Posted on 07/26/2009 8:58:53 AM PDT by cricket
Please read and take note folks:
Let you 'Reps; hear from you!
Section 1233 of HR 3200, the healthcare reform measure under consideration, mandates "Advance Care Planning Consultation."Further reading of the law reveals that these sessions are nothing more than a not-so-veiled attempt to convince the elderly to forego treatment.
HR 3200 calls outright for these compulsory consultations to recommend "palliative care and hospice." These are typically administered in the place of treatment intended to prolong life, and instead focus on pain relief until death. These are, of course, reasonable and beneficial options for terminally ill patients and their families.
But this legislation doesn't stop there. Section 1233 requires "an explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title." But, under the terms of the section, the federal government can compel more frequent end-of-life sessions if it declares a "significant change" in the health of the Medicare recipient, a change that the bill does not confine to fatal illness, but which encompasses broad and abstract conditions described as "chronic," "progressive," or "life-limiting." The bill even empowers physicians to make an "actionable medical order" to "limit some or all specified interventions..."
In effect, the government can determine that a "life-limiting" condition demands the withholding of treatment.
The bill puts the Secretary of Health in charge of life and death decisions coming out of these sessions. Under the heading, "QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE," the bill says, "For purposes of reporting data on quality measures for covered professional services furnished during 2011 and any subsequent year, to the extent that measures are available, the Secretary shall include quality measures on end of life care and advanced care planning that have been adopted or endorsed by a consensus-based organization, if appropriate.
Such measures shall measure both the creation of and adherence to orders for life-sustaining treatment."
These measures are merely an extension of the healthcare provisions hidden in the stimulus bill, which contained alarming new guidelines that required medical practitioners to judge whether or not treating certain patients was "comparatively effective." These decisions were to be based on the findings of a presidential advisory council on the costs of varying treatments.
As a result of these changes, treatment is now a question of "cost" and humans are viewed as potential "liabilities" instead of patients. kind of demagoguery imaginable.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) lacks any shame, saying that doctors who oppose this legislation have "lost sight of the common good and the pledge they took in the Hippocratic oath." Last time I checked, the Hippocratic oath didn't say anything about refusing to treat patients on the basis of cost.
And somehow, whenever the words "common good" are thrown around, individuals are about to be hurt. McDermott even went on to accuse anti-reform doctors of "practicing fear without a license," saying that "they should be subject to a malpractice suit."
President Obama has even been so disingenuous as to accuse Republicans of denying medical treatment to people that need it, saying, "The opponents of health insurance reform would have us do nothing. But think about what doing nothing, in the face of ever increasing costs, will do to you and your family."
This is a classic false choice scenario. Either we pass Obama's legislation, or people will die.
In fact, doing nothing is infinitely preferable to doing the wrong thing, especially when we're being pushed to move too quickly.
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We need to hold them accountable. And I'm not talking about the ballot box.
I checked the list: Your name definitely appears on it.
Good one.. .really ‘good’. . .
Why shouldn’t they? The elderly voted for him in droves, especially in South Florida.
While i personally don’t like it America is finally getting the government that the fools have been wishing and voting for for years.
The seeds that were sowed November 4, 2008 are about to be reaped. The harvest will be bitter.
Sounds like Hitler’s plans doesn’t it? Why don’t we all just get into boxcars and travel to the nearest concentration camp. I hate these people.
Yeah, let the Polar Bears get us, just like eskimos did.
Not for long if Obama has his way.
I won’t. I will just wait at my house and when they come to get me, I will do my best to tale some company. I will not go to one of obama’s camps.
Makes a cool bumper sticker: OBAMA CARE: GET OLD-GET TERMINAL-GET OUT OF THE WAY!
Nice to see you ;^)
Government Health Care
The Efficiency of FEMA
The Compassion of IRS
Eugenics, Abortion, Euthanasia. Only the “good” people are allowed to live and breathe and use up O2 and create CO2.
And who chooses the “good” people? Why that Government who runs the Health Care.
HR 3200 is demonic. It must be stopped. And the CongressDemonsOfDeath must be voted out of office. http://voteofnoconfidence.org
Paging Dr. Jack Kevorkian, please take your seat in the Cabinet.
Had not read this specifically; though had sent 'heads up' to Fox News re Emanuel and John Holdren last week; offering that as long as they are inviting the Socialists to debate; they should be prepared. Sent them this from 'American Thinker' this morning.
Think we should ALL be letting them know; that we know; and asking them to insure; that more know!
This all needs to hit the fan. Some of course; has already; but Repubs as well; need to shout it out. . . as do we.
Am going to carry copies of these 'issues'; leave on table in Starbucks'lol/. Hand them out should conversation arise; and/or just stick on cars with Obama signage/sigh!
I just don't understand, I really don't understand a culture that doesn't value life. Once we revered our parents and grandparents for not only for what they had done for us but for who they were and what they had learned. Have we really become a people that holds life so cheaply? Have we become a people that is willing to let the state put a price tag on a life? There are 3rd world countries with better values than what we are showing in this legislation.
I’ve just started referring to it as “Solvent Green”.
See my tagline...
Thanks - I was thinking that he’s always in the spin mode - I just added the horns as that’s how I see him.....
Thanks - I was thinking that he’s always in the spin mode - I just added the horns as that’s how I see him.....
INDEED! INDEED.
INDEED.
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