re: #123 flyovercountry

I think its important to note that there is a difference between acute and chronic care. Hospitals are acute care facilities only. A hospitals duty is to administer immediate care necessary to prolong life or heal. Once that is done, patients are sent home or to a chronic care facility. Once the docs responsible for determining treatment decide that nothing more can be done in the way of acute care, that’s it. This is when decisions are made to place a person into either hospice or chronic care, or possibly home. Hospital docs don’t always have a human side to them. That is why insurance companies offer grief counseling for family members who had been told by docs, nothing can be done. This counseling is all Palin succeeded in getting removed.

Sure, I’ll stipulate to everything you’ve described. The problem is you’re not explaining why it would be better for a government bureaucracy to make these decisions, rather than an independent and private insurance company or hospital board.

And, Palin didn’t ask for anything to be removed. She was criticize the foundational premise of Obamacare. It was Democrats and their friends in BigMedia that mischaracterized her comments as something critical of “end of life counseling”. Those words aren’t found anywhere in Palin’s original statement.