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Health Reform, the Stimulus and Hitler’s Aktion T-4

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1. Simon, on August 14, 2009 at 9:23 AM said:

   Dr. Marcinko,

   Your readers may learn more from this article on “Death Panel” rumors:

   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32412764/ns/politics-the_new_york_times

   Thanks for the early warning.

   Simon

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2. Simon, on August 17, 2011 at 12:25 PM said:

   The Economics of Sterilization

   When it comes to sterilization, Denmark has had a rather turbulent history.

   In 1929, in the midst of rising social concerns regarding an increase in sex crimes and general “degeneracy,” the Danish government passed legislation bordering on eugenics, requiring sterilization in some men and women. Between 1929 and 1967, while the legislation was active, approximately 11,000 people were sterilized – roughly half of them against their will.

   Then, the policy was changed so that sterilization was still available, still free, but not involuntary. And as you might expect, the sterilization rate in Denmark dropped down dramatically – and stayed this way until 2010.

   The Economics of Sterilization

   Simon

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3. Donna, on November 7, 2011 at 3:36 PM said:

   Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks

   Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, NC, in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes.

   http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8640744-victims-speak-out-about-north-carolina-sterilization-program-which-targeted-women-young-girls-and-blacks

   OMG Dr. Marcinko, it happened here, too! Could it happen again under Obama Care?

   Donna

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4. Pepe, on March 21, 2013 at 10:02 AM said:

   Why we need ‘death panels’

   We’re taxing young people and running up debt to fund an overpriced system and offer end-of-life ‘care’ that may not do much good.

   http://money.msn.com/investing/why-we-need-death-panels

   It’s time to put scary monikers aside.

   Pepe

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5. Donna, on August 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM said:

   Death Panels in Oregon

   According to Austin Frakt PhD, the WSJ editorial page is back today, with warnings of DEATH PANELS!

   Liberal states often preview health-care central planning before the same regulations go national, which ought to make an Oregon cost-control commission especially scary. On Thursday a state board could change Oregon’s Medicaid program to deny costly care to poor patients who need it most.

   Like most such panels, including the Affordable Care Act’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, the Oregon Health Evidence Review Commission, or HERC, claims to be merely concerned with what supposedly works and what doesn’t. Their real targets are usually advanced, costly treatments. That’s why HERC, for example, proposed in May that Medicaid should not cover “treatment with intent to prolong survival” for cancer patients who likely have fewer than two years left to live. HERC presents an example to show their reasoning for such a decision: “In no instance can it be justified to spend $100,000 in public resources to increase an individual’s expected survival by three months when hundreds of thousands of Oregonians are without any form of health insurance.”

   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324522504579000560184822956.html

   The piece then goes on to rail against Medicaid, and HERC, for trying to limit what Medicaid will cover.

   Donna

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6. Simon, on October 29, 2013 at 9:16 PM said:

   A kidney for $10,000?

   Paying donors actually pays off, new study finds.

   http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kidney-10-000-paying-donors-actually-pays-new-study-finds-8C11459939

   Simon

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7. Judson, on November 20, 2013 at 2:42 PM said:

   Joseph P. Franklin is Executed
   

   Missouri and other states have had to change their drug formulas for executions and turn to lightly regulated compounding pharmacies to buy them. Major drugmakers in recent years have halted production of some execution drugs or ordered that they not be used in executions.

   Like other states, Missouri long used a three-drug execution method. After drugmakers stopped selling those drugs to prisons and corrections departments, Missouri turned to a single drug for execution, propofol.

   But Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Department of Corrections to come up with a new drug after an outcry from the medical profession over planned use of the popular anesthetic in an execution. Most propofol is made in Europe, and the European Union had threatened to limit exports if it was used in executions.

   The corrections department then turned to pentobarbital made through a compounding pharmacy. Few details have been made public about the compounding pharmacy, because state law provides privacy for parties associated with executions. Franklin was executed with pentobarbital.

   http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/20/21545307-white-supremacist-who-killed-blacks-and-jews-is-put-to-death-in-missouri?lite

   Judson

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8. Rutiger, on December 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM said:

   The cheapest form of health care is to let sick people die

   A discussion of moral hazard as the cause of medical price hyperinflation.

   http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/12/cheapest-form-health-care-sick-people-die.html

   Rutiger

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9. Leonard, on May 2, 2014 at 5:34 PM said:

   Botched Execution ‘Deeply Troubling’

   President Barack Obama recently said that a botched execution in Oklahoma is “deeply troubling” and highlights “significant questions about how the death penalty is being applied” in the United States.

   http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/obama-botched-execution-deeply-troubling-n95746

   So, have we learned anything at all, since WW-II?

   Leonard

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10. Frank, on June 11, 2014 at 8:26 PM said:

    Who’s making the decisions about your health care?

    Are insurance companies making more decisions about the health care you receive? While a decade or two ago utilization nurses working for insurance companies had some power to approve or reject certain treatments, the reach of insurers into the patient-physician relationship is lengthening.

    http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/06/whos-making-decisions-health-care.html

    So, is this rationed care … by another name?

    Frank

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11. Walter, on September 18, 2014 at 12:43 PM said:

    We don’t save every baby we could
    [Maybe that’s OK]

    Not all premature infants are saved and not all of those treated in [neonatal intensive care units] and survive receive the subsequent care we might wish for them.

    http://newsatjama.jama.com/2014/09/17/jama-forum-high-tech-care-can-save-lives-but-it-also-may-create-incentives-that-result-in-lives-lost/

    This reality of the implicit trade-offs is hard to confront, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

    Walter

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12. Lewis, on October 18, 2014 at 12:49 PM said:

    Why I Hope to Die at 75

    An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/

    An essay by Ezekiel J. Emanuel MD.

    Lewis

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13. Brandy Collins, on October 18, 2014 at 11:30 PM said:

    When I’m 64 … Oh, I mean 75

    Lewis – Such statements would be almost laughable if not for the article you cited by Ezekiel Emanuel MD in the Atlantic.

    According to this prominent author, and proponent of Obamacare, we (and society) will be better off if nature takes its’ course swiftly and promptly when over seventy five years old.

    And why not? Zeke tells us it is so.

    Brandy Collins
    [Director for Executive Recruitment and Search Manager]
    RPA Inc.

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14. Donna, on November 3, 2014 at 11:58 AM said:

    Compassion & Choices

    Compassion & Choices is the leading nonprofit organization committed to helping everyone have the best death possible.

    https://www.compassionandchoices.org/who-we-are/about/

    They offer free consultation, planning resources, referrals and guidance, and across the nation we work to protect and expand options at the end of life.

    Donna

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15. Ali, on November 3, 2014 at 7:30 PM said:

    How Brittany Maynard may change the right-to-die debate

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-brittany-maynard-may-change-the-right-to-die-debate/ar-BBcMoXH

    The sea change has begun.

    Ali

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