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Mandatory End of Life Counseling for Seniors
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| July 17, 2009
| Zach
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.
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To: retrokitten; All
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posted on
07/18/2009 6:51:36 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(I am Jim Thompson!)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I am totally tired of MANDANTORY anything! If it ain't manditory, it's forbidden.
To: Political Junkie Too
“Great! What are my interment options, or is the GM car at the bottom of the Canyon it?”
If you properly turn over your assets to the government upon death, you have two choices via Obamacare:
A) A shovel ready team will promptly upon landing dig around your vehicle and build an Indian like burial mound with you in the vehicle. This shovel ready team will be ready to be deployed. Your family will receive an official Robert Reich signed certificate demonstrating that the whole team is non-white and appropriately stimulus diversity approved.
B) An environmental friendly group will clear a circumference from around you and the vehicle and build a pyre for ritual burning complete with Hindu priests and supporting chorus. You and your car will be lit aflame with natural environmentally safe canola oil.
Government Motors care not included. You or your family must provide a vehicle for your assisted suicide. Should you not be able to afford one, a vehicle with less than 25 mpg seized by the government will be offered at minimal cost. No key or ignition is permitted. Your family must push you and the gaz guzzling offending vehicle over the cliff manually.
To: freedomwarrior998
This’ll end up being some paperwork the office staff at the doctor’s will give you like the HIPPA form (of which I have an entire tree’s worth of these). I doubt doctors will spend time explaining all the legalities while they are tapping your knees to observe your reflexes.
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posted on
07/18/2009 7:00:25 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
To: penelopesire
Now that will get rid of all of us nasty conservatives obstructing the liberals’ vision of Utopia!
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posted on
07/18/2009 7:02:25 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
To: madison10
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posted on
07/18/2009 7:05:32 AM PDT
by
usmcobra
(Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
To: Balding_Eagle
Are you eligible to receive Social Security benefits? Then you might be an old person! - Jim Foxworthy.
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posted on
07/18/2009 7:05:50 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
To: summernite
To: Mr. Silverback
Since when is it any of the governments bloody business what my advance directives are like, or whether I have one at all?
It isn't. I haven't seen much about this part of the bill anywhere except FR. It needs to be exposed.
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posted on
07/18/2009 7:08:52 AM PDT
by
Girlene
To: Jeff Head
Also, this doesn't mandate anything on the part of the patient. It merely adds "advance care planning", including planning for "end of life decisions", to the things covered by Medicare. It doesn't require counseling every five years, but rather requires the government to pay for it as long as the patient doesn't receive it more than once every five years, except in special circumstances.
I wish people would actually read the bill rather than go ape$h!t every time they see "end of life care." Believe me, there's PLENTY not to like about this bill without inventing sensational stuff like this.
To: ForeignDude; Mr. Silverback
Actually, I didn't read that anyone has to do anything via these advance directives. It simply requires that Medicare cover consultation regarding advance directives. It doesn't require you to get consultations, it just requires the government to pay for them if you do.
Maybe I'm missing some language here (it is rather early for me on a Saturday), but I don't think so.
To: LonePalm
Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!
I agree that we will lead the charge to save this Republic. I have a serious question. What kind of back up plan should we establish if one day we wake up and find this channel of communication has been eliminated? I know how I panic sometimes when we are down for server updates. Any suggestions?
To: kempster
Answers to questions like that are best kept out of the public eye for then we will be in a war to the death.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
07/18/2009 8:11:42 AM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: madison10
What are the chances of the “counseling” being done by Planned Parenthood? All will be encouraged to abort themselves at the end.
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posted on
07/18/2009 8:13:52 AM PDT
by
unique
To: madison10
To: farlander
"You got a link for that manual ?" Sorry, no links. :<(
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posted on
07/18/2009 9:16:12 AM PDT
by
An Old Man
(Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
To: Gondring
"There's a very ghoulish segment of the broader Pro-Life community that believes that misleading people and horrifying deaths help their cause." Name one.
.
.
With quote or link.
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posted on
07/18/2009 3:18:15 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln)
To: CondorFlight
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posted on
07/18/2009 4:31:14 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
To: madison10
There will be armed revolution in this country long before the ground is fertile for this kind of Soylent Green treatment. By saying you would attend such “sessions” with your loved ones, it soundslike you’ve already passed upon them as a fait accompli. If you think it profits humanity to cull the population, I give you full permission to vaporize me should I ever knuckle down to an evil maggot like Obama.
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posted on
07/19/2009 1:34:01 PM PDT
by
Dionysius
(Jingoism is no vice in these troubled times.)
To: Post5203
Congress has exempt itself this health care bill.
they have a much better health care plan.
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posted on
07/20/2009 4:04:11 AM PDT
by
GOPbabe
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