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 ...
Watch the GOP performance in a couple of weeks...They'll read the former Constitution as a feeble symbolic gesture to the millions of citizens who worked their collective butts off to get them elected, then it will be back to business as usual...
Amazing how everyone seems to have forgotten how much of our former freedom & liberty were irretrievably lost while the GOP controlled congress and the WH...
Why do taxpayers have to fund conversations that probably already take place without government regulation?
bumping for later
I am a Marine...defender of freedom against tyranny
and when I enter the valley of death
and the angel of Satan appears at my shoulder
I will be resolute and fear no evil
And my Lord in heaven will guide my sword
btt
Society has used the term "Living Will" for decades to dictate our end-of-life wishes. I think the administration is simply proposing to have doctors counsel people about that option. It could be done during the annual physical, which would be paid for by Medicare. So, why does there have to be a provision that allows payment for the counseling service?
Doctor: "Have you considered what you want done if you should become incapacitated with no hope for recovery and someone else has to make decisions about keeping you alive?"
Doctors could pass out written Living Will information. The administration makes it so hard by talking all around the issue instead of being straightforward.
Now, I am going to sound really paranoid! I think their main concern is that they don't get in the way of attorney's fees associated with the writing of these wills.
“Freedom is Slavery”—a famous line out of the famous book “1984” and a must-read if you have not already.
Doctors and administrators trying to collect on that sick Death Panel lucre will find out what the word
ZOT!
means.
This quote from the article really should be the new slogan for the Obama Administration.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence this was released when it was least likely to be reported on, or noticed by the public if it was. Move along, nothing to see here ...
Very good call.
Notice how the corners of Obama's mouth are turned down in distaste. He can't hide his discomfiture.
A man like Obama should never rise above knee height when he is in the same room with a hero like that. Call it natural precedence.
Good point. We should help them get more notice when they do stuff like this.
Sarah ought to call attention to it ..... with a scythe ....
The one thing Blumenhauer and the rest are afraid of is that this will go viral—SO—FReepers, send this out to everyone you know. I just did.
Cradle to Grave. They got the Grave part down. Now they are working on the Cradle part.
Plus, I just sent the link as a news tip to Drudge. I hope we see it in the headlines soon.
We can be assured the Demonrats would follow the hyocritical example of Ted Kennedy just like they pay their taxes. Palin can hit them again for their death panels and no more medical advancements because they want to send everyone else to their grave.
First, the St. Petersburg Times should change their name to the Stalingrad Times. The sweet sounding name "PolyFact" is the opposite of what it says. When I heard a spokeswoman say they had the House Representative Alan Grayson as one of their panel member/contributors, I wanted to laugh at the utter hypocracy. That bahstid was caught BLATANTLY lying in a campagne ad against his opponent in the 2010 election (Grayson lost BTW after his lie was outed).
Tagline check.
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