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.
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Yes, the nomeklatura who have never held a real job in their lives, but know everything and will rearrange society according to their god, Lucifer.
In other words, don't let people know what you're really doing.
Because, if they found out, they'd be pissed off.
Liberalism in action...
Here is what will happen first:
"...I'm sorry sir...we cannot schedule that appointment for you in November 2010 to have that melanoma removed because you have not undergone your mandatory annual counseling after age 65...oh, of course you are right. I know you are only 62, but they did move the age down again this year...we have an opening in three months with the counselors office...would you like that?"
This is fully expected, but It will not be the people you will be FORCED to talk to in order to receive your care, nor the intentional delays in care that will be the most insidiously evil facets of this.
But it will be the conversations like this that will become commonplace that REALLY illustrate what it is all about:
"...Hi Jan, how are you? I heard your father is resisting counseling. It must be difficult, I know. There just seems to be so much of that lately. I know I am only 40 years old, but I don't understand why people like your father are so opposed to this.
I went with my mother to her counseling session, and while she was angry because she was supposed to have another five years before she had to go but they moved the age down again, she went anyway. I thought she was really rude to the counseling agent, who was just a young woman only doing her job. Hm.
Someone told me they are only hiring young women as counselors now, because the men who were doing it just got angry too easily and shouted at people to just "sign the damned papers". Hm. I tried to tell my mom why they have to do this, but she said they do it just to get rid of old people to save money.
The counseling agent gave my mom a copy of the book "Death is Joy". I read it, and it makes a lot of sense to me. Of course, when I was going to school, we didn't have to read it, but now they have required classes they take every year beginning in first grade.
Suzie is in third grade and is taking the course this year that deals with the chapter on keeping birth rates down, and Tommy is in his senior year where they cover the financial aspects of care for the elderly. He was so excited, he said that since they have implemented this national care program, the number of elderly people has dropped dramatically, so they can spend more money on programs such as monthly equality checks for the economically disadvantaged and reparations for the descendants of slaves. I think it is wonderful.
He asked me why so many elderly people are so selfish and refuse to accept counseling...I didn't really have an answer for him. Hm. Now, don't be defensive, I am not criticizing your parents.
I am just saying, it is a problem.
They had an hour-long program on PBS about this the other night, and they were saying how the people who are being selfish about this and refusing to take advantage of early exit programs that pay cash to their children are being so self-centered because they grew up in a time where everyone was self-centered and were interested only in money. You know, they showed films from the days of the capitalists where there were people who had what they called 'gas-guzzlers", and they used to make so much more money than they needed to live comfortably, so many people were going without health care because they were taking all the money..."
They know exactly what it means. They are just hoping you don't. More importantly here, see how the Executive Branch sidesteps the Legislative Branch in paying out money that Congress has not appropriated.
I hope one of our new Republican Congressmen finds the posters Grayson used in his tirade and crosses out “Republican” and replaces it with “Obama”.
Okay, they would never do that, so just change it to “Democrat”.
“Freedom is Slavery means that you are supposed to treat your supposedly natural rights as privileges that you need to constantly earn.”
I got confoost at your response of Slavery is freedom...,
so I did a search, and found the above.
Still confoost. ;)
I think you are right about how it will start. But when dotZERO.gov takes over food and causes shortages they will use the Precident of ZEROdot.gov control over life in health situations to be used in the orchestrated starvation decisions. The Soviet Union and 0’bama worshipped Mao were very good at this strategy. You can already see their food control infrastructure being put in place.
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Can we all just force Obama to leave the building, now? He belongs in the effing Kremlin.
With a bonus depending on how well the patient takes the docs advice.
yitbos
Spoken by the granddaughter after she delivered granny to the appropriate facility for end of life care (voluntary euthanasia) I imagine...brilliant piece of writing btw.
The government should not be spending money to end peoples’ lives and it should not be spending money to keep people alive. The government should get out of health care, period. Medicare and Medicaid are unconstitutional.
The government should not be spending money to end peoples’ lives and it should not be spending money to keep people alive. The government should get out of health care, period. Medicare and Medicaid are unconstitutional.
Almost like a bounty hunter......
Decreasing sliding scale depending on time after last visit.
yitbos
My father has Alzheimers and is in-and-out of dementia.
He has a medical problem, one that is not immediately life threatening that requires a very involved surgery. Because of the complexity and length of the surgery and the amount of anesthesia involved, it means he may never recover his sensibilities or any lucidity, and may be totally demented afterwards.
In his present state he is aware of the problem. It scares the Hell our of him. He wishes he were dead.
His doctors ( yes, plural) and I agree that he can live for years with what is ailing him but he may have only a few months or at most 14 months with the Alzheimers. It is not worth losing his sanity to have him undergo an involved surgery that will not do anything to truly extend his quality of life or length thereof.
The quicker you die, the biger the bonus.....
This is how Bismarck governed Germany after the Liberals took control of the Reichstag. “Father knows bes,”of course.
Kill ‘em when they’re up
Kill ‘em when they’re down
Kill ‘em when they’re young
Kill ‘em when they’re old
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