From the LA Times, June 25:
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop
expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are
about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.
Read that again. Obama was subtly promoting euthanasia...
In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care."
He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.
Or maybe, President Obama, the decision should be left to the patient and patient's family?
This prime-time ratings fiasco was hosted by ABC News, with 164 invited guests, pre-screened questions, and no rebuttal time for the opposing view on Obama's rationed healthcare boondoggle. Thus, this was no surprise:
The audience - which included doctors, patients, health
insurers, students and people with ailing relatives - clearly was
unhappy with the current healthcare system. Gibson asked for a show of
hands to see how many wanted to leave the system unchanged. No one
raised a hand.
This was a set up. It was not media reporting, it was an unpaid infomercial.
Gregg Cunningham of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform blog had this to say about Obama's ominous comments during the "propaganda special extraordinaire":
Who will decide whether "you're better off" without the
surgery? Not your doctor but Mr. Obama. Does Mr. Obama really know "who
is about to die" and who "don't stand to gain" from extra care? And
what care is "extra?" As usual, Mr. Obama illustrates his point with a
very dishonest, false dilemma. Of course you don't do a hip replacement
on his very elderly grandmother whose very aggressive and terminal
cancer meant she might not have survived the surgery. But the type of
treatment decisions often criticized by rationing radicals are seldom
that obvious.Mr. Obama is willing to interfere in the relationship
between a doctor and his patient when the doctor is trying to save a
life but not when the doctor is trying to take a life. Is this the most
anti-life president in American history?
And this, from the Canada Free Press:
But who is it that will present the "evidence" that will
"show" that further care is futile? Are we to believe that Obama
expects individual doctors will make that decision in his bold new
government controlled healthcare future? If he is trying to make that
claim, it is a flat out untruth and he knows it....... [N]o doctor will be deciding if you are too old or infirm
to get medical care. It will be a medically untrained bureaucrat that
sets a national rule that everyone will have to obey. There won't be
any room for your grandma to have a different outcome than anyone else's....Ah, but we are told that Obama's ideas on healthcare are
"evolving"... [o]riginally, he said it was "healthcare for all," but...
it seems he's "evolved" to say that only those worth the bother should
get healthcare. The rest should be left to die and/or suffer....And whatever happened to the left's mantra that healthcare is a
"right" and that money should never enter into a life or death
decision? Now The One is saying it's just too darn expensive to save
the old and infirm.
Obama promotes euthanasia
WOW!!!! He needs to be impeached.
Health Care REform Bill
Where could one get a copy of the bill that is being so much in the news that I could read it for myself instead of depending on other peoples' interpretation. There are two totally distinctly different interpretations of the "death panel," and obviously someone is not telling the exact, total truth. I would like to read it for myself to see what it says.
To find out what the bill
To find out what the bill really says go to Health Committee .Gov and it’s on page 125. I think that is where you find the answers to what these people are talking about.
What they are talking about is a provision in the health care bill that would provide payment to the doctor if there was a patient wanted to discus living wills and who and when the plug would be pulled if it came down to that. As it stands now doctors do not get paid for that. By the way this was a by partisan amendment to the health care discussions. 1 ½ years ago Ms. Palin had a day set aside in Alaska to do the very same thing. There is no provision to end anyone’s life and in my opinion anyone who would fall for that lie should buy the ocean front property I offered IDPNC and Jheaton. That is one of the more ridiculous lies that is being told about the health care plan.
Besides there is no bill from either house at this time, therefore no one knows what will be in the final bill. Believe me when I tell you that this is a lie, plain and simple. Everything you want to know about what is taking place in Congress is on a government web site. They will all end with .gov, so check things out for yourself. That's the best way. Of course a little common sense goes a long way.
Charlie Lockett