Hospitals can end life support; Decision hinges on patient's ability to pay, prognosis

Houston Chronicle ^ | March 8, 2005 | LEIGH HOPPER

[BykrBayb]

With talent like I have, I don't need to. (And with my chest, it's just as well.)

[null and void]

Didn't stop Brandy Chastain...

[BykrBayb]

Oh, alright. Go get your magnifying glass, and let me know when you're ready.

[Windsong]

And how many of the screaming ravens that call for another civil war over Terri would have done so if she were, say, 102 yrs of age? Makes one wonder indeed.

[null and void]

I'm like a battery. Everready...

[Windsong]

So youre a fan of Benny Hinn?

[ClaireSolt]

It looks to me as if Medicare and Medicaid this year add up to a trillion $'s. Where does it go? Well, it seems to me that the radiologists lobbied Washington two or three years ago. Now my docs say they are required by law to offer me a $1500 colonoscopy and mamagram every time I go. You would just need to be around it to see the Medicare money machine. They would have us going to docs and specialists all of the time if we agreed.

Apparently we are paying more during the last year of people's lives than for health care during the whole rest of their lives combined, and this is about 25%. Elderly, sick people get expensive surgeries that just makes the end of their lives miserable.

There are 6 million incompetent people in nursing homes @ $3000/mo. And Bush says 20% of the cost can be wrung out by using IT. I'll bet there is lots of this life-support dispute. I know my neighbor just got drunk and stayed drunk for 6 months when docs suggested it to her. While I uderstood it was hard to face, I also knew the public was paying.

[BykrBayb]

Thank you for the English translation to that poster. It's pretty close to the original.

[BykrBayb]

Sorry. Changed my mind. The crowd in here is getting bigger, and I'm getting stage fright.

[PAR35]

Better said than I would have done. Thanks for your response to her.

[null and void]

There's always FReepmail...

[BykrBayb]

Check yours.

[null and void]

WOW! That's some boob!

ma'am...

[BykrBayb]

Yes. I certainly think so!

[af_vet_1981]

How many resources should be spent on palliative therapy?

None, every red-blooded American male should have the right to a pliable judge so he can kill any parent, wife, child, dog, or cat that interferes with his pursuit of pleasure.

Did I forget anything ?

[this_ol_patriot]

You have to do something with those extra 5 to 10 years you get from not smoking.
May as well get paid to watch your body fall apart.

[Sola Veritas]

"So youre a fan of Benny Hinn?"

No, I am a follower of Jesus Christ, God the Son. If He choses to heal He can and will. Prayer is never a waste, even if the answer is no.

On the other hand, Benny Hinn is a heretic and fraud. Don't equate him with Christianity and Faith in God.

[lastchance]

I assume it was a picture of one or both of the Clintons.

[BykrBayb]

Estranged wife, ex-wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister, brother, neighbor....

[BykrBayb]

Close.