tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post6749185391001234622..comments2024-03-28T10:25:22.825+01:00Comments on Robert's Stochastic thoughts: Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14455788499385673507noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post-90157811164758925212009-08-11T19:38:52.732+02:002009-08-11T19:38:52.732+02:00Weeks ago, I began hearing nice people in church w...Weeks ago, I began hearing nice people in church worrying about Medicare benefits. Weeks have passed and where is the President to reassure people that Medicare benefits will not be cut?<br /><br />Interestingly, a prominent supposedly liberal economist at Berkeley wants Ezekiel Emanuel to write on health care for the Atlantic, as though Emanuel has not done enough damage in writing already (no surprise though).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post-4072524984929172742009-08-11T19:33:21.273+02:002009-08-11T19:33:21.273+02:00This is what is insane but this is from a health c...This is what is insane but this is from a health care adviser to the President, a President who is still not capable of promising that Medicare benefits will be preserved:<br /><br />http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf<br /><br />November, 1996<br /><br />Where Civic Republicanism and Deliberative Democracy Meet<br />By Ezekiel J. Emanuel<br /><br />This civic republican or deliberative democratic conception of the good provides both procedural and substantive insights for developing a just allocation of health care resources. Procedurally, it suggests the need for public forums to deliberate about which health services should be considered basic and should be socially guaranteed. Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity — those that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberation — are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post-132077753247137122009-08-09T20:05:26.307+02:002009-08-09T20:05:26.307+02:00I know this whole conversation is insane, but wher...I know this whole conversation is insane, but where is the Doctor (as a human being, not an abstraction) in all this? What on earth makes anyone think that Doctors will just start pushing people toward suicide to save the government a few bucks? Hippocratic Oath anyone?whhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10263765777920519337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post-69706971107794740402009-08-09T17:11:27.835+02:002009-08-09T17:11:27.835+02:00Its obvious that Lane knows nothing about medical ...Its obvious that Lane knows nothing about medical practice.Roger Albinnoreply@blogger.com