My daughter was a team supervisor at the local Obama care call center after a few years. She had been a medical front office and billing specialist before hand. She never could make sense out of the AHC act. How were the beneficiaries supposed to, if the staff couldn't either?
Truly.
I remember when the PPACA was still in the chamber. A Congressman stood up and said, I'm paraphrasing of course but this is what he was rightly criticizing about the bill. He said that he and other members were also lawyers. And that try as they might among them not one could make out what the bill was actually saying. Then he said, when lawyers can't figure this thing out the American people are in trouble.
He was right.
I remember too when activists against the PPACA would talk about the bill containing language pertaining to death panels. Panels of overseers that would review an elderly patients case, on a case by case basis, to determine if their malady was worth the expenditure given their advanced age.
42 USC 1320e-1: Limitations on certain uses of comparative clinical effectiveness research Text contains those laws in effect on December 24, 2019
From Title 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARECHAPTER 7-SOCIAL SECURITYSUBCHAPTER XI-GENERAL PROVISIONS, PEER REVIEW, AND ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATIONPart D-Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research
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I can tell you that I know a woman who's older sister, she was 97 at the time, was let to die. I won't go into the details because the case is still pending, however, the chart of this woman cross compared to what would be normal treatment for her condition is remarkable. In short, she was given pain killers and antibiotics for a condition that needed surgery and rehabilitation to insure her survival.
I know another woman who's niece was in hospital and while she was able to make a recovery because she was a young child, she none the less passed on. While her organs, unbeknownst to the family, were harvested for living donors.
The thing about the organ donor demarcation on the drivers license, as many states now allow, is that you aren't necessarily going to have your viable organs transplanted into a living donor. Rather, they are able to be used for scientific research instead. That you allow your viable organs to be donated is all that you know you are consenting to. There is no stipulation your donation actually be used to save someone's life.
And if someone who is rich and powerful needs an organ you are a match for if you're in the hospital, well, God be with you. VP Cheney received a heart transplant in a matter of weeks after he was told that was his only option after his latest heart attack.
And years ago in 1993 Pennsylvania Governor Casey made news in that he needed a double organ transplant.
He was on the operating table 24 hours after he was put on the transplant list.
Casey's Quick Transplant Renews Ethics Debate
People spend years on waiting lists for organ donations. But not those two.
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