Posted on 08/13/2009 11:53:07 AM PDT by nomoremods
DROP THE ENTIRE BILL!
<More dangerous than working as a teacher in an inner city school run by gangs!
LOL! I told my 79 yr old mother about the end of life counseling provision. She was shocked for about a minute, then she said she and her friends would “beat the sh$t” out of anyone who mentioned this crap to them.
My mother and her friends are retired inner city school teachers. : )
This whole topic of health care takeover is all too real to me at the moment. I lost my father today; he would have turned 77 next Wednesday. He had been in failing health in an assisted living facility for some time. He died peacefully and without pain. For those who have not lost loved ones, it is a massive ordeal that requires hundreds of both large and small decisions. I thought today that it was hard enough making decisions and ministering to him as a family and medical community. It would have been horrible to have had the government’s heavy hand in the mix. WE knew what was best for Dad. He died on God’s timetable, surrounded by loving family until the final breath.
Very sorry to hear about your father....
My thoughts are with you.........
“He died on God’s timetable,”
So sorry. It’s interesting that the perspective of “God’s timetable” for end-of-life issues really hasn’t been brought up by either side of the healthcare issue. If it has, I haven’t heard it.
Just giving cover to Grassley and Graham to support it. Snowe and Collins are on Finance and will probably support it as-is.
We're going to have to undo everything they've done anyway.
Ok Chuckles, drop the 999 preceding pages and we’re all set...
We should rebuild the grassroots conservative movement. From the Reagan Revolution of 1980 through the Contract with America in 1994, it was this movement from outside Washington that carried us to the first center-right majority governing coalition in more than 60 years. The problem has not been with conservatism or with our voters.
The problem has been with Republican leaders who forgot who elected them and what values their supporters expected to see implemented in Washington.
— Newt Gingrich, 11-13-2006
They need to drop the whole thing—not just the end of life provision.
And the "mental health" professionals. Don't forget the free ticket they're going to get.
Yes, When I went into the doctors with my Mom, they handed her papers to fill out. They said it wasn’t a requirement but will give the doctor an Idea of what she wanted IN CASE she had a problem later in life. They did that with my Dad as well.
Standard procedure when you go to the hospital as well.
Exactly! It wasn’t there it really wasn’t but just to make sure we took it out! LOL
Yes, they’ll just be sure to be sneakier about it in the final bill.
When TOTUS tries to convince the American people that the government isn't trying to kill their Grandmas, he's got a big problem.
A small victory the hard one is further ahead.
It’s still SOCIALISM!
But, we were told by Obama and the Democrats that there was no time to read the bill, and it must be signed immediately or the world will end.
Actually, the "unintended consequences" are exactly what they intend.
Does this mean the dying will still dye unaided by any medicines
that could make their last days more humane,
but they just won’t get any sympathy or instructions?
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