for this garbage. You are going to get EXACTLY what you wanted... Be careful what you wish for.

TY for the pin And you're exactly right. They laughed at Sarah Palin, and while I'm not too partial to her IT LOOKS LIKE SHE WAS RIGHT!


Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin defended her claim that the Democratic health care proposal would create “death panels” in a statement Wednesday night slamming President Barack Obama.

“Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system, these ‘unproductive’ members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care,” Palin wrote in a note on her Facebook page.

“The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled ‘Advance Care Planning Consultation.’ With all due respect, it’s misleading for the president to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients,” she continued.


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Last Edited by Laura Bow on 04/04/2012 12:57 PM

truth.

This sounds like Russia 10 years ago... not today though.

I can only hope that these policies kill lots and lots of Democrats, since they inflicted it on the rest of us.

Although I don't agree with these "death panels", I do agree with them that there is to much inefficiency in the medical world leading to unaffordable medical costs.

Big Pharma has too much power at this moment!

yep!! and it is quietly being enforced as we speak...


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Yea easy for you to say when you live in the Netherlands and have very good socialistic medicine. Here we will still pay more for health care than any other country as we always have, we will have shit health care to boot. They need to use Germany, Switzerland, Denmark etc as good examples of socialistic healthcare. Hell my daughter in Costa Rica gets better and way cheaper health care than I get here in the US and I pay lots more than she ever has.

Is that Obama's fault?

EKGs -> if you miss long QT syndome -> death. You can diagnose ventricular hypertrophy - marker of hypertension, rhythym disturbances, end organ damage from valve disorders, conduction disturbances...and many of these things are asymptomatic. If you miss some of this stuff, you get a lawsuit.

M.R.I's of back pain -> definitely shouldn't be a first line test, but if the pain doesn't get better after 4-6 weeks, it's either a ct of the back or an MRI.

Antibiotics for mild sinusitis -> first line treatment if it's clear discharge is going to be a nasal steroid. If it's green and mucky, amoxicillin.

Routine stress imaging in asymptomatic patients is not needed.

A radiologist usually don't order CTs of the head for a headache -> it's an ordering doctor -> i.e. neurologist, er doctor, primary care doctor, etc. However, most primary doctors won't get a ct of a head for a "simple headache". If, however, the headache persists for several days, then you do need to rule out a few things like sinusitis, cerebral aneursyms etc.


Lowest doses of medication for reflux is usually OTC pepcid / zantac, etc. By the time anyone gets referred to a gastroenterologist, they need the next level up, usually a PPI (prilosec etc).

Even oncologists are being urged to cut back on scans for patients with early stage breast and prostate cancers that are not likely to spread <- this is ridiculous. If you don't stage it right and monitor it's progress, talk about lawsuit city and wrong treatment for that matter. Radiation therapy and surgery for solitary mets would be missed.

kidney disease doctors are urged not to start chronic dialysis before having a serious discussion with the patient and family. <- wtf? Like anyone in their right mind would allow themselves to be hooked up to a machine 3-4 hours a session, 3 days a week without having a serious discussion. LOL.

As you can see, a lot of this stuff is related to malpractice. Tort reform is needed to fix some of these problems outside of other changes.

Last Edited by Sbert on 04/04/2012 01:53 PM

I am not for death panels, but I do agree that a lot of waste is dragging the system down. Case in point... 78 year old woman who is depressed (It is really a case of spoiled bitch syndrome, but that is too long of a story ) For the last 20+ years, her ass is carted off to the psychiatrists office twice a month at the cost of about $ 250.00 per visit. Any and all suggestions that the psychiatrist makes to improve the condition are ignored and met with flat out refusal . The patient refuses to help herself in anyway. So you have an insurance company ( Part of a bloated retired teachers compensation package) having to foot a bill of $6000.00 per year so that an old, cranky, woman can get her attention fix.

This is a true story, and this is the type of waste that makes it diffuicult for many in this country to have access to quality and affordable care.

it's start, thank you


mainstream health care has been for profit and de-population for so long...

what about mamograms? I have heard pros and cons on this test, I am 62 and never had one and Kaiser is always calling me trying to get me to come in for one.

Well

I know for a fact if you have the right kind of insurance, it doesn't matter what is being asked for....

you get it

very limited questions are asked

THis country does have a social class

one class of people will get everything they want

the rest are being cut off

this is a class warfare system

I live in a town that is a test site for Obamacare...all I can tell you is that it sucks!..

It's all done on laptop computers my doc spends my whole visit inputting my info on her computer..they no longer have charts or medical secretaries..

The docs hate it too.

They no longer look at your throat, ears or listen to your heart.

No personal contact with the patient..

I don't think they would know a cancer symptom...unless the patient complains a lot..by the time they actually check u out...you'll be on the way out..

I agree with you. I was depressed about my daughter moving out and not letting me see my grand kids for several months so Kaiser had me go to a psychologist, I went twice, she kept looking at the clock and told me to take my computer to the park and I may meet people and make new friends. I saw the bill they were charging the insurance company and canceled all other apts. I could have read a self help book and got more out of it.

Look at how they squish your mammary down to a 1 inch slab and decide for yourself if it's good for you.

I am certainly not against a person obtaining psychiatric services if they need them, but as I stated in the original post, this person does not follow the doctors advice. 20 years is a long time to run up bills, if there is no improvement in the condition. You can bet your ass that if this old bat were paying out of pocket, she would not be doing this. It is just selfish to have an "I am not paying for it, so why should I care" attitude. She fails to realize that every other person/family enrolled in the plan pays for this through increased premiums.

You haven't seen anything yet. Obamacare makes it official.

^ Very well put^

Cancer treatement is a farce anyway. Moreover, we have to get out of the mind set that we need doctors. We need to take care of ourselves.
Doctors are great at setting broken bones, repairing torn muscles, stitching up wounds, but for disease, they have no more of clue than you do.
Hippocrates said, 'let they food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.'

We teach evolution in our schools, so we in affect say that we are no better than a pig. So, why shouldn't they exterminate us when we become what they deem us as drains on society?

If you teach people they are animals, and they believe it, then that's how they should expect to be treated...

truth is sometimes doctor refers a patient to another physician friend to do unnecessary test just to share the wealth around... or prescribe unneeded medicine for their patients just to get more kick back from pharma's... i work in healthcare --- see this all the time . of course not all doctors are like that either...

us. conventional doctors can't find their asses with both hands anyway.
I am dealing with a lifelong immune disorder CAUSED BY UNTHINKING FUCKING STUPID DOCTORS which will kill me earlier and my son will walk this earth longer without family. We are close. Prior to this my health was actually quite fine, no "conditions" at all.

All drs should be forced to ingest samples of everything they dump on their patients and risk their useless lives as well.

Medicine is poison. Up is down. Black is white. Good is evil.

It's interesting to see such a negative viewpoint on doctors.

Considering they are the ones that man the ICU have shitty hours in the Hospital and subsequently save your asses from heart attacks, diabetic comas, etc.

Entitlement goes a bit far in the USA.

People have more respect for mechanics that service their cars then they do for their physicians.

Sure there is corruption, sure there is big pharma. Just like every industry out there, there are hypnocrits.

However, when you or your family are on death's door and on a ventilator, you'll be happy to get care that isn't dictated by a panel.

Doctors as a whole have their issues but to generalize that ALL doctors as a whole are somewhat all scheming and over utilizing bastards are rather sad to see.

We don't need these BASTARDS at all
The cures are here NOW!
What the HELL is the matter with you buncha friggin shill bastards!
Nothing will change You all could give a damn! Hypoicrites.

There ARE a lot of UNNEEDED Tests and Medications prescribed ... and it COSTS EVERYONE ELSE LOTS OF MONEY to have that unneeded work done.

People hate to hear it, but it has worked well in EVERY industry and process it has been applied to: Statistical Analysis IMPROVES the quality and safety of the process.

The Medical Establishment has FOUGHT against modern Statistical Analysis being applied to medicine precisely because they understand that it WILL take the high earning Doctor out of he loop for certain decisions, decisions that cost everyone a LOT of money and are shown to not make one bit of difference in medical outcomes for the patient.

There is NOTHING WRONG WITH FEWER TESTS BEING DONE IF THOSE TESTS ARE DOING NOTHING TO IMPROVE PATIENT OUTCOMES ... BUT ARE ONLY SERVING TO LINE THE POCKETS OF THE TEST PROVIDERS WITH MONEY!

Personally I have a Living Will ... the major reason being I think it is WRONG to spend massive amounts of society's resources to keep me from meeting my God in order to spend just a few extra days, or weeks, living in a body that can no longer function as human being (ie: live with a quality of life).

I think one of the great things that could be done to reign in health care costs is if is determined that a person is has less than a two week life expectancy then the families can continue massive interventionist medicine ON THEIR NICKLE ... but insurance companies and the Medicare/Medicaid system will no longer be responsible for anything but Hospice and Pain Management type of care.

If FAMILIES HAD TO PAY the actual costs associated with high intervention medicine during the final two weeks of life, versus shoving that cost on everyone else but themselves, you might see a lot more dignity in death returning to our society.

FWIW: If one is truly a Christian then NATURAL Death is nothing to fear. It is a time to celebrate the fact that the person, though they will be missed, has moved on to a better place.