"Robert Green" writes:

"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
"Robert Green" wrote:
There WILL be death panels. There has to be death panels. BOTH sides
have studiously ignored that realilty and thrown up mutual smoke
screens.

I don't disagree. I believe (as I think Dan did) that the original "death
panels" were a deliberate mis-labeling of the concept of paying doctors to
advise patients about end-of-life care options. That got co-opted into
"there's a secret group of people conspiring to unplug Granny from the
respirator." As we both know there's ALWAYS been a secret group of people,
public and private, that determine resource allocation. The two concepts
got conflated, inflated, restated and distorted to death.

I believe my statement was that the ACA Death Panels as identified by SP
were nonsense.

Having some experience with this, the current situation is to work out
a plan between the doctor/patient/family.

At least that's what happened in our case with a family member after
a stroke. As long as that continues to work reasonably well, I don't
think we're going to need death panels.

Kurt's in the business (I think). Maybe he'll tell some stories.

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Dan Espen