Posted on 12/25/2010 7:58:43 PM PST by jimbo123
When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over death panels, Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.
Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.
Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009 when Republicans seized on the idea of end-of-life counseling to argue that the Democrats bill would allow the government to cut off care for the critically ill.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Im NOT a slave......I think.”
“Slavery is freedom...”
nomeklatura
Reading Reagan's biography. My rear end.
The liberals mocked the conservatives who were concerned about death panels. They ridiculed Sarah Palin for her strong voice in that debate. They ridiculed ordinary citizens who went to the town meetings with congressmen to express shock and outrage about death panels.
Well, it turns out that the liberals are going to set up death panels through regulation rather than explicitly in legislation.
For all the liberals outrage at conservatives fear of death panels, it turns out that the conservatives were right, that the liberals did indeed plan to have death panels.
Why are liberals allowed to get away with outright lying, dissembling, etc.??????
People need to read this entire article. Almost the entire second page is devoted to the efforts to keep this quiet so they get no resistance.
Cost containment eventually will require the enforcement of some end of life protocol. This is step one.
What liberals cannot achieve by legislation, they will try to achieve by Judicial Fiat. If they fail at judicial fiat, they will work through unelected bureaucracies that, in essence, write legislation.
If they fail in these ways, they work through the culture in a "drip" fashion, until their goals become "acceptable".
Republicans who think this jackass is someone who will "move to the center" or act in "good faith" after his ass-kicking in November are ignoramuses. Hussein and his allies need to CRUSHED in the arena of ideas--NO COMPROMISE.
Not if we are all taxed into poverty.
Bump.
Bump.
Or even a dog to a cat litter box full of “tootsie rolls.”
Cats never do this.
Maybe they'd like to indulge in a bit of it themselves and we'll be the judge of whether or not it works ~ ON THEM!
Bwahahahahahaha!
Stupid Democrat thugs. We know who they are.
Grim, gallows humor LOL
hmm....but when Palin said this the criminal liberal media called her nutz....
That's the key right there. Medicine has become such a technical and specialized field, the average person would not know if a Dr. was withholding options. Sure, if called on it the Doc could say such and such procedure or protocol was "experimental" or "had problems" with this interaction or that in XYZ's case. Anything aggressive is probably also going to be risky, and a Doc could cover their backside (and the hospital's and the insurance company's...) with a bunch of "best interests of the patient" BS.
Because they're good at it. Actually, the RATs paid dearly for it in Congress.
Those that survived did so only because their constituents are as corrupt and stupid as they are.
Off topic, Which Reagan bio are you reading. Thanks.
bookmark.
After what I have read through this, it looks like my nursing services to the elderly via Medicare will be denied me when my time comes.
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