Posted on 01/14/2014 2:59:00 AM PST by lbryce
Lesson No. 1: Publicly questioning the motives and intentions of a woman who is seriously ill with cancer can land you in a heap of controversy.
Writer Emma Gilbey Keller and her husband, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, seem to have found this out over the past few days. In a successive pair of columns in different publications, the Kellers opined about the prodigious tweets of a woman named Lisa Bonchek Adams, a Stage IV breast cancer patient in New York — and both reaped a whirlwind of outrage in the process.
For months, Adams, a mother of three, has been writing about her illness in 140-character bursts — tens of thousands of tweets detailing her treatment, condition and thoughts about an illness that has spread throughout her body. Her Twitter feed, followed by more than 10,000 people, is a painful chronicle of her decline, as well as a hopeful journal of optimism in the face of advancing darkness.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
REFERENCE Section 1311(h)(1)(B) gives the Secretary of HHS blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply.
REFERENCE--- More than half the cost of O/Care's so-called "senior entitlement" scam is subsidized by actually restricting and rationing senior care---by cutting what hospitals, doctors, hospice care, home care and Advantage plans are paid to care for seniors.
THE CUTS ARE NO ACCIDENT: "Tolerant and compassionate" Obama knows that the most expensive h/care is delivered the last three years of life.......
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CASE IN POINT---Sen Harry Reid, 74, recently said that enrolling in O/Care costs him about $4,500 more than before. But Harry says that's OK b/c the increase is "age-related.”
(Sniffle) "Tolerant and compassionate" Obama knows that the most expensive h/care is delivered the last three years of life...so oldsters HAVE to pay more (sob).
Heck, socking Harry w/ a massive increase could even save money. For sure, decrepit Sen Harry will necessitate expensive medical care for diseases of old age including the ones he's being treated for now--- senility, Alzheimer's, dementia, arthritis, osteoarthritis, heart problems, heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, prostate enlargement, osteoporosis (brittle bones)....etc.
Course, just in case ol' Harry hangs in there, Obamacare's I-PAB kicks in to ration medical care when stubborn old buzzards like Harry insist on getting more healthcare than his lousy $4500 per month entitles him to.
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Harry's dam lucky he represents Nevada---if he represented Alaska, he'd been on the ice floe w/ the rest of the older, sick Eskimos----floating out into the frigid Arctic Ocean wearing a sealskin coat, bearskin shorts, and a pair of mukluks.
What a horrible attitude to have.
I was wondering the same thing. If her tweets offended him so much why didn’t he just quit following her? Immature and arrogant to say the least.
>> Ever notice how the news is becoming more inappropriate every day?
Yup. Too many from the Left drive it.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
I have 2 family members with cancer. They can say and do anything they want. I will not question, because it is not me that is suffering what they suffer.
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So, the Kellers need to back off. This woman has three children, the youngest just 7 years old. She is not going to throw in the towel and give up. And, these days, a patient can live with Stage 4 cancer for many years (depending on certain factors).
” Apostrophes are your friends and shouldn’t (note correct use of apostrophe here) be terribly mystifying. “
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What a mean spirited post.
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The Kellers are vile and callous people.
Thanks for the ping.
The Kellers are idiots.
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As you like it.
That is hysterical. Good for you.
Pot.
Kettle.
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I love your poster picture of the baby. Will we ever make a serious effort to save the babies from abortion?
I wrote the comment not to admonish or castigate you in any way. I totally understand the point you were trying to make and the manner in which you made it. As far as I am concerned the use of your analogy did not violate anything that exceeded the boundaries of decency or good taste.
I wrote my comment simply out of a sense of moral compunction, strangely, and this has never happened to me before, as if disengaged from the post itself.
While I disagree and disdain their views on this, I cannot begrudge people the right to discuss. It’s good to be open rather than shut down in potentially important issues. When the shoe is on the other foot, we say the same sort of things. We disparage people who love Obamacare, or claim they will benefit from it.
Shows me a lot what the media types think of cancer patients. Wonder what they thought of Tony Snow getting a lot of story time during his fight with cancer. I am sure the couple sent him notes of encouragement. Instead how dare this “commoner” have more tweet followers than the Kellers had. /s
They really crossed the line. The woman has stage 4 cancer. They shouldn’t have used her story to make a point. But maybe the woman herself will get more hits on her blog now that they’ve drawn even more attention to it. :-0
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