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23 Sep 2011, 4:07 pm

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To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.



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23 Sep 2011, 4:14 pm

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To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


Which is unfortunate



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23 Sep 2011, 4:16 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


Just more empty and fear-mongering rhetoric. How would his treatments have been delayed, specifically? Assuming he has insurance, which he obviously does, then his situation would remain unchanged.

What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance? http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... -coverage/



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23 Sep 2011, 4:32 pm

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What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance?


At least Herman Cain made it :P


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23 Sep 2011, 4:33 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


'Yasha, have you ever heard the word 'triage,' and do you understand what it means?
Do you understand that countries with socialized medicine practice triage based on need, rather than ability to pay?
Did you know that people from countries with socialized medicine have greater life expectancy than those without, because of this?



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23 Sep 2011, 5:31 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


What LKL and number5 said.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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23 Sep 2011, 6:33 pm

number5 wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


Just more empty and fear-mongering rhetoric. How would his treatments have been delayed, specifically? Assuming he has insurance, which he obviously does, then his situation would remain unchanged.

What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance? http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... -coverage/


Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.



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23 Sep 2011, 6:58 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
number5 wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


Just more empty and fear-mongering rhetoric. How would his treatments have been delayed, specifically? Assuming he has insurance, which he obviously does, then his situation would remain unchanged.

What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance? http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... -coverage/


Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.


Actually, in Texas when Bush was governor, panels had been set up to involuntarily pull the plug on the elderly, if it was considered too expensive to keep that person alive... even above the objections of the family. Sound like death panels to me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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23 Sep 2011, 7:12 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
number5 wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


Just more empty and fear-mongering rhetoric. How would his treatments have been delayed, specifically? Assuming he has insurance, which he obviously does, then his situation would remain unchanged.

What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance? http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... -coverage/


Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.


Actually, in Texas when Bush was governor, panels had been set up to involuntarily pull the plug on the elderly, if it was considered too expensive to keep that person alive... even above the objections of the family. Sound like death panels to me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


If you are going to make statements like that, I would suggest you provide a source.



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23 Sep 2011, 7:17 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
number5 wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


Just more empty and fear-mongering rhetoric. How would his treatments have been delayed, specifically? Assuming he has insurance, which he obviously does, then his situation would remain unchanged.

What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance? http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... -coverage/


Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.


Actually, in Texas when Bush was governor, panels had been set up to involuntarily pull the plug on the elderly, if it was considered too expensive to keep that person alive... even above the objections of the family. Sound like death panels to me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


If you are going to make statements like that, I would suggest you provide a source.


I admittedly don't recall the source, but it's actually common knowledge - so much so that I believe someone had already posted this fact on WP.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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23 Sep 2011, 7:22 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
number5 wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


Just more empty and fear-mongering rhetoric. How would his treatments have been delayed, specifically? Assuming he has insurance, which he obviously does, then his situation would remain unchanged.

What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance? http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... -coverage/


Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.


Actually, in Texas when Bush was governor, panels had been set up to involuntarily pull the plug on the elderly, if it was considered too expensive to keep that person alive... even above the objections of the family. Sound like death panels to me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


If you are going to make statements like that, I would suggest you provide a source.


I admittedly don't recall the source, but it's actually common knowledge - so much so that I believe someone had already posted this fact on WP.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Common knowledge is not a source, I could care less what the rumor mill says, if you are going to make an accusation like that you better provide a source.

Also something other than Mediamatters, MoveOn.org, and DailyKos plz.

Update:

I found what you are referring but what I found actually changes the entire story and shows Bush tried to stop it.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xp ... &tab=votes

The law was only passed due to a VETO OVERRIDE, Bush actually Vetoed it and was overridden.

Guess you can't believe common knowledge huh.

Read:
http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/ ... rovisions/



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23 Sep 2011, 8:05 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
number5 wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
To throw this back in people's faces, since most of you didn't watch the debate.

If Obamacare had been in effect in 2006, one of the Republican Candidates would be dead from Cancer.


As a matter of fact, here in Washington state, the number of uninsured young adults has already decreased - and Obama's healthcare reform is credited with that. Precisely, it's because young adults are allowed to remain on their parent's insurance. No one can tell me that that's a bad thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I know someone who can say Obamacare is a bad thing, and he can back it up, that man is Herman Cain, whom would be dead now if Obamacare was in place in 2006.


But being that he's not dead, we'll never know for sure, now will we? :P

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually, we do know because it was Stage 4 cancer, as worse as it gets, if his treatments had been delayed (and they would have been due to Obamacare), he would be dead. At it was he only had a 30% survival chance.


Just more empty and fear-mongering rhetoric. How would his treatments have been delayed, specifically? Assuming he has insurance, which he obviously does, then his situation would remain unchanged.

What about the 45,000 annual deaths directly related to lack of insurance? http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... -coverage/


Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.


Actually, in Texas when Bush was governor, panels had been set up to involuntarily pull the plug on the elderly, if it was considered too expensive to keep that person alive... even above the objections of the family. Sound like death panels to me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


If you are going to make statements like that, I would suggest you provide a source.


I admittedly don't recall the source, but it's actually common knowledge - so much so that I believe someone had already posted this fact on WP.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Common knowledge is not a source, I could care less what the rumor mill says, if you are going to make an accusation like that you better provide a source.

Also something other than Mediamatters, MoveOn.org, and DailyKos plz.

Update:

I found what you are referring but what I found actually changes the entire story and shows Bush tried to stop it.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xp ... &tab=votes

The law was only passed due to a VETO OVERRIDE, Bush actually Vetoed it and was overridden.

Guess you can't believe common knowledge huh.

Read:
http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/ ... rovisions/


Well, if that's so, then I'll give Bush credit. But it still has to be remembered that this was done by Republican state legislators who are supposed to be so pro-life.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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23 Sep 2011, 8:09 pm

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Well, if that's so, then I'll give Bush credit. But it still has to be remembered that this was done by Republican state legislators who are supposed to be so pro-life.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually this was the Federal Level, I didn't find anything about the state level thing you were referring to, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was vetoing that as well. Also the primary people pushing this was Democrats.



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23 Sep 2011, 9:53 pm

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Well, if that's so, then I'll give Bush credit. But it still has to be remembered that this was done by Republican state legislators who are supposed to be so pro-life.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually this was the Federal Level, I didn't find anything about the state level thing you were referring to, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was vetoing that as well. Also the primary people pushing this was Democrats.


Are you certain about that being at the federal level? Because I don't know of any such thing like that around here.

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24 Sep 2011, 10:44 am

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Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.


"If you are going to make statements like that, I would suggest you provide a source."

I don't know if you are a politically motivated liar, or if you are merely wilfully ignorant. Neither is an appealing prospect.


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Those panels of politically appointed individuals that decide whether or not someone is valuable enough to get treatment.


"If you are going to make statements like that, I would suggest you provide a source."

I don't know if you are a politically motivated liar, or if you are merely wilfully ignorant. Neither is an appealing prospect.


Be careful what you ask for, because I actually do have a source.

From the Boston Globe: January 22, 2011
Opposition to government-funded end-of-life planning does not imply ignorance of the indignity or discomfort of having one more tube placed into one’s body to buy an extra few days of painful life. (Although one can imagine concluding that dignity is a highly overrated virtue when the alternative is death). But when a massive government bureaucracy, tasked with determining medical “best practices’’ and controlling costs, announces a policy that “wellness visits’’ should have us chatting with our doctors about what technologically invasive, life-extending procedures we would just as happily do without, we are not supposed to be suspicious?

Even aside from end-of-life counseling, any form of medical insurance, including ObamaCare, has to determine where the boundaries of coverage lie. Today, hospitals decide not to provide life-extending procedures all the time. In practice, for those who have no independent means, some form of utilitarian, “greatest good for greatest number’’ ethic is imposed whereby treatment is approved based on things like the likelihood of success and the potential lifespan of the patient. Much of the rigor of those considerations is already envisioned as part of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Conversely, medical technology is forever inventing new medicines and procedures that have the potential to extend life or cure the previously incurable. Each such technique inevitably passes through a phase where it is experimental, risky, and expensive. Often enough the sky is the limit and so late in life we are all liable to become, in the words of the late Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick, “utility monsters.’’

To the extent that ObamaCare ultimately succeeds in imposing uniformity on basic health care, it will likely lead to the creation of secondary markets for providing insurance against various health eventualities and access to “heroic’’ procedures to extend life. Water runs downhill and it’s a good thing that it does. First, we need to have people buy the expensive medicines and experimental technologies. Europe has discovered this as its regulated system of medicine has driven its pharmaceutical industry farther and farther behind that of the United States. Capping costs kills innovation.

But, in addition, Palin is right. Death panels are an inevitable consequence of socialized medicine. The law of scarcity demands them.

A mature discussion of health care must recognize basic economics so that we can think ahead on how to satisfy the demands of those who are not satisfied with base-level care.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-01-22/b ... -berwick/2

Oh btw, I know this is an op-ed article, but the author is Mike Stopa from Harvard University, so I'm going to guess the guy knows what he is talking about