The problem that NO one is addressing is the plethora of health care costs that are hidden from patients. How much is that bag of IV fluid? How much is that mesh used to close your groin hernia? Why is it that a titanium rod to fix a femur (thigh bone) fracture costs over $1000? While there may be more obese patients in France and Germany compared to the US, I bet that there are far more scooter chairs here than there. I would bet that we are paying more per scooter chair than anywhere else in the world. It is these product expenses that are killing us and driving up the cost of health care.
By ecthompsonmd|2013-08-22T09:34:13-04:00August 23rd, 2013|Healthcare|Comments Off on Health care: Why your stitches cost $1500 – part 2
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Today on his radio show, however, Glenn Beck said that he thinks she has a point. ” I believe it to be true, but that’s quite a statement,” said Beck, adding, “I believe she at least should be listened to and you should question, ‘Is it evil?’”
What Death Panel? Where is that in any bill being discussed on Capital Hill?
Update: Keith Olbermann had a Special Comment on Sarah Palin tonight.
“The America I know and love,” the quitter governor of Alaska Sarah Palin began, “is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
Of course it is, Ms. Palin, and that is why it does not exist, has not existed, and would never, under this president, nor any other president, ever exist, in this country.
There is no ‘death panel.’ There is no judgment based on societal productivity. There is no worthiness test. But there is downright evil, and Ms. Palin, you just served its cause. You shouted “fire” in a crowded theater — a hot one — and then today tried to roll it back with “no, no, sorry, not fire, I meant flashlights.” (more…)
Watch the video:
