Posted on 07/17/2009 4:11:33 PM PDT by madison10
Edited on 07/17/2009 4:30:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
One of the most outrageous mandates in the Democratic health care bill is found on page 416. [Mod note: try pp 425-426] On this page, you will see mandatory “end of life” counseling for seniors every five years. With this counseling, they will be spoken to about the different end of life choices that can be undertaken.
This is crazy. How could some Democrat not get an amendment approved during committee to remove this page of the new health care legislation?
This is only one outrage contained in this bill. If Obama has his way, forcing this bill to be voted on next week without members and citizens to actually see what is in it, we will definitely be surprised the next time we try to go see a doctor.
Call Democrat Mike Ross and ask him to stop this bill in committee. Also tell him you’ll donate to his campaign and do so, after he stops this bill. The energy committee must pass the bill to get it to the floor. There are many conservative Dems on that committee. Only 7 are needed to kill it. They had 10 yesterday. They need your support. Two other committees already passed it today. We need to call today. Also, can someone else post the names of other blue dog Dems on that committee? Thanks.
You can see the entire 1018 page health care bill here.
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I am concerned about Mr. Byrd, he has been opposing several of these massive bills and the top dem dogs don’t like it.
Well I am almost 70 but not near end of life. If this stpid bill passes I don’t need Obama’s counseling. I have Jesus and will put myself in His hands
Is "Get the f^&k out of my room or I'm taking you with me" one of the choices?
LOL
“....On this page, you will see mandatory “end of life” counseling for seniors every five years....”
Bullet, gas or lethal injection; you get to choose!
Y’all the odious term in the legislation is ‘palliative care’.
Euthanasia falls under ‘palliative care’.
AARP is pushing the “health care reform”, or so the aarp mag says.. Read the aarp mag at my mom place last weekend...
Maybe the proponents could demonstrate this on Kennedy, Byrd, and Ginsberg.
Maybe the proponents could demonstrate this on Kennedy, Byrd, and Ginsberg.
“Seniors need to declare mandatory end-of-life for 0bama
care end-of-life counselors”.
It’s not what you say but the way that you say it!
MAE WEST
Our son had disabilities. Once we went to the emergency room and the doctor asked me whether we wanted to save him or not. I said that’s why we’re at the hospital. That was at least 10 years ago.
Heaven help us if you’re disabled, old and have no meaningful input into society.
Basically, each senior has to have an end-of=life discussion with a doctor or nurse practitioner every five years or when certain trigger events (terminal illness, admittance to a skilled nursing ward, etc.) occur. It mandates what issues are to be discussed and what form an advance directive has to take.
(I’m not sure yet if it’s every senior or just the ones on the governmant plan, which would be almost all of them anyway.)
In the wake of Cronkite's death, I immediately thought of Ted Kennedy...
Yikes.
In sonme states, the “state resources” discussed in this section would include assisted suicide.
See post 136.
It sounds more benign than it's being portrayed. But it still is none of the government's business to impose such counseling. Even if the federal government is the insurer-of-record -- certainly no insurers have that power now.
Not to mention that, eventually, some liberal judge will re-interpret the legislation as mandating a house call by Dr. Kevorkian (or some other "assisted suicide provider").
This legislation really is a steaming pile of horsexxxx. And I'm sure we haven't heard the worst of it...yet.
Since when is it any of the government’s bloody business what my advance directives are like, or whether I have one at all? Do they own us now? Should I call them “massuh?”
Chill pill my ass.
This is how they see it working:
Ok, when you think you have suffered enough, if you are not of value to the country, take these pills, go lie down in your bed and die in your sleep like you are supposed to.
‘bout right?
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