Feds to Consider Paying Doctors for End-of-Life Planning (Death Panels Resurrected)

Stateline ^ | June 1, 2014 | Michael Ollove

[abb]

Was there ever any doubt?

[binreadin]

I'm against Obamacare, but this is very unfair and misleading. People die, and the opportunity for humane end-of-life planning can be extraordinarily helpful for both the patient and the family members. This is also an opportunity to give the patient a real choice between a peaceful and supportive last days, or weeks of useless, expensive cancer treatments that often speed up the patient’s death, rather than extend their life, inflicting more misery on the family members as well. Don't get on the wrong side of this argument. Big money moves a lot of the recommended late-stage treatments, not humanity.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You get a bonus for every peasant who croaks.

[Paulie]

This is all a lie. I know it because it was Sarah Palin who warned us about death panels from the beginning. And Sarah Palin just can't know what she's talking about because...well, because the elites keep telling me so.

The satanic left wouldn't lie, would they?

[MrB]

Ah, so now there’s actual bonus payments for offing “too expensive” seniors.

[grania]

was there ever any doubt?

I get it that people should not be denied medications or treatments that improve or extend their lives. I also get it that there's no way to pay for the medical care if there aren't some restraints on what's covered.

It's a dilemma we discussed in philosophy class in college in the 1960s. What happens when medical treatment gets so expensive that there's no way to cover its costs, except for the very wealthy? We've reached that point. The only answer would be to find less expensive treatment options.

Instead, big pharma is doing everything in its power to stifle natural and inexpensive treatments.

[I want the USA back]

There was never any doubt about this.
I knew they would use our money to pay for abortions, aids treatment, sex “change” operations, and hasty deaths for the elderly.

[pabianice]

The veterinary term is “Final Care.”

[onyx]

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[sickoflibs]

RE :”People die, and the opportunity for humane end-of-life planning can be extraordinarily helpful for both the patient and the family members. This is also an opportunity to give the patient a real choice between a peaceful and supportive last days, or weeks of useless, expensive cancer treatments that often speed up the patient’s death, rather than extend their life, inflicting more misery on the family members as well. Don't get on the wrong side of this argument. Big money moves a lot of the recommended late-stage treatments, not humanity.”

I agree, Unfortunately I have been through this before with aging relatives, and have seen it go both ways.

Not just that people die, but many also live to a state where they are unable to make decisions and so those that refuse to plan ahead for that leave a big mess behind for someone else to deal with.

My grandmother didn't want to be kept alive long term fed by tubes and so she put that in her living will while she could still reason..And she wanted to die in her own house not a hospital.

[Sacajaweau]

I see MANDATORY Planned Death Seminars in our future which includes making a decision NOW.

[staytrue]

“You get a bonus for every peasant who croaks.”

I wonder if it will be like speeding tickets where you have an end of month quota to meet for killing off old people.

I will give the democrats some credit. They know Obamacare is a budget buster. Well here is one manner of addressing that issue.

Kill the old people. Kill them now.

[dragonblustar]

This is also an opportunity to give the patient a real choice

Bunk.

[abb]

I guess Adolf Hitler was just “ahead of his time...”

[TWhiteBear]

This scheme is a real opportunity to coerce the sick, old and ailing into dying quietly, just to save money.
DD has a co worker, widow, and mother of several children, who was just diagnosed with a fast growing cancer. The doctors said they could treat it with a good chance of success, if they started promptly. And under !!#Obamacare**!!
she has insurance coverage and low rates and a subsidy.
But wait, there's more.
Obamacare will not allow her to get treatment for three months with lists and forms and all.
Game over, she is a dead woman walking(ok, not walking much now).
TWB

[Balding_Eagle]

Salvation, there is someone here blind to what this really is.

Can you provide those links of how this ‘compassionate’ assistance works with the helping hand of Big Government?

It probably will help others clicking on this thread.

[GT Vander]

In a country where it’s legal for parents to murder their children, it’s only a matter of time before it’s legal for children to murder their parents.

It’s going to happen, and the ACA only speeds that time.

[amihow]

Do not go to any doctor who does this. He or she is not a healer. They have turned their back on “ first do no harm” to social engineering.

[amihow]

You can never forsee all the issues in advance. Not wanting cpr when in last stages of terminal disease is not the same as cpr because anesthetic went wrong.

Culture of death is on the march.

[MarMema]

I agree. Providers have been helping patients ease out when life is very painful and nothing can be done for as long as I have been in the medical profession. I have never seen this done when there was hope. I hate it that the feds have to now get involved.