Edward 4Death Panels Killing Americans
August 13th 2009 02:17
I have not felt the motivation to blog since the election, but the precarious state of health care reform has me itching to scream my opinion out into that digital echo chamber known as the blogosphere. I realize that it doesn’t really make a difference what one person thinks, but I suppose I’ll contribute my one small slice of perspective to whoever may be reading.
Lately it seems like the media and the court of public opinion has been focused on one bizarre issue, that of death panels. These death panels (or so the story goes) would weigh a citizen’s worth in society against the cost of keeping them alive. Well guess what? We won’t have to wait for the evil liberal’s Marxist plot to take fruition; this country is already plagued with death panels.
When a patient can’t receive a life saving procedure or transplant because a doctor on health insurance payroll says its ‘experimental,’ that patient has been sentenced to death. When a health insurance company denies a patient coverage because of a pre-existing condition, that patient has been sentenced to death. When a health insurance company decides they’re only going to pay so much for a certain procedure and the patient must pay the rest of the ridiculous bill, that patient has been sentenced to death.
But they aren’t completely evil; most of their malfeasance has to do with thievery and deception, such as multiple denials of covered claims (and paying large bonuses to employees who deny the most amount of claims.) You see, death panels have been around for a long time and the really sick thing is that they’re turning a huge profit. God bless capitalism.
Sure capitalism works great for inanimate products and services, but when we’re dealing with a person’s life, should making a profit really be the first priority? Shouldn’t a system that advocates prevention of illness instead of reactive treatments be what we are striving for? Shouldn’t doctors get bonuses based on how healthy their patients are rather than kickbacks for ordering extra tests or prescriptions? I do want a bureaucrat between me and my doctor, because I’d rather have a bureaucrat than a capitalist.
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