FBI raid shutters Medicare insurer (WellCare - formerly owned by George Soros)

St. Petersburg Times ^ | 10/25/07 | Kris Hundley

[8mmMauser]

Fred and Terri tar baby dailies...This from NRO!

That voice is fatherly, reassuring, calm. The contrast to Hillary couldn’t be sharper.

I’m going to say ‘well-briefed,’ but I know that will just spur one of the Thompson Associates to call me to tell me that’s not a sign of others briefing him, that’s a sign of Thompson’s own reading and study of the issues.

I was about to say that he was almost too conversational, that he could have used one quip or pithy summation at his views, and then, finally, at the tail end of his question on Schiavo, he summed up, “the less government, the better.”

When Fred Met Tim: Evaluating Thompson on Meet The Press

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Dying to address the topic, in a thread by wagglebee:

The day will come. It may be 50 years from today or it could be next month but the day will arrive when you are sitting in a doctor’s office or lying in a hospital bed, when you’ll hear the words, “There’s little we can do for you. We will try to control your pain as much as possible.

“You are dying.”

You may already be picturing your last days and hours — at home, in your own bed, surrounded by your loved ones, free of pain, ready to go. But that vision is wishful thinking. Most of us will draw our last breath in a hospital bed. Some of us will die alone, while many will be lost in a medicated fog.

Genetic counselling and in vitro fertilization has revolutionized how life begins. Now many think Canada is overdue for an honest public debate about how life ends.

Debating euthanasia

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[Jim Noble]

Euthanasia: Those who know, don't say. Those who say, don't know.

The worst possible thing that could happen would be for euthanasia to be legalized.

No physician has ever been convicted of a crime for administering morphine to someone in pain at the end of their life. Never.

And Kervorkian was sent to prison.

Everything works fine.

[8mmMauser]

Fred and Terri tar baby dailies in a thread of their own by Canticle_of_Deborah:

Fred Thompson told Tim Russert on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that he DOES NOT support a Human Life amendment. That position is part of the GOP platform. Here’s what the 2004 GOP platform says:

"We must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions." Here’s what Thompson said about it lifted from today’s Meet The Press transcript:

Fred Thompson says "No" to Human Life Amendment

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[syriacus]

Abortion isn't a religious issue

Someone tell this to the pro-aborts. They should stop insisting that opposition to abortion is completely based on religious belief.

Some of us oppose abortion because we believe that human conception results in a new human being (or multiple human beings). Human beings deserve protection at any stage of life.

[floriduh voter]

Dino Delaurentis’ relative, the chef, is expecting. I believe I was watching The Today Show and they showed the baby’s sonograms on NBC in various stages of development. I was shocked. Is NBC promoting life now or just chefs who are pg?

[floriduh voter]

Poor Mike Cowherd. If they ship him to a hospice, he’s toast. While healing takes time, assaults only take a few seconds.

[floriduh voter]

Evaluating Thompson: That article you linked to failed to mention Fred Thompson say, "Pull the feeding tube(s)."

So, I'd still like to know who's, when and where?

Fred Thompson fails biology with an "F". If we have a health crisis, God forbid, he'd get another "F".

[floriduh voter]

Debating euthanasia.

My advice is to get a long term care health plan where the insured gets to select their options for care. The worst thing is to end up having to forfeit everything to be stuck somewhere under Medicaid.

With staffing shortages, you can bet your last dollar, more people pass away on the weekends.

(and they aren't kept clean either).

Floridians need to have a plan or they'll be sorry. No, I don't sell long term care insurance but I strongly recommend it for Floridians so you can select where you want to be if you are unable to care for yourself.

Don't end up at Medicaid's mercy. Medicaid's good for the poor and the young but not for the elderly. That's my opinion. FV

[floriduh voter]

See my last re: your Dying to address thread.

[floriduh voter]

Wondrin’ if you like my new tag line. It sums everything up, ya think?

[floriduh voter]

ping

[floriduh voter]

THIS THREAD IS TERRI DAILIES News Digest for NOVEMBER, 2007. It’s the recognized FR anti-euthanasia category.

[bjs1779]

Someone tell this to the pro-aborts. They should stop insisting that opposition to abortion is completely based on religious belief.

There is nothing wrong that you say that, believe me.

[Sun]

You tag line nails it. And Chris Wallace, and various reporters, prove it.

[BykrBayb]

Okay, everybody act surprised now.

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http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7316704&nav=menu593_2

Cowherd died yesterday afternoon after his brother told hospital staff to take him off life support.

[Sun]

Prayers for all concerned.

I wonder what the life support was in this case.

[BykrBayb]

Another article said it took 15 minutes for him to die after being removed from life support. That sounds to me like suffocation.

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Sighhhh.... Why we must persevere,

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Fred Thompson today...

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Fred Thompson said in an interview on Sunday that he does not support the Republican Party's platform advocating a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution that would afford legal protection to unborn children and ban abortions. Thompson also reconfirmed he supports overturning the Roe v. Wade case that allowed abortions.

In an interview with Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press" television program, Russert read Thompson the language of the GOP's pro-life platform.

He asked the Republican presidential hopeful, "Could you run as a candidate on that platform, promising a human life amendment banning all abortions?"

"No," Thompson replied. "No. I have always—and that’s been my position the entire time I've been in politics."...................

Fred Thompson Doesn't Back Amendment Banning Abortions, Wants Roe Reversed

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