Medicare death panels - FALSE!

[Guest guest]

I can't say anything for sure about the truth of TBayuk's reported experience

with his (her?) doctor, as described in the mail titled " Seniors BEWARE - BE

SURE TO READ THIS ONE! " . Maybe that really happened to TBayuk. But I can easily

doubt it. The entire letter, word for word, can be found at:

http://www.infowars.com/death-panels-senior-claims-government-denied-him-medical\

-care/

Unless TBayuk wrote that letter to infowars.com, it was written by somebody

else.

And, the second half of the letter (also presented as if he/she had written it),

that starts with the quotes from Dr. Sue , is known to be a bunch of

malarkey. Take a look at this link to Snopes: (Or read the excerpt below)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/over75.asp

Here is part of the Snopes report about Dr. . More info at the Snopes link.

" According to a representative for City Medical Center (Ed Herbert, Vice

President, Mountain State Health Alliance Communications and Marketing), the

substance of the message is untrue, and the related conversation did not take

place as stated:

While dramatic in nature, the conversation [above] is not true. The originator

of the email was a guest in Dr. Suzanne 's home. He is using Dr. 's

name and that of City Medical Center (JCMC) to wrongly promote his

political position. Another issue is that Dr. , who the blog names as

[someone in a position of] ER leadership or more, is one of our incredibly

skilled and caring ED physicians in the level I trauma center/Emergency

Department at JCMC, [but is] not in any leadership role. She was very upset that

the individual would fabricate a conversation about healthcare reform and use

her name to add credibility to his position.

The statements attributed to Dr. were not said, the statements about

City Medical Center are not true. The healthcare reform law, according

to Dr. , does not change the way in which she cares for her patients. From

a hospital point of view, if there has been any effect from the healthcare

reform law, it has been increased access for patients.

No such denial is necessary to debunk this item, however. The simple fact is

that, repeated spurious claims to the contrary notwithstanding, no provision of

the " Obamacare " health care legislation mandates or authorizes the creation of

" ethics panels " to determine which patients should or should not receive various

medical treatments, based on their age or any other criteria. "

Medicare death panels are nothing but a false, paranoid conspiracy theory.

Please do not be duped.

Charmoon