Posted on 08/19/2009 2:52:03 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
Sounds like they are counseling people to take themselves out even without terminal illnesses.
This is most terribly distressing.
And reading it in conjunction with what Bishop Clement von Galen wrote about the German "End-of-Life" program in 1941 -- we certainly can't claim we didn't see it coming.
May the Lord show us what we must do, and quickly.
Good lord...this is PURE EVIL!!
and Im bettin theres some hidden 'legaleze' in porkulus or the deathstar bills [or in ammendments waitin in the wings] to attach your med cost to yer family members SSN as leverage to take the check out pill...
Never write an "advanced care directive." You really don't know how you'll feel when push comes to shove. Instead, fill out a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, giving power to make health care decisions to someone you trust to look out for your welfare. They can make decisions for you, instead of you being bullied into agreeing to have the plug pulled, when you're weak and confused.
I've been there. When my first wife was dieing, they couldn't wait. They urged me to let them pull the plug on her. In her weakness, she might have let herself be bullied into it. I didn't put up with the bullying. She died peacefully when God was ready to call her.
Yep...I read it all the other day. They are ‘encouraging’ vulnerable people to opt for no care. There is no other way a compassionate and sane person could interpret this whole thing.
Bwahahahahahahaaa
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Thank you for your thoughtful post
In California at least it is in the patients best interest to have both. Your state may have a different set of laws.
I can’t speak for all the VA hospitals, but the one in my community has the most sub-standard Oncology program that I have seen in a long time. Because of budgetary restrictions, newer, more effective chemotherapy drugs are not even on the formulary, and treatments are comparable to the restrictions we see in the National Health Service in England. Any veteran who has insurance or Medicare would be far better off going to a civilian health facility.
There are no more precious, important patients than those who gave all for you and me and the rest of this great nation.
Of ALL OF US, our veterans should be so SPOILED when it comes to getting the BEST OF THE BEST that our veterans hospitals, imo, should rival the Cleveland Clinic or the Mayo Clinic or Johns Hopkins for the absolute most up to date, revolutionary medicine and technology/research facilities , combined with the absolute highest in medical care. ( And even total 24/7 care if needed, home or inhouse somewhere.) I would even be in favor of disallowing income tax leveling upon ANY VETERAN.
I mean it.
These are the people I want my tax dollars to support. Because I never went through the training, because I never suffered the heat of Kuwait, or Iraq or Afghanistan, or the humidity and heat of Vietnam or Korea, or the slaughter on the Normandy Beaches, or the cold of the European front, because I have NEVER REALLY SACRIFICED anything like our veterans have and continue to do, I would NEVER object to paying more for the best of the best medical care for our veterans.
What Rush just said about the death panel, so to speak, that uhbama has reenacted on our veterans (President Bush cancelled it, uhbama has had it reinstated) makes me sick.
If I were President, after national security matters were in hand, the first thing I would do would be to drop all of the money going to ACORN via community action networks and put all of it in a fund to upgrade and provide for every single veterans' hospital in our nation.
Thanks!!!!
And for the trolls? Bring. It. On.
bfl
Hannity and Rush have also brought this evil VA directive up on their shows. If Chris Wallace actually shows the questionaire on his show Sunday, you can expect Obama’s numbers to plummet even further. I hope every American reads those awful questions!
The bill requires doctors to provide it. Since the patient won’t have a choice on their doctor it requires them to receive it.
WHERE does it say that the doctor must provide this? I’m calling you on that claim.
“WHERE does it say that the doctor must provide this? I’m calling you on that claim.”
Thats nice, I’ve read it in numerous places. I’ve listened to numerous discussions with experts who says its mandatory. I’m satisfied its the truth. Call all you want, you say you don’t support this bill but your posts speak differently.
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