Of rationing health care, death camps, Kaiser Permenente, and my 80+ year old mother . . .

[Triana]

I talked to my Mom today and she said she went for her checkup recently and the doc ordered a colonoscopy- since she's had polyps there before they like to keep an eye on that. BUT - the insurance wouldn't cover it. Why? She's over 80.

She went for a mammogram today but said she had to BEG the insurance company to cover it. Why? She's over 80

SO:

I GUESS that Kaiser Permenente figures that if you're over 80 and you get cancer - you can just DROP DEAD.

TALK ABOUT YOUR RATIONING AND DEATH PANELS. THERE YA GO - and it's NOT the big, bad "government" doing this in some skeery future scenario - it's the private for-profit insurance companies DOING IT NOW.

KAISER PERMENENTE apparently decided that Mom can just DIE if she gets cancer because it's not worth a few hundred of their precious MILLIONS to test her regularly.

If the insurance won't cover it because THEY'RE RATIONING HEALTH CARE AND DECIDING FOR HER THAT SHE SHOULD DIE IF SHE GETS CANCER ...

is someone like Mom supposed to DO?

Answer:

DROP DEAD!

Pfft!





THERE'S YA "DEATH PANELS" folks - we haz dem NOW.