People in New York will Die Without Ventilators. Trump Admin Rushing 4,000. Why did NY Dems Choose NOT to buy Ventilators in 2015? Why Death Panels?

And why are Dems in Congress holding up relief so they can get funding for abortions?

BETSY MCCAUGHEY

OPINION

We didn’t have to have ventilator shortage — leaders chose not to prep for pandemic

By Betsy McCaughey

March 19, 2020 | 7:44pm

The novel coronavirus is causing working-age people to worry about missing paychecks, caring for kids home from school, stockpiling groceries and canceling plans. But people in their 50s, 60s or older have bigger worries. Many are lying awake wondering if this is how they are going to die.

At its most severe, the coronavirus attacks the lungs, making it impossible to breathe without a ventilator. Landing in the hospital on a ventilator is bad. But worse is being told you can’t have one.

Hospitals in New York are running short. To his credit, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doing his best, but he admits “you can’t find available ventilators no matter how much you’re willing to pay right now, because there is literally a global run on ventilators.”

It’s a little late. Several years ago, after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road.

They could have chosen to buy more ventilators to back up the supplies hospitals maintain. ­Instead, the health commissioner, Howard Zucker, assembled a task force for rationing the ventilators they already had.

In 2015, that task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. ­Patients assigned a red code will have highest access, and other ­patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst), ­depending on a “triage officer’s” decision.

In truth, a death officer. Let’s not sugar-coat it. It won’t be up to your own doctor.

McCaughey gones on to point out why nationalized medicine is a bad idea. Important election issue as Dems are all in for more of the same socialized medicine. Read the rest here.

Pelosi wants Americans to die! Her UGLY DEMOCRAT Coronavirus bill was STUFFED WITH CRONY PORK - millions for the Kennedy Arts Center? Green new deal mandates? Planned Parenthood funding? Post office bailout? Same-day voter registration? $300 million for the NEA? You're sick!

— Citizen Kelly (@Williamjkelly) March 24, 2020