Idaho Death Panels

[RPM 26228]

Idaho allows COVID-slammed hospitals to ration care for 1st time ever

Boise, Idaho — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated "crisis standards of care" allowing health care rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
 
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly announced it in a statement Tuesday morning — warning residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalized.
 
The move came as the state's confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocketed in recent weeks. Idaho has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S.

The state health agency cited "a severe shortage of staffing and available beds in the northern area of the state caused by a massive increase in patients with COVID-19 who require hospitalization."

The designation includes 10 hospitals and healthcare systems in the Idaho panhandle and in north-central Idaho. The agency said its goal is to extend care to as many patients as possible and to save as many lives as possible.
The move allows hospitals to allot scarce resources like intensive care unit rooms to patients most likely to survive and make other dramatic changes to the way they treat patients. Other patients will still receive care, but they may be placed in hospital classrooms or conference rooms rather than traditional hospital rooms or go without some life-saving medical equipment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-covid-19-hospitals-ration-care/

[Upgrayedd 5806]

Thanks Obama.

[crash_davis 23084]

unvaccinated need to go to the bottom of the list because fuck them.

[tx 3 putt 76392]

4 hours ago, crash_davis said:

unvaccinated need to go to the bottom of the list because fuck them.

 

dead fucking last

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Cool band name

[Satchel 6908]

Give ‘em an inhaler and send ‘em home with thoughts and prayers.

[Captainant 27464]

Tfw we've always had death panels, they were just called insurance companies

[Js1 85110]

5 hours ago, crash_davis said:

unvaccinated need to go to the bottom of the list because fuck them.

[Smax 3800]

Give ‘em an inhaler and send ‘em home with thoughts and prayers.

And gods will

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

47 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Cool band name

Almost as cool as Wisconsin Death Trip

[crash_davis 23084]

15 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Almost as cool as Wisconsin Death Trip...

for Cutie.

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

Surely race and ability to pay won’t be used as factors… right? 

[Bama Chick 28596]

Race as a factor? In Idaho???

[Biff Tannen 45496]

This all comes down to Republican politicians and conservative media.  They are responsible for these deaths.  Full stop.

[Pescado_Rojo 19331]

19 hours ago, Captainant said:

Tfw we've always had death panels, they were just called insurance companies

I love pointing this out to right wing anti-universal healthcare types and watching their heads spin. "So you think all these for-profit insurance companies that deny coverage because of age or whatever AREN'T death panels?" 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

12 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

This all comes down to Republican politicians and conservative media.  They are responsible for these deaths.  Full stop.

[27-25 2040]

11 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Race as a factor? In Idaho???

Dan Patrick thinks it's those 0.69% unvaccinated African Americans that are the real problem here.

[tx 3 putt 76392]

On 9/9/2021 at 10:43 AM, 27-25 said:

Dan Patrick thinks it's those 0.69% unvaccinated African Americans that are the real problem here.

['stache 21774]

On 9/8/2021 at 11:26 PM, Bama Chick said:

Race as a factor? In Idaho???

Good lord, you could probably fit all the black people in Idaho in the smurf turf stadium. That would probably be Dan Patrick's "final solution."

[atomheartbevo 89448]

On 9/8/2021 at 1:18 PM, tx 3 putt said:

dead fucking last

On 9/8/2021 at 1:41 PM, MaybeACoordinator said:

Cool band name

On 9/8/2021 at 2:00 PM, Satchel said:

Give ‘em an inhaler and send ‘em home with thoughts and prayers.

On 9/8/2021 at 1:41 PM, MaybeACoordinator said:

Cool band name

Yep.

[High Plains Drifter 10977]

On 9/8/2021 at 2:00 PM, Satchel said:

Give ‘em an inhaler a tube of horse dewormer and send ‘em home with thoughts and prayers.

 

fixy