The liberal subtext

The real horror stories of medicine started back in the 80's when Big Business decided to stick their nose in, and eventually take over, hospital business. Gradually over the past 25-30 years the focus of medicine has moved from the patient to the profit.
I don't know a lot about socialized medicine, but I do that someone needs to be making the hard decisions because families have to much guilt to make intelligent decisions. Do death panels actually kill or do they simply make the decision when to stop or deny treatment? Is is wise to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep someone alive who will never have any quality of life? Who pays for that?
Just wondering if you might be connected to the medical field in some way. Robin Cook was always a bit ahead of his time with his "medical horror". But often he is right on with was does, or could happen.
Please don't think I am trying to start a fight, I just found your post interesting.

I agree with you fictionalman. I have seen several countries medical systems in place and I wouldn't trade the US system (though it has some flaws and could use some streamlining) for the world. I watched in England as a young man with a severely infected cyst on his back was denied care until a "later" time of which the National Healthcare Service would oblige him, nevermind it was a month from his coming into the hospital. They didn't even give him antibiotics before they sent him packing out the door with a letter to come back for his scheduled appointment of which he probably would have a severe blood infection and be sick as a dog by then. So I can believe, that and I have medical professionals in my family that are probably going to leave the profession if Obama is re-elected because so much of the so called Affordable Healthcare Act is going to hamper and make their jobs worse. BTW the movie of COMA was not a dream.

Thousands die every day for no reason at all, where's your bleeding heart for them?