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Arizona death panel - Brewer lies

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Friday, December 10, 2010 10:43 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Brewer is a, well, When asked about the transplant thing, she said "“It’s a couple of incidences [sic] with bone marrow that was at issue…” Which is an out-and-out lie. Even "spin" doesn't work; just a lie. Gawd, I hate the hypocrisy!
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The cuts - which include certain kinds of pancreas, liver, heart, lung, and bone-marrow transplants - went into effect Oct. 1. Several national media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC, have reported on the impacts of Arizona's transplant cuts over the past two weeks, often dubbing the cuts "Brewercare" or "Brewer death panels."

As a result of news coverage, patients registered in the National Transplant Assistance Fund have seen a surge of donations. As of Saturday, Laveen liver-disease patient Francisco Felix had raised $74,124 and Mesa heart-transplant hopeful Randy Shepherd had raised $52,720, according to the organization. Both need to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

Democratic lawmakers, health-care professionals, patients and their families held a news conference on Tuesday to urge Brewer to restore the cuts.

"They're humans, just as much as every one of us here, as much as she (Brewer) is," said Sandra Felix, Francisco Felix's niece.

Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said Tuesday that he wanted to revisit the cuts when the Legislature returns in January, because new data "suggest that some, if not all, of these transplants should be reconsidered for reinstatement."

However, Brewer won't call a special session without a plan to close the funding gap. Spokesman Paul Senseman said the $30 million left in stimulus discretionary funds has all been spoken for, and it can't be reallocated.

The Arizona Republic requested records from the Governor's Office three weeks ago that would show how the stimulus dollars had been allocated. As of Tuesday, the office has pointed to a report filed with the federal government that covers expenditures through Sept. 30. The office has not yet provided any information on stimulus allocations from Oct. 1 to the present.

Senseman said Brewer was open to new solutions and ideas to solve the state's budget crisis, but that she had not seen any "legitimate" proposals or scientific data yet.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/12/08/20101208jan-brewer-o
rgan-transplants.html




So she won't even call a session to discuss the issue. I want to know what those stimulus funds (which of course she no doubt was against) are allocated to, and that she thinks all of those things are more important than human lives.

Yeah, only the public option would create death panels...you betcha. Oh, on that, Ms. "You betcha" had some things to say...
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"Death Panels" could be back, Sarah Palin says. But this time they are not the creation of the Obama administration. No, these are the handiwork of the bipartisan debt commission.

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the former Alaska governor takes aim at several of the controversial commission's recommendations, saying the cuts it proposes "implicitly endorses the use of 'death panel'-like rationing."

Palin highlights the commission's proposal for an Independent Payments Advisory Board, a committee, she says, that will make "bureaucrats, not medical professionals, the ultimate arbiters of what types of treatment will (and especially will not) be reimbursed under Medicare."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/10/palin-warns-of-new-dea
th-panels/#more-139218


Would an IPAB actually do that, or is it about other forms of "payment", I wonder?


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Friday, December 10, 2010 10:57 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

I am so tired of this 'Death Panel' scary sound-bite tool that reoccurs time and time again in political debates.

A group of people who withold and ration lifesaving resources from those in need? Is that a Death Panel?

Is there a way to create a system of limited resources to administer those resources that doesn't say no to somebody at some point?

If we have Universal Health care that is held to any budget or limited resource, aren't we denying some kind of medical treatment to somebody? If we don't have Universal Health care at all, aren't we denying medical treatment to somebody? Isn't somebody getting hosed no matter what we do or don't do? Aren't we all on a 'Death Panel?'

--Anthony

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Friday, December 10, 2010 11:20 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Taken to the extreme, you're probably right. But I would like to see more equality, for one thing. As it stands, if someone is rich enough, even if their cancer is terminal or something, they can cling as long as they can afford it, while others who could live and work and contribute are left to death because they need a transplant.

I don't think we have to take it to the ultimate extreme to improve the situation, and I think Brewer (and many, many private-insurance cases) are the epitome of hypocrisy (especially in lying about it to minimize it, refusing to hold a special session to at least DISCUSS the matter, and refusing to say what the stimulus dollars we all paid for are "allocated" for), and in the case of insurance companies, out-and-out greed.

Just my opinion on the matter.


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