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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 05:52 PM Jan 2017

GOP "Triage" Health Care Plan Is About Deciding Who Deserves To Live And Who Will Die.

The GOP is deliberately about using "triage method" that doctors use at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. What that means is that the medical staff decides if a person is worth saving or not. So based on cost under the GOP plan you will be allowed to die if it costs too much to treat you. There will likely be a schedule of costs and if you fall outside of such a guideline then you will NOT be treated. The disease or injury will be allowed to run its course.

There will be a limit on the amount of money. A decision will be made based on your value to society. If you are high ranking you will get care regardless of cost. If you are not then tough luck.

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GOP "Triage" Health Care Plan Is About Deciding Who Deserves To Live And Who Will Die. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 OP
Let's call the process Sarah Palin's Death Panels 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2017 #1
Death Panels (R) Achilleaze Jan 2017 #2
Death Panels???? lisa58 Jan 2017 #3
G☭P is basically implementing the "death panels" they falsely accused Obama of wanting. Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #4
Start Calling GOP Health Care - The Death Penalty Plan. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 #5
Exactly! This is now forever the Death Panel Health Plan to me. Squinch Jan 2017 #6
The DPP is a good name for it. roamer65 Jan 2017 #8
Mischaracterization of Triage, but I'll allow it... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #7
I Agree That My Version Does Mischaracterize Triage. And ---- TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 #10
Imagine what happens when someone is told they won't be treated and takes exception to it. roamer65 Jan 2017 #9
You Protestations Will Be Ignored. Period. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 #11
It's like Death Panels but without the panels many a good man Jan 2017 #12

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. Death Panels (R)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 06:03 PM
Jan 2017

The Republicans own it...and of course the freaking Concentration Camps (R) which they will contract out to Siberia in Russia.

Wounded Bear

(58,436 posts)
7. Mischaracterization of Triage, but I'll allow it...
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:46 PM
Jan 2017

True triage means treating the worst cases first, which is how you have to do it in emergency rooms, combat ORs, etc.

But the OP is probably right that Repub triage is based more on who can pay.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
10. I Agree That My Version Does Mischaracterize Triage. And ----
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 09:10 PM
Jan 2017

Yes your version is correct. Take care of the most serious and savable cases first. The cases extremely likely not saved are of course not treated. My version is a distortion of triage where the GOP does not want to treat serious and savable cases and even the less serious. They want to base their decision on cost. Yes you might need some really expensive treatment that will save your life. They want to deny you that treatment based on a cost schedule.

They would eliminate replacement surgery and life improvement surgery because it does not kill. They want to stop transplant surgery, aggressive cancer treatments, etc. They would base treatment on your VALUE to society. We know where the old go.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
9. Imagine what happens when someone is told they won't be treated and takes exception to it.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:51 PM
Jan 2017

You folks know what I am talking about and you know it will come.

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