The only logical conclusion is that they're not well-meaning, it is just about money and power.
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Just what we need.
And what’s to stop someone with an agenda from falsifying, IOW lying on the form as they evaluate the patient?
Absolutely NOTHING.........
The Death Panels are essentially a way to “fix” the SocSec and Medicare financials.
Each year sliced off the life expectancy is a huge plus.
When the millennials get uneasy over grandma’s premature demise, the govt will send out Groupons for student loan relief.
One of the many reasons Congress exempted themselves.
Elderly Person = 99% of Congress
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Seriously ill old people have a "duty to die and get out of the way." Democrat Richard D. Lamm former governor of Colorado
Palliative End of Life Optimum Serenity Initiative. PELOSI
People know that if they have to go to the hospital and are ill, they make sure they have someone who will make noise for them so they are not shuttled to a back room in order to die alone.
People have told me I am wrong about this, but believe me I am not wrong. This list just shows how they have planned to deem an old person unfit for care, but their treatment of all truly sick people, especially the ones who have no one to speak up for them, is equally appalling.
Gotta get rid of those old Whiteys so the new occupants of this country can come and take their place.
So how come labor politician and socialist Attlee got elected over conservative war hero Churchill after WWII.....?
Answer.,.....he lied...promised free medical care for the returning soldiers and their families....
Once elected the labor party promptly nationalized coal, electricity, transport, railways and hospitals,....food rationing extended to mid 50's
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Note that the Supreme Court refused to get involved in the Terri Shiavo case because it was a state power issue.
I have no doubt that the people running healthcare companies will pay themselves bonus money for killing people.
Bob: We need to move more people to the cemetery to cut costs.
Roger: You are right, I want a new swimming pool and the bonus money will come in handy.
the Liverpool pathway was supposed to be for folks whose pain could not be controlled any other way. Alas, soon it morphed into killing people faster.
Similarly, not giving IV fluids and feeding tubes is a nuanced decision (in multisystem failure, these things only prolong the dying process...
in the comatose, a feeding tube leads to pneumonia and death within six months, so it doesn’t really prolong life if the person can’t swallow. The problem is that often these are inserted because the nursing homes lack staff to spoon feed these people, which takes time to do carefully... This is why I doubt Terri Schiavo was PVS).
In recent years, not giving fluid and hydration by IV or tube too has morphed into killing the inconvenient, even to the extend that some “ethicists” would deny spoon feeding of the brain damaged. This is why Pope John Paul II changed the church law on feeding tubes and insisted they be used if a person was merely handicapped and not terminal.
Of course, nowadays, the term “terminal illness” is being stretched to include lots of diseases that can be treated.
Diabetic and needing dialysis is expensive, so watch carefully when the “experts” start denying this treatment...