[Liberty Reigns]

I haven't read the full report (link is to a summary pdf) but came across this while trying to figure out why Terri Shaivo was killed. Have any hospice leaders expressed reservations about what was done to her?

Liberty Reigns

[JennysCool]

The report also offers a new vision of hospice, one that holds firm to many of the traditions and values of the past but finds new and more flexible ways to deliver care.

Translation: YOU CAN MAKE BIG MONEY IN THE NEW AND EXCITING WORLD OF HOSPICE CARE!!!

[Daisy4]

In the authors’ new vision, America’s hospices will play an expanded role in addressing more of the supportive and symptom relief needs of patients confronting life-limiting illnesses and their families for longer periods and in a wider variety of settings and contexts...

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Hospice if funded by HMO Insurance and Medicaid, and before one can be admitted into the pogram, the person, by law has to have a TERMINAL DIAGNOSE of 6 months or less to live. This is what they are changing, and they will help you die faster. Analysis: If you are ill, REFUSE HOSPICE CARE!!

[Sally]

Rush is linking to a bunch of articles at Canada Free Press. Here's one:

Is hospice industry part of the right-to-die crusade?

http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/cover032905.htm

[SNIP] Ron Panzer, President of the pro-life Hospice Patients Alliance (HPA), contends that hospice workers all over the country are routinely killing patients.

"Those who report to HPA tell us they’ve overheard nurses saying things like, `I’m just like Jack Kevorkian, only I do it with morphine.’ And they get away with it week by week because it’s hospice." (LifeNews.com).

[Cboldt]

To achieve this ambitious goal, policies must change and powerful cultural taboos surrounding death and dying must be overcome.

Overcoming powerful cultural taboos regarding death and dying? Sure sends a red flag for me, complete with flashing lights and blaring siren.

[Telit Likitis]

"The report recommends freeing America's hospice providers from existing regulatory, financial and cultural constraints so that their expertise can be applied more broadly in new settings and contexts."

They want God to Abdicate!

[nicmarlo]

ping

[tutstar]

I found the entire report here

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:FrafqPpi8PYJ:www.thehastingscenter.org/pdf/access_hospice_care.pdf+access+to+hospice+care+expanding+boundaries+overcoming+barriers&hl=en

Middle column page 6 mentions hospice becoming the organizing center for persons will illness.

It sounds to me like they want to get hold of you as soon as you're diagnosed with a disease and coordinate your 'treatment'. They even mention those with chronic illness could benefit.

Well ....someday I might be crippled from rheumatoid arthritis so why not put me on the fast track to death? /sarcasm

[cyn]

// Have any hospice leaders expressed reservations about what was done to her? //

YES -- when Terri was being starved in Oct '03 I called the hospice center that had helped with the HOME care of a family member. I was told that they were not at all in agreement with what was being done to Terri; the the hospice of Suncoast was sending out mailers to other hospices in apparent PR move.

OTOH, a friend's family member's experience at the hospice here in Jax was not good -- ended up leaving and going home, which gave him and the family the control they needed.

Thanks for the link, tut.

[Saundra Duffy]

finds new and more flexible ways to deliver care

Like dehydrating and starving people to death. Safe and legal.

[HighlyOpinionated]

I've sent two emails to my Georgia State Senator and Representative regarding this "cult of death."

I just do not believe this is happening in America. OR that other Americans don't see how wrong it is to kill the elderly, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

America will come toppling down around her knees if she doesn't wake up and contain the evil within.

This just can't be happening, but it is.

Someone pinch me, I want to wake up and live.