Death panel
A Death Panel, also known as "Death Council", is a group of people that would purportedly make life-or-death healthcare rationing decisions based on subjective criteria of a person's worth to society. The concept reexamined during the debate over the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") in 2009. Its foremost champion at the time was Sarah Palin, who may have started it with this post to Facebook.
Life or death outcomes from decisions about availability or non-availability of health care have been occurring throughout human history. In the United States these decisions ultimately arise from the free market system, both before and since the enactment of Obamacare. Under Obamacare, there has often been more government bureaucracy involved in the process, but it has always been complex.
Obamunism
The issue arose from the belief that, under Obamacare, doctors are required to discuss end-of-life options with elderly patients, perhaps encouraging them to end their lives. The claim, by Betsy McCaughey on a radio talk show in July, 2009, was that "Congress would make it mandatory ... That every five years, people in medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner, how to decline nutrition." What actually happened was that doctors would be compensated for giving advice, to patients that request it, about end-of-life planning.
End-of-life planning, such as "living wills" and "do not resuscitate" (DNR) directives, has been around for a long time. The issue is whether doctors are compensated for these discussions. A huge amount of the "red tape" that drives medical decisions revolves around what actions are compensated for by insurance. The practice of medicine is largely driven by these policies. Regrettably, the amount of such red tape has been increasing, both before Obamacare and since. There are policies governing what kinds of surgeries insurance will pay for, and how long a hospital stay will be compensated, and so on. Only by going to completely privately funded healthcare, free of any kind of insurance, can one completely get around this.
A history of the debate may be found here.[1]
CCP pandemic
- See also: CCP pandemic
Pennsylvania
As the secretary of the Pennsylvania Health Department during the CCP pandemic, Dr. Rachel Levine ordered nursing homes that house healthy seniors to take in COVID-19 positive patients, which resulted in thousands of needless deaths.[2] By mid-May 2020, two-thirds of all coronavirus-related deaths in the state occurred in nursing homes.[3] A liberal hypocrite, Levine removed his own mother from a personal care home as the deaths rose dramatically.[3][4]
New York
Rather than construct quarantine gulags on the Chinese communist model, Cuomo mandated that longterm nursing home facilities accept Covid 19-positive patients. Despite the scientific evidence, [[New York] Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued the decree anyway.[6] The virus spread like wildfire among the elderly, mostly Babyboomers, giving New York the highest death toll from the CCP virus.[7] New York's death toll accounts for 30% of the U.S. fatality rate.
Frontpage Mag reported:
| Cuomo's Department of Health had issued an order that, "no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19" and also prohibited requiring testing of returning patients. Sending hospitalized patients with coronavirus to the same mismanaged nursing homes was a death sentence for countless seniors in those facilities.[8] |
The Cuomo administration then deliberately tried to coverup the extent of the carnage by undercounting deaths.[9]
Hospital and nursing lobbies and committees donated as much as $2.3 million in campaign cash to Cuomo and co. in the 18-months before the coronavirus catastrophe and was a major support to him in a narrowly won re-election. And for all that, Cuomo personally removed the one deterrent that would have forced nursing homes and hospitals to actually care for their patients and incentivize them to prevent to spread of the China virus – accountability.[10]
Cuomo's order sent 6,400 COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes - the highest risk group.[11]
See also
References
- ↑ "WHAT IS AN OBAMA DEATH PANEL?" Obama Death Panel 2009. N.p., 2009. Web. 1 Dec. 2015. <http://www.obamadeathpanel2009.com/>.
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Bleau, Hannah (May 12, 2020). Governor Defends PA Health Secretary Rachel Levine over Botched Nursing Home Policy. Breitbart News. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Scolforo, Mark (June 26, 2020). Health secretary defends pandemic response in nursing homes. Associated Press. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Kengor, Paul (May 29, 2020). Pennsylvania’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Scandal. The American Spectator. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Feuerherd, Ben (May 13, 2020). Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed. New York Post. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ↑ Two references:
- McKelvey, Wallace (May 14, 2020). Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s removal of mom from care home amid epidemic draws scrutiny. pennlive.com. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Hasson, Peter (May 13, 2020). PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients. Daily Caller. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ↑ https://gellerreport.com/2020/10/cuomos-mass-murder-casket.html/
- ↑ https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Cuomo-defends-nursing-home-policies-as-long-term-15284326.php
- ↑ https://apnews.com/4042f05613ee4259b7a44d4466a0a02a
- ↑ https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/1-5-coronavirus-deaths-could-have-been-prevented-daniel-greenfield/
- ↑ https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/15/new-york-coronavirus-reporting-nursing-home-deaths-undercounting/
- ↑ https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2020/05/27/gov-cuomo-shields-nursing-homes-from-criminal-lawsuits/
- ↑ https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/gov-cuomos-order-6000-coronavirus-patients-nursing-homes/