[tennmountainman]

Sarah Palin was right about Death Panels. The RATS will be be the ones pushing Granny over the cliff.

[23 Everest]

DEMOCRAT’S WAR TO EUTHANIZE SENIORS! Media silent.

[Churchillspirit]

Sincerely hope Gov. Romney hammers this home during the debates.

[Andrei Bulba]

Don’t know how much of this is Obamacare, my in laws believed it was. Elderly relative taken to hospital. Had to go back soon in a relapse. The doctors were very upset because they pay a fine under medicare if they readmit the patient in less than 30 days. So then the doctor would not prescribe the oxygen needed unless the family agreed to put the patient in hospice consisting of morphine and reduced treatment. So they had to go home with the relative suffering and try to get visiting nurses to argue for oxygen. They also felt they couldn’t return to the hospital anymore. Finally they had go go with hospice, the patient did get oxygen then and died a few days later.

[Salamander]

3 years ago, come this January, hubby had a 3x bypass.

The surgeon flat out told me that was his one shot and if he needed further surgery, too bad.

No matter that we have the best Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage available, Medicare gets “first say” in what happens to him...or doesn’t.

Anybody wonder why I’ve been slowly falling apart since the maggot took over?

He and his Doctrine of Death MUST go.

[Vince Ferrer]

MSM: Social Security is fixed!

[ronnie raygun]

They kill babies so this is a piece of cake for them.

[ArmyTeach]

The frightening and reprehensible thing is that those who write and pass these laws have probably exempted themselves from it.

[Nowhere Man]

Here's what I wrote a while back:

I've posted this many times before but what if somebody is denied healthcare under Bammycare? People naturally have spouses, children, siblings, friends, parents, grandparents, etc. depending on the age of the one denied. I would hate to be a member of a death panel making such a decision to deny. I'd stay out of dark allies, look under my car before starting it, keep my eyes out for shadows, and jump at every noise I hear at night. Is that noise I hear at 2:30 AM the neighbor's cat or is it Grandpa Jones' grandson, which I denied care to his granddad, with a posse of his friends armed with baseball bats and a shotgun? How about blocking the road in front of me, an old lady in a 1967 Caddy. Did she break down or is she the wife of the man who I denied a hip replacement to, waiting for me where as I step out of my car to help, the last thing I hear is a .45 going off just before St. Peter appears. It's 10 PM, my kid is late in coming home and the phone rings. How about this, what if I denied care to a Tony Soprano?

I know under the insurance companies, there are cases of denial but in a lot of cases, you can get the doctor and hospital to get them to reverse their decision or just go ahead and let the family pay for it and/or go on a charity case. Not so with the government, if you are denied, there is very little redress at all. Ayn Rand put in in a long monologue where it boils down to this, "the more laws you create, the more criminals you make" and when you eliminate the process and route where one can make a challenge to make things right legally, that leaves only one other way, revenge and/or at least forced coercion via illegal means. This is a pandora's box to be sure, people will do anything for their loved ones and for survival.

I remember Quark's quote from DS9 (Star Trek) about us humans, "Let me tell you something about humans, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty Klingon."

I don't feel comfortable in visioning this scenario, but if we keep going on the present track, it will happen.

[ArmyTeach]

The frightening and reprehensible thing is that those who write and pass these laws have probably exempted themselves from it.

[timestax]

Sarah Palin was Correct

[Eye of Unk]

This may not be relevant but my dad was admitted to a hospital in Little Rock with heart problems, they said it was his final hours, we all paid our last respects last week and then he improved his condition enough so the hospital sent him home.

He passed away last night.

I wasn’t there but from what I hear from my sister who is an RN the hospital pulled some funny stuff about discharging him, no real facts on my part as I am thousands of miles away.

[JimRed]

It is your duty to die, comrade, that the regime might live!