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NEWS ABOUT: rationing

rationing stories: 18 news summaries
Gail Collins

Welcome to
the Conspiracy
to Ration Mammograms

Don't you dare deny us unnecessary tests!

Nov 19, 09 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Republicans are right: the new government guidelines urging women not to have mammograms in their 40s are definitely a nefarious conspiracy to start rationing care. “Whatever happens, we do not want the government conducting any studies on whether current health practices actually do any good,” writes Gail Collins... More »

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breast cancer • preventative medicine • rationing • mammogram • Gail Collins • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Flu Plan Directs Docs to Take Sickest Off Life Support 

Plan could grant legal exemption to extreme rationing in case of disaster pandemic

Sep 24, 09 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities planning for a severe flu outbreak are drawing up rules for life-saving ventilators that instruct doctors to take severely ill patients off life support and give the equipment to those with a better chance of survival. The plan, to be used in an outbreak comparable to the pandemic that... More »

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doctor • hospital • rationing • outbreak • influenza • flu • 1918 pandemic • death panel

OPINION

 America 
 Needs to 
 Embrace 
 Death 

Lowering health care costs means cutting unnecessary end-of-life treatment

Sep 13, 09 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nobody wants to talk about rationing health care, but “the need to spend less money on the elderly at the end of life is the elephant in the room in the health-reform debate,” Evan Thomas writes in Newsweek. To expand coverage and lower costs, Americans must overcome their... More »

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health care • health care costs • death • rationing • health care reform • death panel • end-of-life care

Health Reform
'Gang of Six'
at Death's Door

Bipartisan effort has devolved into sniping, members showboating

Sep 1, 09 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The bipartisan “Gang of Six” lawmakers working on health care reform looks like history, Ezra Klein reports in the Washington Post. Yesterday, the White House slammed one of the group’s members, Sen. Mike Enzi, after he trashed the Democratic plan for "making the economy sicker without saving... More »

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White House • rationing • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Max Baucus • bipartisan • Mike Enzi

Obama Wouldn't Cover Kennedy: Huckabee

Says under Dem plan he'd be told to 'take pain pills and die'

Aug 29, 09 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Passing health care reform in Ted Kennedy’s honor “not only defies good taste, it defies logic,” Mike Huckabee declared yesterday. Adding his own take on Sarah Palin's death panel meme, he said that under Democratic health care proposals, Kennedy would have been told to “go home... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Mike Huckabee • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • President Obama

(Newser) - Cuba is battling a toilet paper shortage, the Miami Herald reports. The country says the global financial crisis and recent hurricanes have forced it to shutter factories and cut down on electricity usage. The result: The cost of a four-pack of TP in Havana is the equivalent of 2... More »

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communism • Newsweek • toilet paper • Cuba • imports • resources • rationing • hurricane • Havana • Fareed Zakaria

Jon Stewart Takes On Death Panel Lady

'I don't know how your brain works,' he tells McCaughey

Aug 21, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart devoted most of his show yesterday to sparring with Betsy McCaughey, whose articles helped start the “death panel” rumor—and kill the Clinton health care plan in 1994. McCaughey strode onstage carrying a massive binder containing the first half of the House bill. “This bill is... More »

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rationing • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • health care reform • death panel • Betsy McCaughey

health care town hall

 Obama Takes On Rationing,  
 'Death Panel' Rumors 


Aug 11, 09 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama took the stage in New Hampshire today to set the record straight about Democratic health care reform efforts. Though the crowd was all applause, Obama took on the raucous protests that have characterized recent town halls. “Let's disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations,... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • health insurance • rationing • health care reform • town hall meeting • women's issues • death panel • deathers

ooops

British Health Care Would Kill Hawking...

...say foes of reform, forgetting that Brit physicist lives in UK

Aug 11, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Opponents of health care reform should be careful how they use the terrifying example of Britain’s socialized system. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stumbled upon an editorial on Investors Business Daily that asserts that “people such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where... More »

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Stephen Hawking • England • National Health Service • rationing • Britain • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • socialized medicine

OPINION

Health Care Opponents Aren't (All) Crazy

They aren't 'delusional' for equating reform
with fewer choices

Aug 11, 09 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are definitely crazy black helicopter watchers amongst the screaming masses of health care foes, but most of the people filling town halls are “confused and concerned Americans,” writes Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. “And they have a point.” Robinson’s a self-proclaimed “... More »

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health care costs • protests • universal health care • rationing • health care reform

OPINION

Guess What, Sarah? Those 'Death Panels' Already Exist ...

... they're being run by insurance companies

Aug 11, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin thinks health care reform will bring with it “death panels,” collections of bureaucrats who will ration care, deciding whose life is and isn’t worth saving. The flaw in that logic? “That’s not the future of health care—it’s the present,” writes... More »

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health care • health insurance • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • insurance industry • Sarah Palin • women's issues • deathers

OPINION

 Ezekiel Emanuel 
 No 'Doctor Death' 

Reform opponents grossly distort bioethicist's record

Aug 11, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - To hear conservative bloggers tell it, Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s brother, is a bean-counting euthanasia enthusiast who wants to deny care for the disabled. The New York Post dubbed him a “deadly doctor,” and Sarah Palin warned supporters to fear his “Orwellian thinking.” It’s... More »

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assisted suicide • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel • medical ethics

(Newser) - Conservatives are pulling no punches as they attack health care reform, but their scare tactics rely “on a notably elastic approach to the truth,” writes Mike Madden of Salon. Here are the top myths circulating:
  • Obama wants to kill your grandma: The tiny kernel of
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health care • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform

OPINION

It's Time for 'The Talk' About Rationing Care

At end of life, openness reduces stress for all: Goodman

May 8, 09 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two weeks before she died, Barack Obama’s terminally ill grandmother had a hip replacement. Obama said he’d have paid for the operation, but questioned whether society should have to. “I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues,” he said. But maybe morality and... More »

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Barack Obama • Medicare • living will • death • rationing • Madelyn Dunham • President Obama

 LA Moves to Ration Water 

Statewide water shortage means LA may impose first water limits since 1991

Feb 18, 09 2:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Los Angeles is taking steps toward rationing water for the first time since 1991, reports Reuters. The LA Department of Water and Power has approved a plan to charge a penalty rate for water use over a set monthly limit that will take effect in May unless it is vetoed... More »

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California • drought • water • Los Angeles • rationing • shortage • water shortage

Calif. Town to Cut H2O
to Water Hogs

Customers limited to 150-gallon-a-day ration

Feb 4, 09 9:06 AM CST
(Newser) - A California town is threatening to cut off water to any customer who fails to stick to a mandated 150-gallon-a-day ration, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. "People don't understand how bad this is going to get," said an official from the oceanside town of Bolinas, who fears the... More »

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California • drought • rationing • tap water

Oxford Evacuates as Water Rises

UK flood disaster continues

Jul 25, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of residents were evacuated from their Oxford homes today as water levels along the Thames neared their height. In the worst flooding the UK has seen in 60 years, hundreds of thousands are without drinking water, and power plants supplying many more are threatened. More »

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Gordon Brown • Oxford • flood • flooding • Gloucestershire • rationing • relief • Britain

Iran Erupts Over Gas Rationing

Leaders fear West will cut fuel imports

Jun 27, 07 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angry Iranians torched Tehran gas stations yesterday and smashed windows as protests against gas rationing turned violent, the BBC reports. Motorists formed huge lines to fill  tanks before new laws took effect limiting Iranians to 26 gallons of gas a month. Despite its oil reserves, Iran is short of refining... More »

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Iran • oil • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • gas • protests • embargo • rationing

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