Savage guest warns that universal healthcare will lead to "destroying human life," via assisted suicide for depressed and suicidal individuals

Dr. Breggar? Dr. Bregan?

Whatever. Doctor of what?

What utter nonsense. Even those who support a patients right to die (as I do) do not support the use of this practicve for those with depression. More hyperbole from idiots who want only to misinform and confuse the ignorant.

Doctor Weiner, is that right?

It's not all that often that Sewage's guests are even stupider than he is.

But...???

Let the sh*tstorm begin. The health insurance robber barons will pour millions into this propaganda campaign... they have a lot to lose.

What does universal healthcare have to do with assisted suicide?

The 'doctor' reminds me of the WKRP in Cincinnatti episode that aired this past Sunday on WGN, where Bailey Quarters had a show and an 'expert' on 'children' was on, and turned out to be a total quack.

I live in Sweden and we have universal healthcare. I just don´t get why these people don´t want everyone to be able to afford healthcare.

On a sidenote, I hope they ban him from going to Sweden aswell, his mere prescence would lower the standard of living in this country....

Is his guest reading a script on a tape recorder?

is mr. savage depressed and suicidal, by chance? :)

Sounds suspiciously like Mark Levin. Doctor WHO? From WHERE?

I seriously doubt that PUBLIC or NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (and that's what we're talking about here, that's the only issue on the table in the present National Policy initiatives being proposed in this matter), I doubt Public Health Insurance would ever cover "assisted suicide."

Medicare couldn't possibly be presently covering "assisted suicide", and it's Medicare coverage we're essentially talking about when we talk about Public Health Insurance.

The current National Policy issue that's being considered, is essentially just an expansion of the Medicare program, to insure and cover more Americans than it presently does... to perhaps cover any and every American who would elect for Medicare... but to expand Medicare to include more Americans at least, especially to include those who cannot afford private health insurance premiums, or those Americans who cannot afford those premiums and still make a mortgage payment or still save for a child's college education or otherwise still be able to save money for the future, that's what this National Policy issue is all about: expanding Medicare to more Americans than are presently covered by that Public or National Health Insurance program.

This may be obvious to you already, but I typed it out and capitalized PUBLIC or NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE to emphasize those words, because that's presently their tactic to confuse and distract many Americans on this issue, by continually invoking 'healthcare', when in fact its all about HEALTH INSURANCE.

If there was a real way for people with depression to get decent treatment, maybe they wouldn't be suicidal. Even the best health plans only cover ten or so mental health visits a year.

Only a sick and warped mind could possibly come to those conclusions.
What kind of perverse thinking would lead someone to say all those atrocious things?

I feel like I'm back in the late 50's sitting through a "duck and cover" public dis-information film. Remember when those under the ground home away from home refuges were all the rage - the perfect oasis to guard you against the evils of renegade tornadoes and Cuban missles. Now these good Christians are guarding us against the evil financial and moral destruction all of us will endure if we provide access to health care for the poorest among us, care that is explicitly called for in the good Book. I am sickened and digusted with how "freedom of speech" is used to protect the rights of folks like MS and RL to flood the airways with scare tactics and yet denounce anyone who questions the truth of what they are promulgating. I, for one, yearn for the days when we were only subjected to nightly news at 6 and 10, delivered by professionals who were careful to provide the facts sans their opinions. Those who did express opinions were also careful to state that their opinions were personal and did not reflect those of their stations. Now we have 24/7 propoganda parading as hard news. Anyone who questions the status quo is a demonized liberal or in this case a demonized "progressive" or in RL's terms a "femi Nazi". Why have we become a nation that feeds on pundit entertainer's crass opinions that leverage name calling and bullying to solidify their stances? I see degreed and non-degreed people falling for this quackery so I'm not sure what the missing linke is for most Americans unless it's a working knowledge of history, culture, geography, socio economics, religion, anthropology, psychology, civics, economics, etc. In other words, a lack of valuing spneding one's time acquiring the knowledge and tools to rationally decode the sound bite messages we consume without question. As a nation, we need to stop deferring to the "experts" and begin to trouble ourselves with real work learning about whatever issues we are passionate about. We are finally figuring out that buying our selves into prosperity is not a financially sustainable model. I would hope that we can transfer this same insight about destructive consumption to the challenge of how we acquire and digest news. I am clearly frustrated by the mainstream news outlets and the glam, time and big dollars afforded to celebrity talking heads. We need to stop our obsessions with their personal "brands" and start building a likewise obsession for our personal awareness. For those Americans who want to trust what they are hearing without question, this will sound anti-American to their ears. We have been enculturated/corportized to the point that we have become zombic in our feeding frenzies. I can't imagine that we have a future as a democracy in light of our willingness to be slaves to others' opinions.

Geuss who pays for health care our taxes. Who benefits the Gov and the select few Pharm Co. that are selected. We all pay