Comments on: Emphasize Care, Not Rationing in Health Care

By: m2c

m2c — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:56:16 +0000

I know there are other folks who confirm what you said. You are ALL wrong! ALL misled, misguided, misinformed, blind, and/or fanatic little Bush followers many of whom are behaving like spoiled rotten children who had their favorite toy taken away — like the Wilson on the floor of congress the other day.
And I am very familiar with the Bush/Republican style of using the media to misdirect and misrepresent. ALmost like a magician’s trick. Distract the public’s attention with one thing while doing the “Trick” without anyone noticing.
I guess it’s just too hard to admit you all have been so wrong for so long and are responsible for this country being in the toilet. You all just want your power back. That’s it. But look what your power did. Ruined this country. Just ruined it.
I guess I’d be mortified too if I’d been a part of that. But please try to get over it so the US stands some chance at recovery.

By: Nancy Reyes

Nancy Reyes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:10:09 +0000

Ah, if you don’t understand what I write, then email BNN editor and have him fire me for the crime of poor writing ability.

But I did include links to support what I wrote about the ethical problems of the health care bill.

If you put your cursor over the underlined sentences and hit your mouse button twice, you can find other folks who confirm what I said.

By: m2c

m2c — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:06:55 +0000

If you are talking about your essay, Nancy, maybe if you wrote it better we’d stand a chance of understanding what you’re going around and in and out of the barn a dozen times trying to say.

If you are not talking about your essay then what the heck essay are you talking about?

AND what Palin said was denounced by a number of Republicans and you merely called it “overblown.” The best thing Palin could do is retire to an igloo and pile up snow to block the way out (and not take her computer with her).

By: Nancy Reyes

Nancy Reyes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:19:35 +0000

three comments from two people that haven’t read the essay.
Sigh.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:23:08 +0000

Ethicists are not decision makers in medical choices; they never have been. The ethicist is traditionally the sounding board to evaluate choices in a situation where there is conflict and/or no clear-cut option. Personhood and its constitutive properties are but a small slice of the considerations that need to be applied to medical-ethical dilemmas. I don’t know where you live, so perhaps the medical profession operates on a different set of standards, but medical decisions (even the hard ones) are made in most Western-Industrialized nations based upon an appraisal of the medical facts. For cases where throwing every medical intervention, drug, or technology at a condition clearly won’t realize benefit, the only thing left is harm. So, if the argument is that somehow not treating a severely retarded or terminal patient has diminished that patient’s personhood, that is a moral jump that can’t be supported. Reality, at times, trumps the ideal.

By: m2c

m2c — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:51:31 +0000

And you should be well read enough to know that Palin was completely WRONG and has been denounced by people in her (your) own party.
“Overblown,” Nancy?
You know what’s worse than Chicken Little? All of Chicken Little’s groupies running around parroting her.
Shame on you.
Bush health care = forget about it AND I’m taking your jobs away and running the economy into the ground but bailing out the big companies and obscenely paid “leaders” of those companies AND taking your privacy and freedoms away AND paying private military BILLIONS and protecting BIG BUSINESS ( but only the CEO and board members - eff the stockholders and public) AND taking away the few benefits as ever there were for people with disabilities AND we’re back to health care - forget about it.
All that thanks to Bush & Company = the Devil and his minions. Hope you like it where it’s hot, Nancy.

Bush/Palin/Nancy’s America = for the RICH only!
Shame on you all.

By: m2c

m2c — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:40:53 +0000

At least some ethics are involved vs the status quo: Care versus Cost = if it costs much, the health care company will find every way to avoid doing it. Then if they have to provide care they cancel the family’s insurance. And if a person/family has no insurance then you’re out of luck.
No insurance because the company you work for is too cheap to offer it (hires people “part time” to avoid it)? Or hires illegals so they don’t have to pay it?) then a trip to the Dr for a cold or the flu or bronchitis is hundreds of dollars!
Come on, Nancy. Do you care about your precious political party or do you care about people? I guess the answer is clear in your articles. It’s the old “I got mine. The heck with everyone else.”