{"id":40181,"date":"2013-11-26T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40181"},"modified":"2013-11-26T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:40:53","slug":"who-told-you-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40181","title":{"rendered":"Who Told You This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obamacare will <\/em>have “death panels”, just like Sarah Palin said.<\/p>\n

This according to Ted Nugent:<\/p>\n

“It’s built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be part of how costs are controlled,” Halperin told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, they’re not called “Death Panels” – but, as we discussed in the past<\/a>, HMOs are built around the idea of “Case Management”, which means “make sure the cost of the care is commensurate with the benefit received”.\u00a0 Don’t don’t transplant the liver of a 21 year old into a 70 year old alcoholic diabetic who’s already past their life expectancy if there’s\u00a0 a 30 year old who’d benefit more, for an extreme example.<\/p>\n

And no, it wasn’t Ted Nugent.\u00a0 It was that noted conservative tool Mark Halperin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obamacare will have “death panels”, just like Sarah Palin said. This according to Ted Nugent: “It’s built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be part of how costs are controlled,” Halperin told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.\u00a0 Oh, they’re not called “Death Panels” – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-campaign-16","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40184,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181\/revisions\/40184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}