Democrats, Health Care "Reform," And Your "Duty To Die"

TownHall ^ | February 15, 2009 | Austin Hill

[dbz77]

Welcome to the Era of Obama. You now have a duty to die.

I'm not saying that someday you will die (that's a given).

And I'm not saying that you should be given the "right to die" - - the freedom to take your own life, or to direct your Doctor to put you out of your misery - - that's something entirely different.

I'm saying that someday, if current trends continue, your United States Government will determine that you have a “duty,” an obligation, to die.

It’s bad enough that hundreds of congressional members voted to spend nearly one trillion of our dollars, without even reading the so-called “economic stimulus bill” and without knowing fully what our money is being spent on. It’s even more horrific to know that more of our tax dollars are being allocated to the Office Of Health Information and Technology, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, and that the bill also provides for the beginnings of a nationwide “health records database” that will track the healthcare of every person in the country.

As recently as last Monday, President Obama was praising the nationalization of health records, and the “conversion” of health records to electronic formats, noting that managing electronic data is less costly than managing hardcopy documents. But unfortunately, the creation of a nationalized health records database also creates another means of “cost cutting” - - namely, the denial of medical treatments to severely ill and elderly patients.

Language in the health care sections of the “stimulus bill” stipulates that the Department of H.H.S. will provide “appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care,” and also allows for “penalties” to be assessed to physicians who “spend too much” on individual patients. Essentially, we now have the beginnings of a governmental agency that eventually will, by force of law, determine which persons will be eligible for health care, and what treatment they will receive.

As noted in a recent Bloomberg news article, the way in which the Office Of Health Information and Technology is being expanded emulates the plans put forth in “Critical: What We Can Do About The Health Care Crisis,” a book authored by former Senator (and would-be HHS Secretary) Tom Daschle. In the book, Daschle praises the Western European nations for, among other things, the ways in which they have “nationalized” health care, and have ‘contained” health care costs.

Yet, not surprisingly, Western Europe’s utopian ambitions to “insure everybody” and make healthcare “free” have by no means been realized. In fact, the nationalizing of healthcare in Europe has led to worsening government deficits, and increased healthcare costs, and efforts to contain those costs have resulted in the denial of treatment to those persons not expected to live much longer - - that is, the elderly and the seriously ill.

This “need” to deny people health care has frequently, in Europe, been cast in terms of one’s “duty to die.” The idea is that, once you have lived “long enough;” after you have consumed your “fair share” of the earth’s resources; and when your combined age and health conditions make it “obvious” that further efforts to prolong your life just simply “aren’t worth it;” you will then have a responsibility to accept these consequences, and to accept that you’ll just have to get along without life-sustaining healthcare.

In other words, once a government employee has determined that spending healthcare resources on you will not produce much of a “return on the investment,” you will then have a “duty to die.”

Forget the notion that the Doctor-patient relationship is “sacred,” or that you will make “private” decisions about your health care, in consultation with your Doctor. If Democrats continue the trend of "Europeanizing" our American health care, the office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology will eventually be overseeing your healthcare, making sure that if your Doctor spends “too much” on you, they will face federal “penalties, ” the likes of which have yet to be fully defined.

For over three decades, the Democratic Party has insisted that it is wrong for government to “interfere” with a woman’s medical decisions with respect to the child in the womb. Now, President Obama and congressional Democrats are insisting that government must be involved in everybody’s medical decisions. Worse yet, their proposals threaten human life on yet another front: not only are unborn children threatened by their policies, but so, also, are the ill and the elderly.

If Americans continue voting for “more government” as a means to “cure” all our societal ills, we will continue to move closer to the point where anonymous government bureaucrats determine when you have lived “long enough,” when you have consumed your “fair share” of resources, and when it is “obvious” that you won’t live much longer.

President Obama and the Democratic Congress are determined to take us to this point.

[dbz77]

The only people who have a duty to die are rapists, pedophiles, and militant Islamist sand Nazi terrorists.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This applies to all old people except Ted Kennedy. The ‘RATS need his vote in the Senate.

[muawiyah]

Somebody might well die but it won’t be me.

[Lesforlife]

Just ask Dick Lamm

[lowbridge]

bump

[COUNTrecount]

Don't forgrt Arlen Spector.

Under the new plan, and if it applied to him, he'd be dead.No treatment, no tests.

Arlen Specter's Hodgkin's disease returns

Sen. Arlen Specter's Hodgkin's disease, which he battled in 2005, has recurred, but doctors said that its return was detected early and that Specter has an "excellent chance" of once again achieving remission, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the senator's office.

Sen. Arlen Specter says he was surprised by test results because he has been "feeling so good."

Specter, 78, will continue to perform his Senate duties and conduct his campaign for re-election to a sixth term but will undergo 12 weeks of chemotherapy, the written statement said. Hodgkin's disease is a cancer of the lymphatic system.

The recurrence was found during a routine scan, which flagged small lymph nodes in Specter's chest and abdomen, the statement said. A follow-up biopsy of one of the chest lymph nodes was positive for recurrence, but a bone marrow biopsy was negative.

"I was surprised by the PET scan findings because I have been feeling so good," Specter said in the statement. "I consider this just another bump in the road to a successful recovery from Hodgkin's, from which I've been symptom-free for three years."

statement said. "Based on the location of the recurrence and the absence of symptoms, his lymphoma is considered stage IIIA. This is significantly less advanced than his Hodgkin's disease when it was originally diagnosed in 2005, when it was stage IVB."

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[Wild Irish Rogue]

Terry Schiavo would probably have been denied care in the beginning by Obama’s Board.
Would Obama’s Board have denied health care to a 44 yr old Alaskan woman carrying a Down’s Syndrome child ?
Or worse ?

[SunkenCiv]

Will Old Folks Get in the Way of our Brave New World?
American Thinker | February 13, 2009 | Pamela Meister
Posted on 02/14/2009 10:22:32 PM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185982/posts

[Outland]

"Under the new plan, and if it applied to him, he'd be dead.No treatment, no tests. Arlen Specter's Hodgkin's disease returns"

Not true... he's part of the ruling elite.  I'm sure there's a provision in the law that differentiates the elite from the serfs.

[MountainFlower]

I am speechless, again!

PING!

[Outland]

AARP seems to be in a state of brainwashed denial.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/policy/articles/medical_research_provision.html

[MountainFlower]

When things are looking so dismal already and we are only 46 days into this year, I reflect on this, which God brought to my attention a few days ago:
"Love the Lord, all his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. (Ps 31:23-24)
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him. (Ps 32:7,8,10)
Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth - he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. (Ps 33:8-16)
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you." (Ps 33:18-22)
and again He says, "Be still and know that I am God."

[militant2]

We (America) got on this “slippery slope” when Roe vs. Wade made it OK to murder babies. The value of human life has been reduced to cost and convenience. None of this should really be a total shock to thinking people who have some sense of history!! There always seems to be tyrants around who’ve decided that some lives are worth less than others.

Don’t get me wrong.....I agree with your assessment that there are some who do not deserve life. These are people who are personified evil, lacking souls, and are more than willing to take the lives of us and ours. They won’t stop until they’re wiped off the face of the earth!

There will need to be a major “undertaking” in America, I fear, to force us back onto the right track. It will be neither easy nor pretty!

Militant