The number is higher than 98 as blood cancer patients awaiting bone marrow or stem cell transplants are also impacted. I am one of them. I have worked and paid taxes my entire adult life. I was not "sick and poor" until after I was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009 and bankrupted by medical bills that include a medication that costs $4,500 and must be taken for life. What happened to me could happen to anyone. Adults make up 90% of newly diagnosed leukemia patients. Thanks for reporting on this.

The Teabaggers were right! At last, we see the government death panel that the Teabaggers worried about, in (of course) a Republican dominated state.

Wanna bet no Teabaggers protest this death panel's decision? We're not talking about their Gramma, so who cares?

Heh, Gov't plays doctor? how about not letting the gov't cap the costs of healthcare and not banning the practice of soulless corporations making a profit off of our sickness and suffering?

The plutocracy is just beginning, and the ignorant and arrogant tea-baggers are fueling the assent of the money-changers and profiteers. Unless we, the educated and progressive, take the media back, and with great force push against them, we are doomed. Obama, truthfully, has been a bust, and we should replace him in 2012 with a real progressive who will stand against the plutocracy with real strength. Throwing the poor and needy under the bus is just the beginning of corporatizing America. The public school system is also under attack from the right in the form of for-profit charter schools. Where will it leave the disenfranchised when our school system is turned over to profiteers?

BS. AHCCS (Arizona Medicaid) is still paying for transplants. However, in the Felix case, he was denied because he has Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is incurable and despite a transplant, Mr. Felix would likely be back in liver failure in the future. Now, here's another reality check -- do you honestly believe that such transplants will be covered under a national healthcare system? I find that hard to believe, libs.

A long list of excuses will now be presented by the right and why this is just left wing propaganda. They should hang their heads in shame to even considering one life or 98 or 980 is any less valuable then the mighty dollar in which they worship. They will throw around such terms as socialist when in actual fact they have no idea what they are talking about and I am thankful that every day I awake in a country that at the very least has a social conscience.

I find these comments, at the end of a controversial article, to be as edifying and interesting as the articles themselves, sometimes! I trust that the Truthout reporters scavenge the facts to report the truth - really it's my only chosen window to the outside world; so from here I learn the most, and I have high expectations! Anyway, I have been feeling disillusioned and almost frantically helpless when I get a chance to examine the state of things in the world and especially this country. Our government, in my opinion, is already dead but it hasn't laid down yet. We're like fish out of water and all we're doing is flapping around gasping for breath; but, gasp all we want, we are going down. I don't know if your familiar with that old movie where the citizens start yelling, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" I've been thinking that maybe one day there will be enough people to yell out that sentiment; where by shear numbers alone, do not have to fear retribution. This nation will not stay down, I have faith, but in the meantime I'm going to pray!

Excerpt HEALTHCARE FOR MY NEIGHBORS? Editorial, 500 words

Our medical and medical insurance ethos sadly is that sick people are good for business. That health care should be a money making machine is the mentality of a nation tricked into believing for-profit health care and medical insurance are superior to national health care as practiced in every other industrialized nation. In contrast the ethos of national healthcare is to keep people healthy in order to save buckets of money. It works. Every nation with national health care delivers health care for all at a fraction of the cost Americans pay. The incentives of public health care are opposite to those of a for-profit system.

I am a WWll veteran. My response to conservatives who are certain government can’t do anything right is that I am grateful for VA health care and for Medicare, both run by “the government” and paid for in the same way we pay for public education and the fire department, i.e., through public taxation.

Incidentally, a recent post says that medicare is run by "the government". Sadly that is not true. In this state Medicare is contracted to Palmetto, a private insurance company, wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross. Blue Cross makes money on their government contract the same way they make money on their regular policies. By denying service.

"the Arizona legislature has chosen to take away their hope in order to save an estimated $4.5 million.

Facing a projected $1.5 billion budget deficit, the state of Arizona has decided to make poor people pay with their lives instead of making rich people pay with their treasure."

In the past few years the AZ legislature gave themselves a total of 8 billion dollars per year raises. Since then they have done the worst job in history stepping on the rights of the people raising taxes cuttings services, and...not even considering that there would be a surplus if they hadn't given themselves unnecessary, undeserved, and unaffordable raises.

RESCIND THE RAISES!!!

A pity your healthcare isn't run by the government rather than the 'insurance' industry. Freedom for an individual to not be able to afford health care is hardly freedom at all. Our system isn't perfect, but its clearly a country mile ahead of the US in being able to provide good healthcare for all, and at a much lower overall cost. Watching the raging of American citizens against government provided healthcare causes people in my country to wonder "what is it with Americans? How can they be so committed to working and voting against their own best interests? What are they on?"

I say it is good that the RNP has gained the house perhaps people's frustration with the current state of affairs confronts the true agenda of the Republicans and all the cut-backs they are planning for the people they will understand the Republicans have not and have never been concerned about the working class people. While the 3% of America that owns America have and will continue to take your tax money and allocate it against youbut the only thing is, the hole they are digging for the working class takes y ears to dig out of.

It's capitalism, people -- not Republicans or Democrats, not Teabaggers or Obamanoids -- just capitalism: infinite greed as maximum virtue, boundless selfishness as ultimate good. Combine that with government that serves only the capitalists -- absolute power and unlimited profit for the ruling class, total subjugation and genocidal poverty for all the rest of us -- and you've got today's United States: the perfect tyrannocapitalist despotism, the de facto Fourth Reich.

I feel what Oregon is doing is the smarter way to go and that is just a sin for them to do that in Arizona... I'm surprised that they get away with that.. Why aren't the people up on their high horse and stop such shinanigens....

Folks, we are all going to die some day. Life expectancy in the US has increased by 30 years in the last century. IT'S NOT FREE!

There is a point of diminishing returns to all this. A very large amount of our health care cost is in the last year of life, and often brings a tremendous decrease in quality of life.

We need to accept death as a natural part of life. It does not make sense to say that the smallest extension of life is worth unlimited cost. Quality, not quantity!

I find it amazing that after all the Republicans screamed at the top of their lungs"DEATH PANELS DEATH PANELS" it is the Republican Party in a Republican state that has created death panels. I can't wait till we hear about how christian it is to let grandma and grandpa die and not prolong their miserable lives. How could a christian make old people live with the fact that they are making their children and grandchildren watch them suffer. thank you republican party for showing all the world exactly who is and always was in favor of death panels.

This so-called "Christian" nation is full of people merely posing as Christians. They claim to read the Bible but skip over Proverbs 21:13 - "Who so stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." And Proverbs 22:13 - "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich [think extending Bush's tax cuts to the wealthiest 2%], shall surely come to want." And Proverbs 28:27 - "He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse." And Psalms 41:1-3: 1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. 3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Christ must surely be sickened by those taking his name in vain, particularly those who do it the loudest (think Fox, i.e. Palin, Beck, etc.) and for whom Judgment Day awaits. They are among the Pharisees of our time. To the Pharisees of His time, Jesus said to them, "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." (Matthew 23:27-28). Jesus told the Pharisees that because of their hypocrisy God would assign them to the place of weeping and gnashing of teeth [aka Hell]. (Matthew 24:51).

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