Quote Originally Posted by jabarto View Post
"Death Panels" are nothing more than blatant scaremongering by the political right. Consider this:

Private insurance companies have entire departments of people whose sole job is to investigate a person's background and find a reason to disqualify them from their coverage. I'm not kidding. They will literally search for a reason not to pay out. In fact, you have a 50% chance of having your coverage dropped in the event of a life-threatening emergency.

Let me repeat that: the insurance companies have entire teams of people who will fabricate reasons not to provide the service they're being paid for. IT IS LITERALLY IN THEIR BEST INTERSTS FOR PEOPLE TO DIE RATHER THAN LIVE.

The reason for this is simple. Private comanies are, by definition, profit driven. Why would the government, who *does* have a vested interest in the health of the citizens, have any reason to kill them in the manner described in the article? Preposterous.
that is a ridiculous statement, because UK doctors and clinical policy has nothing to do with america, regardless of whether they are right or left.

if there is an editorial bent to this story it is fact that the telegraph seems to have a slight catholic leaning among senior editorial staff, who would disapprove of anything that smacks of euthanasia.

but this really is a non party political issue.