CNN's Gupta: "I can tell you, as a practicing physician ... rationing does occur all the time" currently

So now it finally comes out. Lets see what the right extremists will come up with now since rationing health care already is occurring. They get up in these town hall meetings and sprout talking points and some things have been happenning for years.

Well, wow! Some one finally said it...

But free market rationing is ok! It's just when our "evil government" is involved that it becomes a problem.

Thank You Doctor Gupta

you are one of the few shinning stars of your station please keep up the good work.

BC/BS does it all the time as does United Health Group. They have analysts who get bonuses for denied claims. It's been happening for years.

Except they insurance company doesn't call it rationing...it's called rescission...

Such as, "You have sickle cell anemia?? I know you've been a customer of ours for 15 years, but let me look at your application...wait, you wrote on your application that you had no neurological ailments, but a doctor's note in a physical from 1990 said that you got dizzy from standing up too fast... we're cancelling your insurance, and we'll be forwarding the bills for your recent doctor visits to your home address."

The front page of the LA Times earliers this week was a free clinic that was held at the Forum. Filled to capacity.

Exactly. Everything the right is trying to stir up fear about is already happening with private insurance companies. I guess what they're really saying is private insurance companies are evil. I can get behind that.

God, Here we go again--using facts like they were proof.
Have you no shame, Dr. Gupta? Don't you see how facts just get in the way of baseless fearmongering?

This is just another evil ACORN plot and you have played right into their hands! The only way they can pay for health care is by killing my granny! Read the bill! The socialists are at the gates! The UN is behind this. They want to take away my guns, kill my granny and send me to a re-education camp! I want my country back!!!!!

Isn't what is truly astounding is that there are so many people (right here on these threads) that do not already know that? Or do not already know that without what little government provided healthcare we already have that hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of our oldest and poorest citizens would be dying daily as if they lived in a third world country. Or do not realize that as long as healthcare is based on a maximum profit model the well being of the customer will never come first. Or do not realize that end-of-life counseling is essential in order to provide any quality of life at the end of life.

Regardless of what Bill O'Reilly, or Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh say - how is it possible that people do not know that their fellow citizens are being denied coverage (even coverage they have already paid for) each and every day? Is it possible they really have not known anyone this has happened to? Or is it possible that their allegiance to party matters more to them than their fellow citizens who are sick and dying?

Party over country - and now party over the sick and dying. Truly remarkable. I understand that in the end it is only about 15 million people or so that actually believe this nonsense and show up here on this site or in public defending the insurance companies and shouting down any attempt at universal healthcare and that this is a small amount of our population. But damn, that is still alot of people who are either too obtuse to realize there is a healthcare issue or have just chosen party politics over any improvement in the welfare of our fellow citizens.

and it will get worse under goverment run health care