Posted on 07/29/2016 9:06:34 AM PDT by oblomov
Even the best intentions cannot reverse the insidious effects of a wrong policy. When those who advocate for assisted suicide cite a benevolent desire to relieve suffering, the horrifying results of such a practice still lie just beneath the surface.
Recently, an elderly Vermont woman found herself repeatedly pressured to commit assisted suicide. Her grave ailment? Only a broken wrist. Nevertheless, staff at her rehab center “repeatedly asked the elderly woman if she was in pain or depressed; then they would remind her that she could commit doctor-prescribed suicide under the new law.”
Advocates of assisted suicide have blown off claims that these laws could lead to this sort of pressure to die. But in the face of high end-of-life costs, Guy Page of the Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare said, “It doesn’t take a health care economist to see the shortest distance in finding ways to reduce health care costs is physician-assisted suicide.” This means that in some circumstances, the main factor in “choosing” to die could very well be more related to money than patient condition.
‘Life Is Expensive but Death Is Free’
Oregon displayed a grim example of such pressures when the state Medicaid program began informing patients and doctors that many prescription medications and painkillers would not be covered—but assisted suicide would.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Peel back the corruption in government and you’ll find a morally corrupted populace.
Old people are bad. They remember stuff. Something about learning from history or something.
Bingo.
“Oregon displayed a grim example of such pressures when the state Medicaid program began informing patients and doctors that many prescription medications and painkillers would not be covered—but assisted suicide would.”
Sorry, Granny, we can’t give you any more vicodin, but we can end your pain forever, just sign on the dotted line...
Easy Fix, require ALL Public Employees in the State to get their Health Care through the Medicaid Program.
Old Bill should be worried...
Obamacare 2.0
Tacky was when they told a woman they wouldn’t cover her cancer treatment but would cover her suicide.
Bingo!
A majority of solid conservative voters are forty+ years old.
As they die out, NWO Establishment will increasingly use Silicon Valley liberal fascist punks to further censor / filter / kill off conservative news sources, historical citations.
Conservative ideas will once and for all become anachronistic and taboo.
RE: “Old people are bad. They remember stuff. Something about learning from history or something.”
Mom died about three weeks ago.
She lived with my sister. She was 83 and had COPD.
Last January she fell and broke her sacrum.
She was in rehab until the end of February. When she was sent home they scheduled continuing rehab in her home.
At the beginning of May they told my mom and sister that they were putting her on hospice. This was quite a surprise since mom was able to get around with the help of her walker and seemed to be making progress. They explained that hospice has changed and that it is given to those who have no expectation of getting better, even if they are not in imminent danger of dying. Some, they said, are on hospice for 3 or 4 years.
It was convenient. Mom’s doctors and nurses came to her. Her meds were delivered. But I had noticed that morphine had been prescribed with the instructions “to help her sleep”. Mom was not in pain.
Tuesday the 5th Mom was fine. Wednesday she was tired and stayed in bed. Thursday night/Friday morning she died.
I don’t know if the nurses that visited her gave her something, or if it were my sister, or maybe Mom took it herself, but I can’t help but suspect that Mom’s fast decline was helped along.
That’s my prediction, sadly.
Seems to be a solid Marxist-socialist mindset here after decades of pubic school and university indoctrination (planned, see Frankfurt School), with baby boomers the only ones remembering how it used to be before the nanny state we pretty much have now.
I also predict: There will be state votes on planned euthanasia, which will pass by vote or by court, and our departure will be sped up. They already covered stealing our assets after death if on govcare.
It will take a very, very strong fight to block this. We can’t block pervs in our girls’ bathrooms, so...
And they jeered at Sarah Palin for saying that the Affordable Care Act would lead to death panels...
How soon before “nutloss essers” reenters the American vocabulary — in some cleaned-up and more marketable form, of course?
The October Surprise to boost Hillary's ratings may be a full state funeral. I will be interested to see who is picked to be the riderless bimbo.
The riderless bimbo! Ack ack ack!
But, we won’t be surprised, will we?
They also have estates to be taxed while contributing little to the tax base anymore (consuming services instead, despite decades of paying for them for others).
Countries that murder innocent babies have no qualms about murdering innocent old people...
Don't need to sign anything, we just substitute the morphine.
Lots of morphine. (Hey, it's practically the same thing, right?)
Here's a tip: if you want to score a big stash of morphine, check with people who are in hospice care. There may be a fair amount of it left over after the patient is gone; the hospice makes sure there is P-lenty of it.
you are not mistaken, I experienced quite the same with my Father
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