Posted on 09/18/2014 12:15:42 PM PDT by BeauBo
The country’s system for handling end-of-life care is largely broken and should be overhauled at almost every level, a national panel concluded in a report released on Wednesday...
The 507-page report, “Dying in America,” said its recommendations...would produce significant savings that would help make health care more affordable.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Send old people home with enough opiates to overdose seems to be the proposed standard of care.
As in all things, whatever the left doesn't seek to ban, they will probably seek to make mandatory.
A national panel on death and dying....
...a National Death Panel, for lack of a better name...
But we don’t have one of those...
...Obama told us so...
If you are a Senior you don’t get a chest xray unless you smoke, you dont get an ECG unles you have HBP;if you are female only one mammagram every 2 yrs...pap smear every 2 yrs.....Good luck
Doing such diagnostic tests are likely to only uncover more conditions that are expensive to treat.
That just does not make sense to a bureaucrat who is rewarded for reducing costs.
“The country’s system”
The country should not have any such system. That is the problem. The very premise is collectivist and/or statist.
Do not change titles
Sorry, I didn’t know
When not provided Healthcare costs nothing. Brilliant.
Note how the NY Times journalist has to add this sentence: “The bottom line is the health care system is poorly designed to meet the needs of patients near the end of life,” said David M. Walker, a Republican and a former United States comptroller general, who was a chairman of the panel.”
This underpins their tired argument that “even Republicans support these types of initiatives.”
Looks like Governor Palin (and others) were right.
Osama Obama,June 2009
I thank God that when Obama's in his 80's he'll get everything he needs *immediately* and *free* (courtesy of working stiffs like us).
They are doing everything they can to get rid of the last of the good generations ASAP. My parents and the “Silent Gen”.
After realizing I couldn’t remember when I last had a PSA done I called my urologist. I know it was at least 2 yrs. They told me that after you are 80 yrs old they no longer do them. Classic example of what Sarah Palin called death panel.
Fortunately a local health store has an arrangement with LabCorp. For $25 they will give you an order for a PSA. Pretty reasonable compared what the hospital would cost. There are many reasonably priced lab work fees available.
http://www.doctorsnutrition.com/store/pc/viewContent.asp?idpage=1
They laughed when normal people said “death panels.”
I think a person should have all of the end of life care they and their family can afford.
Agree 100%
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