goodness gracious, better put a band-aid on that sore nerve!!!!
• The mandatory “end-of-life” counseling controversy is not a direct attack on the president but effectively paints his and the Democrats’ health care proposal as a secret plan to peddle suicide to senior citizens.
Some commentators, led by Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York, hit the airwaves recently to claim that under the Obama plan, people enrolled in Medicare would be required to submit to counseling every five years that would tell them how to end their lives sooner.
In fact, the bill requires Medicare to cover the costs of voluntary advice sessions for seniors who want to find out about living wills, powers of attorney, health care proxies and similar issues. We believe these planning steps are good things, not only for seniors, but for their families.
The AARP thinks so too. It lobbied for the provision. And the last time we checked, the AARP isn’t into killing off its membership.
Funny, if it was BUSH who was obfuscating & refusing to allow for release of documents, the media would be all over him and supporting the investigations not attacking those who would simply ask the question, why won’t he release anything?!
So they shriek louder and louder the more evidence and more determined we clearly get to get to the bottom of this.
I sure wish some people would take the time to read what is in the “health’care’ bill” before they run off at the mouth about it.
In a number of places, the reference to mandatory “counseling” every 5 years for persons over age 65 regarding methods of dying are in this bill.
This author needs to learn to read before they try to write part of the debate on the topic.
I , for one, will not be so easily swayed about the competance of the Dems and NObama. They have already shown themselves to be running with the bit in their teeth- and not taking the best paths for the American people.