Why do taxpayers have to fund conversations that probably already take place without government regulation?
bumping for later
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.
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.
I’m glad to discuss my end of life plan with anyone and everyone. Here it is:
At the end of my end on earth, after I die, I will go immediately to be face to face with my Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah, and in that place I will live forever for eternity, without time, praising and worship him.
No federal government needed.
PREPARE YOURSELF>
On Death Panels...
Before we can reasonably discuss death panels, we have to look at medical treatments. Medical treatments fall into one of three categories: (1) Ones that cure (for instance, giving Amoxicillin to a patient with an ear infection< (2) Ones that prolong life (for instance, giving a diuretic to a patient with Congestive Hearth Failure), and (3) Ones that are futile (for instance, performing surgery for prostate cancer on a patient who already has advanced metastatic lung cancer or giving a patient an antibiotic to which the bacteria causing his infection are already resistant).
Nobody is really arguing about those treatments that fall into the third category. Everyone from Hippocrates on down has believed that these are unethical. Every medical intervention carries a potential downside (from something as mild as a drug rash to death) and if it carries no benefit, it’s wrong. Remember, “first do no harm.”
What we as physicians are worried about is the rise of a federal bureaucracy that will begin denying treatments that fall into category 1 or 2 on the basis of cost - something the NHS does in England regularly. This is the sort of bureaucracy that becomes a death panel.
Back to the phones on Mon, no rest for the weary AKA the average American citizen.
Combine excellerated deaths with the huge tax on inheritences and you’ve got the Rats killing you off so they can get “their cut”, asap.
Someone tell me, that this is not part of the plan, I dare ya!
Here you go, end-of-life counseling. Soylent Green.... it’ll be nice, peaceful even....