Comments on: What “Death Panels”? http://www.jimmyng.com/blog/2009/08/what-death-panels/ Items of interest from here and there ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Johnny http://www.jimmyng.com/blog/2009/08/what-death-panels/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Johnny Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:39:57 +0000 http://www.jimmyng.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-436 yeah, maybe no "death panel" per sae (in literal terms) however, if a senior citizen is denied coverage (as it is happening today) or a very delayed decision on coverage for a medical procedure, how is that not a "death panel"? if a doctor is not given approval to perform a procedure, he/she would not get paid. would you perform the work if you were not sure you're going to get paid? insurance companies delay decisions on procedures for the sole purpose of gambling that the patient would die before they have to pay for that procedure. WAKE UP PEOPLE !!! yeah, maybe no “death panel” per sae (in literal terms)

however, if a senior citizen is denied coverage (as it is happening today) or a very delayed decision on coverage for a medical procedure, how is that not a “death panel”?

if a doctor is not given approval to perform a procedure, he/she would not get paid. would you perform the work if you were not sure you’re going to get paid?

insurance companies delay decisions on procedures for the sole purpose of gambling that the patient would die before they have to pay for that procedure.

WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!

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