Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Arizona lawmakers' death panels

Death panels? Republican legislators in Arizona have now created just that.

The GOP-led Arizona legislature has just decreed that almost 100 low-income patients who need organ transplants just to live (and who had already been approved for the transplants) now won't be getting them. Lawmakers slashed the money for these procedures from the state budget.

Clearly, legislators don't know what necessary means. These transplants were necessary. Without them, the patients die.

Arizona has money for bailouts of rich private schools, so I'm sure it can come up with money for organ transplants for the working poor. For lawmakers to say they couldn't come up with the money for the transplants is a filthy lie. A filthy lie from filthy legislators.

What about the rich who need transplants? They can already pay for theirs. The poor cannot. Arizona is deciding who lives just because of their economic class.

Arizona lawmakers need to be put on trial for crimes against humanity.

(Source: http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131215308/arizona-budget-cuts-put-organ-transplants-at-risk)

25 comments:

  1. I agree with tim, this why we don't want government in charge of health care.

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  2. The government already ran health care before the federal health care law passed.

    Examples: There was already a law saying people couldn't travel to Canada to get prescription drugs at a reasonable price. There was already a law saying people couldn't buy all the Sudafed they needed. There was already a law against medical marijuana (in most states). And Texas (under Bush) passed a "futile care" law that is literally a death panel.

    If you don't want government running health care, then let's repeal those laws.

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  3. "Arizona lawmakers need to be put on trial for crimes against humanity."


    You're not serious. Should Gingrich be put on trial for crimes against humanity for welfare reform.

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  4. Yes. He should be. I've been saying for the past 14 years that he should be.

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  5. Yes. He should be. I've been saying for the past 14 years that he should be.

    Why?

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  6. What about the people who raised the Social Security Retirement age?

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  7. Are you on federal assistance per chance?

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  8. Then they need to find every Republican who voted to raise the retirement age and ask them to answer some very tough questions.

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  9. Then they need to find every Republican who voted to raise the retirement age and ask them to answer some very tough questions.


    Like?

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  10. So that the system could be more solvent?

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  11. It would be solvent if they hadn't mismanaged it.

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  12. The Republicans? The Republican Party mismanaged Social Security? Who was put in charge? Didn't the Democrats have any say in it? Define "mismanage".

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  13. The Republicans ran the country for years.

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  14. Please answer all of my questions. Wasn't it FDR who created the program? Isn't the SSA a non-partisan office?

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  15. The Democrats created it. The Republicans mismanaged it.

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  16. How? When? Give details. Or else you're just blaming your political enemies for flaws that are inherent in the system.

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  17. I'm beginning to think that you're not a very well-informed person.

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  18. Here's a kloo Ruf, er Dominic..the Repubs ran the country for almost ALL of recent history before Obama. THEY were the ones in charge of social security. NOT the Democrats. NOT Obama.

    THEY (the Repubs) mismanaged it. THEY looted it to pay for wars etc. $11T is GONE because THEY spent social security money for their own fantasy projects.

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  19. None of that had any basis in reality.


    Your numbers are made up, your knowledge of how the government functions is wrong, and you are unaware of how much the wars cost, or even the very nature of Social Security.



    You might as well have claimed that Republicans just raided the trust fund for the sole purpose of setting it on fire.


    You are an uninformed twit.

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