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Posted by destructive Gorthak
on Aug. 14, 2009 12:00 UTC
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Posted by Reynard on Aug. 14, 2009 13:07
#2: What a joke! Also, you'll notice how it says that there are 2 comments posted but none in the actual "Comments" page? Well, here's the one that I submitted:
Poll? You have the utter *nerve* to call this rank piece of Karl Rovian swill a poll??? This is an absolute travesty! It's modern Yellow Journalism at it's most manipulative! The question itself is based on a proven lie! (Yes, I'll say it again: "The question itself is based on a proven lie!") Here are a few relevant facts for the enlightenment of your readers (because I very much doubt that *you'll* pay any attention!):
1. "Obamacare" (as you so cynically put it) will *NOT* "ration" health care. In fact, health care is de facto currently rationed by the health insurance industry by their practice of arbitrarily/capriciously refusing/denying/dropping *anyone's* policy *anytime* for pretty much *any reason!* The reform plan that Obama has put forward would, simply, ask that care be administered more efficiently by giving more information on relevant treatments for specific ailments/injuries and letting the patients and their doctors decide on the best course of treatment.
2. The only mention of things like "euthanasia" and "death panels" has been in the slimier precincts of the right-wing punditry and political hackdom. (Yeah, I'm lookin' at *YOU* Sarah Palin!) The *actual* proposal would simply let doctors get paid for advanced care directives (Living Wills, DNR orders, etc.) consultations. (Which, by the way, have been going on since 1999 without the doctors getting paid for it -- with no outcry... at least until it became politically convenient for the above-mentioned pundits and hacks to do so...) No one -- repeat, *NO ONE* -- would be "forced" to do this. If you decide that Grandma or Grandpa should be left hooked up to those monitors and machines until Doomsday while the hospital and insurance company drain your life savings away, this plan *will not change that!*
This "poll", in short, is nothing more than a blatant fraud! And that a so-called "newspaper" has chosen to foist such a steaming pile of manure on it's (presumably paying) subscribers and readers is a sad testament to how low some of the American press is willing to kowtow to the health "care" industry and it's minions. For shame, Sonoran "News", for shame...
I can only wonder why their moderators didn't let it through -- and whether the other comment was of the same bent as mine...
Reynard: Um, disregard that "#2:" thing. Not sure what I was thinking there...justjoe: Hey Reynard, Thanks for putting into words what many of us[US]thimk. peace, joeReynard: Thanks! And, not to sound like an ungrateful douche, but whenever some moron --...
