Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Who Needs "Death Panels"?

Don't need no steenking Death Panels.

Will do it the other way:

An Obama administration plan to cut Medicare payments to heart and cancer doctors by $1.4 billion next year is generating a backlash that’s undermining the president’s health-care overhaul....

The proposal by Medicare, the government insurer for the elderly and disabled, is an effort by Obama to focus U.S. medicine on preventive care....

The cuts could have the unintended consequence of rationing care, especially in rural regions with a large number of Medicare patients, doctors said...

Some oncologists in rural areas may stop offering chemotherapy in the office, forcing patients to travel to more- distant hospitals...

"Rural regions" usually vote (R), anyway. Who needs THOSE people?

1 comment:

Steve Burri said...

Yeah, what IS wrong with Kansas anyway?