In my opinion the word "death panels" is pretty legit. It sounds horrible, but there HAS to be a group of people that decide if they are going to put someone on $500 of morphine compared to several thousand bucks of a medicine that "might" help or might not....it has to be that way if it's government run. The reason is that healthy people don't need money from the government, the ONLY people that need help are sick, and there is just not enough money to hand out to everyone who wants to try the "new stuff" that curred someone somewhere else. Logic says they have to choose what will be spent. It's called rationing, and the people that deicide these things right now could be called a death panel, because that is what they are actually deciding in some cases.
Anyone that says different is just plain wrong. When my dad was in supre bad shape with insurance, they wanted to extend his life, said they could for another six months, but we knew he did not want that, and we decided to hook up the morphine instead of the breathing machine. My brothers and my mom were in fact...a death panel. The difference is family decided and not some people somewhere else. OK....death panel sounds bad....make it a political thing and run down Palin, conservatives...whatever. The left wing nuts shold tell me the correct term then....please tell me what you would call it. I bet we both mean the same thing, but t wing nut just has a different word to make it sound better.
The president and some in Congress have a problem. The legislation as it reads is not what they are selling, too many people reading it. That is their main problem. They look and sound like liars, because the house bill is available to all of us. That is their only problem, they are liars, or too dumb to read what the "staff" put in there...choose one of those, either way, it's bad news. I heard Obam's town hall meeting tonight, after going over the legislation, I have no problem saying he is either a liar, or too stupid to read what I'm reading. Another thing...if I was in a town meeting with him, and allowed to ask one question, it would be "Mr. president, had the house and the senate passed the health care bill right away, would you have signed it in it's current form right away?" I would have asked it quietly and with respect. We know he would have. Scary huh? His answer would be interesting, and millions that have read the legislation would have come to the conclusion he is either a liar, or not reading this stuff, and doesn't care what's in it. 1000 plus pages of anything can't be good regardless if you read it or not.
