Repost: Cass Sunstein Advocates for Removal of People's Organs Without Explicit Consent

NetRight Nation ^ | September 4, 2009 | Adam Bitely

[combat_boots]

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[Diogenesis]

Sick. Against informed consent. Unethical.

Typical of Democrats, Marxists, and the
Obama-Nation courtesy of Hawaii, Kenya and the DNC.

[beethovenfan]

The people advocate the removal of Sunstein’s organ(s).

[Gator113]

Any fool that takes the organs of one of my loved ones, WITHOUT EXPLICIT CONSENT, may have very well forfeited their own.

[Oldpuppymax]

This is a fascist and would be dictator. Can a senator put a HOLD on the appointment? Has it already been done?

[444Flyer]

This mirrors well with the Dr. Zeke Emanuel death curve.

[Siouxz]

I am an organ donor. But if they pull something like this, they can kiss my kidneys goodbye.

[wolfcreek]

So the Progressives can have dinner?

[A Navy Vet]

"Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done."

This is a joke, right? Please tell me this has not even being considered. While I am an organ donor, NO ONE should ever be required to donate. Let's see what Snopes says about this. I can't believe this is real.

If so, the game is on...

[metmom]

Ping.

[DarthVader]

How about amputating his head?

[combat_boots]

And, add this...

The Reid Bill contains important elements that would greatly impact the ability of patients to receive unrationed medical care. These elements, combined with inadequate funding – a scheme of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” wherein half of the funding comes from cuts in Medicare spending, would result in rationing life-saving treatment for senior citizens.

Limiting Senior Citizens’ Right to Use Their Own Money to Save Their Own Lives
Limiting Exchange Users’ Right to Use Their Own Money to Save Their Own Lives
“Shared Decisionmaking” – Advance Care Planning By Another Name?
The Medicare Commission
Assisted Suicide Funding?
The Secretary and Quality Discretion
Notes

“Limiting Senior Citizens’ Right to Use Their Own Money to Save Their Own Lives”

“The Reid bill duplicates the House bill provision that would effectively allow federal bureaucrats at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to bar senior citizens from adding their own money, if they choose, to the government contribution in order to get private-fee-for-service Medicare Advantage (MA) plans less likely to ration life-saving treatment.”

http://www.nrlc.org/HealthcareRationing/ReidSubstitute.html

[Red Badger]

Hey, I'm not dead!.......

Yes, you are!.............

[combat_boots]

I don’t think Sunstein is a Secretary, but, rather, a ‘czar.’

[metmom]

I found this on snopes so far. Chilling to read.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/emergent/donor.asp

There’s this about a similar thing for Illinois.
http://americandaily.com/index.php/article/3233

And then there’s this group advocating for it....

The Presumed Consent Foundation, Inc.
http://www.presumedconsent.org/solutions.htm

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[444Flyer]

Cass Sustein

is...

[metmom]

IBTDB

[Ditter]

This reminds me of a comedy skit by (I think) those hilarious Brits, can’t remember their name but a knock at the door and a voice announces that they have come for the husbands liver. The wife says that her husband is still alive but that doesn’t seem to matter, they want his liver anyway. Comedy becomes reality.

[trisham]

bump!