I remember when the last election came out and Palin went on a rant about "death panels". Honestly, I haven't read exactly what that specific piece of legislation entailed. I can't say whether it was wrong or right, because I didn't read it. But I know Palin has never stared down at a child that has spent the last year on a breathing machine with bedsores, infections, and eyes so consistently wide and dry they look more like prunes than eyes, if she had her pontifications would have been a little less polarized and "anti-death".
One thing I see time and time again is how poorly educated american politicians are about medicine, they are isolated from it. Whether it's the media clouding the picture or it's just laziness on the part of the politicians, they have no empathy or understanding for the less fortunate. It's sickening to watch a political debate on a major news channel about medicine, especially when no medical expert is involved, they throw statistics around that they have no comprehension of...some they actually had to have made up. My one piece of advise is that when medicine becomes a political debate again, as it always will, close your eyes and cover your ears. Go online and look up the stats, decide for yourself, understand the issues from objective sites, hell read wikipedia if you have to, but do not listen to what either side has to say about the issues in question, you'll be getting your opinion from someone little more educated on the matter than a picking a random man off the street.
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