Posted on 07/29/2016 9:06:34 AM PDT by oblomov
Even the best intentions cannot reverse the insidious effects of a wrong policy. When those who advocate for assisted suicide cite a benevolent desire to relieve suffering, the horrifying results of such a practice still lie just beneath the surface.
Recently, an elderly Vermont woman found herself repeatedly pressured to commit assisted suicide. Her grave ailment? Only a broken wrist. Nevertheless, staff at her rehab center “repeatedly asked the elderly woman if she was in pain or depressed; then they would remind her that she could commit doctor-prescribed suicide under the new law.”
Advocates of assisted suicide have blown off claims that these laws could lead to this sort of pressure to die. But in the face of high end-of-life costs, Guy Page of the Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare said, “It doesn’t take a health care economist to see the shortest distance in finding ways to reduce health care costs is physician-assisted suicide.” This means that in some circumstances, the main factor in “choosing” to die could very well be more related to money than patient condition.
‘Life Is Expensive but Death Is Free’
Oregon displayed a grim example of such pressures when the state Medicaid program began informing patients and doctors that many prescription medications and painkillers would not be covered—but assisted suicide would.
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Eugenics. And whoever controls the money can control a person or people.
I’m so sorry about your mom. The hardest part are all those unanswered questions. My dad used hospice. They gave him morphine to help his lungs relax so he could breath easier. He got sick and went to a hospice center. Within 2 days they medicated him so heavily, he was unconscious. He was not like that when he went in. Not even close. 18 people passed the week we were in there. One father was crying saying his daughter was given 2 years, but passed within 3 days in hospice care. He only went there with her to get her pain managed. I know what hospice is for. I’m fully aware. But, I have little doubt that they speed things up after my week there.
I have heard many many stories from families talking about how overmedicated their loved one was prior to death. People who are not in pain are medicated into unconsciousness. Homecare is best.
The West just goes more and more towards evil versus love.
Hey - it’s Vermont - anything’s possible in the state where the people are stupid enough to elect Bernie Sanders to represent them in the US Senate.......
Why do you thing Medicare was gutted? So was Tricare Life Ret. Military over 65. But co-pays went up. Many test are now 2 yrs apart that should be done yearly, and many blood test no longer covered. Hospital stays are passe after even major surgery. And a pain med script is not strong enough for the post surgery pain. Surgery to fix your vision because they used the wrong IOL lens, after cataract surgery comes out of your pocket. They term it cosmetic, when it is actually medical need. Glasses won’t fix the issue.
Now this new Narcotics law has hit those in true chronic pain hard. They want to send you to Pain Management, which is BS treatment with expensive mind altering drugs that are very addictive. Much more so than the narcotics which doctors were stingy about anyway. And they are way more expensive.
Filthy hospitals that you pick up staff infections from after surgery are becoming more the norm. Both Son-in-law and cousin had them following back surgery. Both nearly died.
What do you think kills inoperable cancer patients first...not the cancer, but the pain meds are OD’d. Happened to my dad, stopped his heart, yet cancer was listed as cause of death.
90 yr old BIL just broke his hip, letting his aging horse out to pasture, surgery, nursing home rehab. Difference is his Daughter is very protective, and wealthy so can afford the best for her dad beyond Medicare. When he gets out of the Rehab home she has home help scheduled, and is getting him one of those Sat devices in case he falls again, this is his second serious fall in the last 2 years, both times he lay with out help for at least 2 hrs. Cell was in the house, or in the pocket that was on the side he was pinned on by the small tractor he mows with, when it over turned. She is flying in from Tarzana, CA when he gets out to see to his short term care and line up the long term. He won’t take pain meds beyond the second day after surgery.
The new narcotic laws are designed to force patients with chronic pain into Pain Management, which use mind altering drugs, more addictive pain meds that cost more, have horrid side effects to boot.
While denying the use of Valium for muscle pain from Fibromyalgia.
Valium was the only muscle relaxer that controlled my neck spasms after a cervical fusion 15 years ago. It was miraculous. Very sad they don’t prescribe it to responsible patients with a legitimate need.
Stupid question Gail, where did you learn about Valium and Fibro?
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