So you’re saying that these days, the actual death of the dying is often hastened because medical professionals and family members starve and dehydrate the patient...even though this dying person can still eat and drink? What hospice provider would permit this, and why have you not documented and reported the staff to your state boards?
It happened in a Florida hospice a number of years ago. Maybe you heard of the case? The victim’s name was Terri Schiavo. It was going on before then and has exploded in prevalence since then. I’ve spoken to Terri’s brother, sister and mother at several pro life conferences now. They are dealing with multiple cases like hers every day.
Google search hospice and Medicare fraud. The most common charges are certifying patients as hospice eligible who are not actually terminal. If you take an elderly patient who is not terminal and certify them as terminal to bill Medicare, and take away all their chronic meds (to save money, the hospice provider has to pay for all meds related to terminal diagnosis) that patient suddenly appears to be hospice eligible very quickly and nobody asks questions.
Yes, I’m saying this is happening every day all across the country. Yes, I have personally witnessed it.
No, the government is not in the least interested in investigating it because its one of the ways ObamaCare plans to balance the books.
If only one out of five hospice and palliative care patient is dying prematurely due to premature removal of nutrition and hydration (pro life leaders I have personally spoken with fear the number is higher) and 1.6 million Americans were cared for within the palliative and hospice fields in 2013, then that’s about 300,000 cases of euthanasia per year today in the USA. It might be only one out of ten, it might be one out of four, but it’s the biggest pro life battle Christian conservatives are facing right now and very few are aware of its scale, and very few are willing to address it.