Miami-Dade County Public Schools need... Examiner.com
23.08.09
Government-run health care: Medicare. When asked to justify why they consider proposed bills are dangerous "socialized medicine" even as they enjoy the benefits of government-run Medicare, many can offer no better than, "They will have to cut my Medicare benefits to pay for the rest of the plan." Some try to link alleged cuts in Medicare to the mythical "death panels" (term coined by failed vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska Sarah Palin): to cut money out of Medicare, all seniors will be visited by a government bureaucrat who will decide whether they are "worthy" of medical attention anymore, and if not, they will effectively be euthanized. It does not seem to matter that the provision of the bill in question (which has already been stripped from the bill due to the widely disseminated misinformation), originally proposed by a Republican, would merely have allowed Medicare to cover end-of-life consultations for seniors--totally optional--with their doctors, to discuss things such as living wills and hospice care in the event of terminal illness. The provision was in no way mandatory and in no way incentivized doctors to deny life-saving care to seniors. However, ugly rumors have their way of spreading and persisting in the face of evidence to the contrary (as in the case of the supposed "Obama birth certificate" uprising), especially when outlets such as Fox News and conservative talk radio keep insisting on them even when the facts are blatantly against them.
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