Posted on 03/28/2005 7:56:15 AM PST by Pendragon_6
Since the Terri Schiavo case began to dominate the headlines ten days ago, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has gone into virtual hiding - refusing to show up for last Sunday's vote on congressional intervention and offering no public comment on the case in the intervening eight days.
But in Sept. 1993, while appearing before Congress to sell her ill-fated health care reform plan, Mrs. Clinton suggested that she wanted to make it easier to deny long term care to patients like Schiavo who have little chance of recovery.
"I think there should be a discussion in this country about what is appropriate care . . . with more thought and more concern about both the human and the economic cost," she told the Senate Finance Committee. Referring to her own health care plan, Hillary explained:
"If we do this health care reform right [we can] create the kind of security we're talking about so that people will know that they're not being denied treatment for any reason other than it is not appropriate, it will not enhance or save the quality of life."
Mrs. Clinton hinted that she thought that even patients who were not necessarily terminally ill should be denied life-saving treatment
Continued
"If we do this health care reform right [we can] create the kind of security we're talking about so that people will know that they're not being denied treatment for any reason other than it is not appropriate, it will not enhance or save the quality of life."
/emphasis
Sound of wild cheering.
U.S. Code
TITLE 42 - The Public Health and Welfare
CHAPTER 138 - ASSISTED SUICIDE FUNDING RESTRICTION
§ 14401. Findings and purpose
(a) Findings Congress finds the following:
(1) The Federal Government provides financial support for the provision of and payment for health care services, as well as for advocacy activities to protect the rights of individuals.
(2) Assisted suicide, euthanasia, and mercy killing have been criminal offenses throughout the United States and, under current law, it would be unlawful to provide services in support of such illegal activities.
(3) Because of recent legal developments, it may become lawful in areas of the United States to furnish services in support of such activities.
(4) Congress is not providing Federal financial assistance in support of assisted suicide, euthanasia, and mercy killing and intends that Federal funds not be used to promote such activities.
(b) Purpose It is the principal purpose of this chapter to continue current Federal policy by providing explicitly that Federal funds may not be used to pay for items and services (including assistance) the purpose of which is to cause (or assist in causing) the suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of any individual.
§ 14402. Restriction on use of Federal funds under health care programs
(a) Restriction on Federal funding of health care services Subject to subsection (b) of this section, no funds appropriated by Congress for the purpose of paying (directly or indirectly) for the provision of health care services may be used—
(1) to provide any health care item or service furnished for the purpose of causing, or for the purpose of assisting in causing, the death of any individual, such as by assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing;
(2) to pay (directly, through payment of Federal financial participation or other matching payment, or otherwise) for such an item or service, including payment of expenses relating to such an item or service; or
(3) to pay (in whole or in part) for health benefit coverage that includes any coverage of such an item or service or of any expenses relating to such an item or service.
(b) Construction and treatment of certain services Nothing in subsection (a) of this section, or in any other provision of this chapter (or in any amendment made by this chapter), shall be construed to apply to or to affect any limitation relating to—
(1) the withholding or withdrawing of medical treatment or medical care;
(2) the withholding or withdrawing of nutrition or hydration;
(3) abortion; or
(4) the use of an item, good, benefit, or service furnished for the purpose of alleviating pain or discomfort, even if such use may increase the risk of death, so long as such item, good, benefit, or service is not also furnished for the purpose of causing, or the purpose of assisting in causing, death, for any reason.
LOLOLOL!!! Thanks. I needed to smile for a moment!!
bttt
If Hillary spends the next four years sounding like a moderate and also does a bangup job capitalizing on the heavy ammunition the american taliban have given her over Terri Schiavo ... we are massively effed.
With the finger in the wind and the polls in, Hillary speaks.
Reality: The democrats want to take away the elderlys' (and disableds') lives.
hillary follows the polls...
Pull the plug? Terri is NOT an appliance, Senator #!@%*!
I'm glad you posted that!
Thanks for making me hate you hillary! Another person i had respect for until this whole thing. She will never get a vote from me........and I will do my best to make sure (although i can't) she never is president. As much as i want a woman......I don't want a woman that is inhumane.
Here's another interesting one (?).
Seem's that if she would have been younger than 22 when this all started, there are federal standards for minimum care.
sickening.
Better yet....sew her mouth shut.
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Which one? Top front or low rear ??? ;-))
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They're not 'pulling the plug;' rather they are denying food and water.
Thanks for the ping!
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