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We’ve been seeing this coming for decades, haven’t we?
It seems our fellow Americans won’t wake up to this until they’re told they can pick up Grandma’s body at the morgue.
Escort the elderly out to the glacier and leave them there to die.
-PJ
Before the Moslem Tyrant destroyed American healthcare,
and the military, and the borders, and the morals,
and the Law, patients afflicted with advanced cancer
were treated ... and many were cured.
No more, unless it involves a member of Congress,
their staff, or in bed with one.
Nahhhh, Palin simply couldn’t have been right...
It’s one thing if, for medical and financial reasons, your HMO denies coverage beyond a certain level. You still might find acceptable life-saving care on your own or from some charitable source. But when your government says you’re toast, you’re toast!
This is going to become more and more common and the sheeple will learn to accept it. Opposition to death panels will be considered “extremist” within a few years.
bkm
From Wikipedia's modern American version
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery. I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God. I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure. I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm. If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help. —Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University
I don’t agree with this but I do wonder - since when is everyone “entitled” to the latest most expensive treatments? It’s as if some people think money and resources are unconstrained. Someone has to pay for all this. I think everyone should be able to pay for whatever care they can afford.
Given the movement towards socialism what is happening in Oregon is inevitable. This is what the voters get and deserve. This is exactly the reason why we should NOT have socialized medicine.
Note that they start with Medicaid patients and say it is a budgetary measure. It won’t end there. This is the camel’s nose under the tent.
When we have the technology to technically keep someone alive forever more or less at enormous cost of course someone somewhere is going to be making the decision to pull the plug before they are bankrupted.
It can't control the truth, wisdom, knowledge, and experience that grandma and grandpa pass down to their descendants. Especially their warnings of tyranny. Older people care less and less about political correctness and self-censorship as the years of their lives slide into the past.
It is in the best interest of beast.gov to silence those voices... the voices Barack Obama said to reject.
Just buried my husband today with full military honors. He fought cancer for years and I treasure every additional minute that he was able to live and spend time with his children, grandchildren and me. Life is precious but in today’s world of moral decay...little matters.
DEATH PANELS ARE HERE, ALL YOU @$$HOLES THAT SAID SARAH PALIN WAS CRAZY.
Yes, I'm shouting. As if liberals can possibly be made to hear.
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“... deemed ...”.
Probably best to get a job as a “deemer” .... just a precaution.
just wonder how the gub’mint will deal with alzheimer’s patients. more and more baby boomers are reaching retirement age and not enough youth to deal with the number of people to support the crazy spending.
i have my mother living with me now, 77 diagnosed with alzheimers and the medical field has already changed in two years. care is getting sketchy, 4 physicians have left the area and only 1 nurse practitioner has been hired, medical appointments more spread out, when seeing the physician excellent care being given, no need for nursing home placement. Only 2 nursing homes in the county (of 14,000 people, yet the county consists of area of 532 miles) where I live in. 2 year waiting list. no hospice, adult day care services closed doors a year ago. services virtually non existent.
The zero info-bots think this Obamacare is Big Government at its best. To have a few terminal cancer patients denied further treatment is the price to pay for the wonderful government trough. They would sell their mother and send this nation down the river to get their free stuff.