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I rescinded my living will in protest of the attempt of the government to tell me what to do when I am dying.
Maybe I will, too. How dare big government tell me that I should be the one decide in advance if or when I want the plug pulled on me. I would rather that the doc who may never have laid eyes on me make that decision. Hopefully he/she will get input from my insurance company first.
Maybe I will, too. How dare big government tell me that I should be the one decide in advance if or when I want the plug pulled on me. I would rather that the doc who may never have laid eyes on me make that decision. Hopefully he/she will get input from my insurance company first.
I rescinded my living will in protest of the attempt of the government to tell me what to do when I am dying.
That was d***! Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face! You might be in an accident tomorrow, and be unconscious. Your family may fight over what to do, while you languish.
Kat, I don't want some government piece of you know what deciding that I shouldn't receive emergency medical care because I have a living will stating that I want no heroic measures. To H with that. I have no trust in an adminstration that is ruled by George Soros.
All the measure ever allowed was for doctors to be paid for the consults they are having already anyway...
How did allowing doctors to give out that admission and paying them out of Medicare save money? I never did understand that. However, I made an appointment with a lawyer to take care of my problems so i could refuse to make money for some doctor to give me that info. Isn't that very American of me, trying to save money?
Kat, I don't want some government piece of you know what deciding that I shouldn't receive emergency medical care because I have a living will stating that I want no heroic measures. To H with that. I have no trust in an adminstration that is ruled by George Soros.
Now mom, I have to agree with your last sentence there. I don't know who is pulling all the strings but do think that Soros is back in there somewhere.
Remember back when people began complaining about government running private health care agencies out of businesses by undercutting prices, and forcing companies who couldn't subsidize themselves with "free" tax money, to go bankrupt? And how this could eventually lead to the Govt being the only place you could get your health care... making the govt the only one in charge of deciding whether Granny should get expensive treatments that didn't have a 100% chance of prolonging her life?
Then came the news that this govt insurance would pay doctors for counselling session where they would give patients alternatives for end-of-life decisions.
Democrats screamed that these were not "death panels"... but in the Senate bill, they quietly took them out a week later.
Now, in the new 1,990-page House bill unveiled yesterday, they're back!
So-Called 'Death Panel' Measure Survives in House Health Bill
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON -- It's alive.
The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to "death panels" for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.
The legislation would allow Medicare to pay for a counseling session with a doctor or clinical professional once every five years. The bill calls for such sessions to be "completely" voluntary, and prohibits the encouragement or promotion of suicide or assisted suicide.
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Now mom, I have to agree with your last sentence there. I don't know who is pulling all the strings but do think that Soros is back in there somewhere.
C'mon...everyone knows that Soros is busy trying to get the IMF to "dump the dollar"...whatever that means.
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The repubs prefer Insurance Company death panels,...true death panels......
