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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Is it "mythology" that we currently have panels that arbitrate what is "medically necessary"? Is it "mythology" that standards of care are established and would be expanded?
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No. The mythology is in the words you correctly pointed out as powerful and moving: "death panel." In a sense, in Canada we have panels that arbitrate what is medically necessary and we have standards of care that are constantly being corrected and expanded. Where is Canada's "death panel"? Britain's? Australia's? (Or any other industrialized nation's besides the U.S. that happens to have some form of universal health care.) What's the myth here?
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Are you saying Obama's planning, strategy, execution, evaluation, modification abilities are a failure? I am.
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I'm calling the Palin effect a good thing and a bad thing. It's good in that it forces Obama to be even more clear than before about the bill. It's a bad thing in that he now has an even greater challenge: he has to cut through the sensationalized bullshit that Palin has stirred up to do it. I'm not sure if this is a result of Obama's failure to do a good job of formulating and executing the bill, or if it's more because there are too many people creating distortion.