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Medicare to cover voluntary consultations between individuals and their doctors about end of life care, including whether or not to write a living will. Several Republican lawmakers have endorsed the idea in past legislation.
Liars. Plain and simple.
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Are these people taking pills which lower their IQ or is the lower IQ drug in the water they drink???? Do they not ‘remember’ medicare is a government program anyway. Sheeeesh.
Health care directives have been around for years, doctors already routinely discuss health care directives and living wills with their elderly patients.
@Janine; I think the Republicans know that fear works best on the uninformed and enough people have not experienced end of life counseling etc. I was surprised too that so many elderly did Not know their Medicare was federally paid. I understand your “Sigh”
My hospital (Hoag) now requires a NOTARIZED copy of your Living Will with a DNR (pull the plug) stipulation. Many hospitals do not want to happen to them what happened to the hospital and medical staff in Florida.
You can fault Terry Schiavo and the republican religious right for interference into her and her husband’s life for this portion of the bill. It was introduced by a Republican. (I heard his name on Rachel Maddow, but don’t recall)
My doctor said on my next visit I should bring my family members and we can go over all scenarios The bill stipulates that this consultation will be paid for.
My friend was at the last stage of his terminal disease – He and his family discussed with the doctor what was best for hi -.hospice, home family care etc.
This has been “cleared up” over and over again on every news station discussing this section. Yet it is still being used by Limbaugh, Beck etc right in the very face of fact (I know that’s no news) This propaganda technique of repeating a falsehood over and over and over works! It got us into war!
“This propaganda technique of repeating a falsehood over and over and over works! It got us into war!”
Good reminder @Dahl!
I just saw this article pop up through yahoo. It’s really good
Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama’s ‘Deadly Doctor,’ Strikes Back http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090812/us_time/08599191583500
talks about “The attacks on Emanuel are a reminder that there is a narrow slice of Americans who not only don’t trust government, but also have come to regard it as a dark conspirator in their lives. This peculiar brand of distrust helps create the conditions for fast-moving fear-mongering, especially on complex and emotionally charged topics like the life and death of the elderly and infirm.”
The quote doesn’t make much sense. Is he saying the government shouldn’t determine that it has the right to make end-of-life decisions, or that government shouldn’t determine that you (meaning the citizens) have a right to make end-of-life decisions for yourself and family members who can’t speak for themselves? Because it is the government’s responsibility to give us the right to that information about end-of-life care, and it’s our right to make those decisions for ourselves and our family. Grassley sounds like he doesn’t think we should have the right to make those decisions.
But what ticks me off the most is that nobody is talking about Terri Schiavo in this debate about end-of-life decisions. It was the REPUBLICANS who called an emergency congressional session in the middle of the night to make sure that she was kept hooked up to the machines, and it was the DEMOCRATS who said that it wasn’t government’s place to decide how that poor woman lived or died.
We all just have to keep educating everyone we meet and keep this topic out in the open and carry materials and source references with us! Our CCH has now started to give us all business cards and fact sheets so that we will be taken seriously as people who have been educated about this and other issues so people will take us seriously and know that we carry the facts! It feels good to give them out and know that we are helping people learn! We are also doing constant bird-dogging of all our Congressional Reps and Senators! We just have to keep at it! Keep being more active and make more of an impression than the screamers!
Obama is uncomfortable with his own former doctor because his doctor keeps saying that single payer is the only option that will make a difference! That undercuts Obama saying he is willing to compromise down to some version of “public option”. But my doctor tells me they have put so many poison pills into the public option bill that it is no longer a good option. He also says single-payer is the only way.
Government has a monopoly on power. It makes the laws, enforces the laws, and has the courts to legitimize the laws. They own the police, the army, the guns and the tanks. We freely give them that power in order to protect us from breaches of contract. (A breach of contract could be taken literally, or it could be construed to mean harm caused by one party to another party, such as a violent crime.) Its how the government protects us from both internal and external threats.
But we also have systems in place to restrict that power, for without restriction, any government will simply grow stronger and stronger. The government is managed by individual people. Those people do not always have our best interests at heart. Many times, they have their own best interests in mind. They will seize more power if permitted. That’s why we have elections; to remove them if they attempt to take too much power. It’s our duty as citizens to enforce the rule of “government by the people, for the people”, and keep them in check.
“The legislation anticipates saving hundreds of billions of dollars by reforming the health-care system itself, a process that would try to increase the efficiency of medical care by better connecting payments to health outcomes and discouraging doctors from unnecessary tests and procedures. The Obama Administration hopes that many of these reforms will be made in the coming years by independent panels of scientists, who will be appointed by the President and overseen by Congress.”
When I read that quote from the article you linked to Janine, my blood goes cold. I see a government trying to grasp even more power. Anyone with an understanding of the true role of government sees the same thing. It’s those people who you see finally standing up and doing their duty as citizens.
We’re Americans. We’re the most creative, resourceful group of people around. We can find a way to lower the cost of health care, without giving the government more power over us. If making health care affordable for all is the goal, we can accomplish it. If making the government more powerful is the goal, we should stop it.
If you people have not read the House bill, do it. I have and I’m telling you that death panels and knocking off old people are going to be the least of our problems. The bill calls for DEATH SQUADS to roam the streets killing people on sight. It’s all part of the Obama plan to exterminate us all. Old, young, rich, poor, christians, muslims, jews, black, white, everyone.
I urge you all to attend town halls and protest. Tell democrats that we refuse to be exterminated! The founding fathers made no provision for DEATH SQUADS!! Protect and preserve the constitution! No DEATH SQUADS!!
Madness, come on, you can’t get away with a joke post that is so obvious! #1 There IS NO BILL! so you start out being silly. I do think you did a good job covering the talking points of the insanity.
Thx Lady/Bro for a fun piece. Now go lay down. :-Dahl
@Tommy, that is an interesting statement in your post: “Anyone with an understanding of the true role of government sees the same thing” Extremely well put because it brings to fore the difference in the reasoning and thinking between the Right and Progressives. Right sees it as government take over and Progressives see it as Corporation taking over. Now that is very simplistic I know and the country wouldn’t work if we didn’t have both.
Go through your comment once more (come on Tommy with an open mind) and everywhere you see the word government replace it with the word corporation.
Corporation “has a monopoly on power” albeit we the people ARE the government – corporations OWN the government. Its been going on and getting worse for some time by paying off anyone in Washington that has a lick of influence.
Corporation “will simply grow stronger and stronger”. With that money and the power they have they can run this country any way they want without being seen They are the true “Shadow Government” Tom Delay sped up the process. He not only slept with corporations. He actually allowed them to be on the Senate floor during votes – handing out frigging cash! (Im still not over that one) Can’t put all the corruption here or show how they use their power, there are many books that expose the fanatic egos of some CEO’s and congressman.
Corprations “are managed by individual people”. CEO’s do not always have our best interests at heart. They have their own best interests and the interest of the stockholder in mind. They will seize more power if permitted (and they have been permitted since Reagan lifted regulations). i.e.you hear about all those fines laid on them for violation of the obvious regulations like health – guess what, a report came out 2 years ago that not ONE penny of those fines have been paid.
Everyone relies on the stock market. With every layoff corporate stocks go up. Stockholders are happy with more money and economists praise the lord. Some corporations actually admitted they were doing OK financially but were afraid of what was coming so they lay off a bunch of people too. The new business mantra is “Concentrate on your core product and out source any anything and anyone that is not maintaining the core. I understand bottom lines – but bottom lines have no room for sympathy that your going to loose your home or compassion for your family breakdown. There just has to be a balance between labor and corporate. And actually corporations need to give back some of that delicious power to government. Hell we have even outsourced our military through BlackWater (old name)
OK, I’m doing Progressive Speak now
There are, of course, other differences but I thought you brought that one out quite effectively.
Thanks @Dahl. Good point and well put. Large corporations are self-serving, just like government.
Tom Delay was crooked, but in my opinion, so are Barney Franks and Chris Dodds. Every politician is influenced, at one time or another, by special interest groups.
I believe corporations can be lumped together under the term “special interest groups”. Any group that tries to influence public policy to benefit their agenda is a special interest group. Our beliefs in a particular “cause” leads to the establishment of special interest groups that then work to advance that cause. Corporate heads work for the stockholders who believe in their “cause” of making more money. The only groups that the politicians should be working for are the constituents who elected them.
The method used by government to support one particular group, is by restricting another group. Anytime that you restrict a group, you’ve restricted the individuals within that group. That doesn’t stop under either Democrats or Republicans. The balance of who gains or looses just shifts, with most of us just going along for the ride.
Making government stronger will not solve the problem of influence by special interests. Limiting access to politicians might help, but it hasn’t been effectively implemented yet.
I personally think the solution lies within each of us. With our consent, those special interest groups are relentless in selfishly advancing their causes. Selfishness exists in each of us. We then give it to special interest groups and to the politicians. If each of us uses some integrity to support actions that establish win-win scenarios, and discourage actions that seek to “crush” the opposition or make the government stronger, we might stand a chance of getting a handle on the problem.
@Tommy I totally agree that most of our politicians are either crooked or in training – both parties. DeLay was just the most egregious at the time. And I understand it to a point. You need to have an ego with a thirst for power just to apply for these jobs – but the need should not be insatiable – it should stop when you no longer are thinking of your country.
I wasn’t really speaking Just about the Special Interest groups as corporations being able to do harm without anyone knowing it. Special Interest groups are just that, Groups – all pharmacies belong to a collective who hires Lobbyist to speak to congress regarding an issue that will effect their business (although some of them will do it under the guise of a front group like “Americans for children” etc. Nothing illegal about that we just need to be aware. If you have an interest there is a group somewhere “looking out for your interest”. I agree there is a lot of corruption and bottom line greed with these groups and they need to be monitored. The way corporations harm us without involving the government (which I believe is much more flagrant) is by ripping us off in little insidious ways that add up to millions
If the government is messing up or ripping me off I have the right to petition as guaranteed by the First Amendment. If a corporation is ripping me off I have a Right to seek redress in court but it will cost Me money and they will just say “Soooo what are you going to do about it” They actually have more power than the government. If a senator stiffs us he is generally exposed through the press and we can demand restitution. If a CEO stiffs us there is no way to know . Even when we do find out there is no way to make a law to cease the activitiy because it is a private entity. And remember no court fines have been paid by any corporation. Using the pharmacy example. Same pharmacy charges Americans $30 and Mexicans $4.50 for medicine. Look at the harm just recently done by the insurance conglomerates. Enron and WorldCom would still be ripping us off but for a whistle blower.
I think private enterprise should handle health care with the government assisting the poor. I’ve worked for the government (haha I used to pretend I was holding a coffee cup when I said that) but mostly with corporations. I had WAY too many complaints about the inefficiencies with the government– but found ways around it. The last corporation I worked for was WorldCom – remember then? I lost several thousands of dollars due to their fraud and corruption. (the laugh here?) After a court found unethical business practices, the company had every employee – even us lowly HR Consultants take a Ethics test! I told ‘em I accidently took a pencil home one day LOL but I thought it so funny that the guys on the 32nd floor are going to jail and WE are the ones taking the test?
Anyway I like the idea that I can real in the governments power, but I cannot Fight against corporate power I don’t even know is even ripping us off..
Are these people taking pills which lower their IQ or is the lower IQ drug in the water they drink???? Do they not ‘remember’ medicare is a government program anyway. Sheeeesh.
Health care directives have been around for years, doctors already routinely discuss health care directives and living wills with their elderly patients.
@Janine; I think the Republicans know that fear works best on the uninformed and enough people have not experienced end of life counseling etc. I was surprised too that so many elderly did Not know their Medicare was federally paid. I understand your “Sigh”
My hospital (Hoag) now requires a NOTARIZED copy of your Living Will with a DNR (pull the plug) stipulation. Many hospitals do not want to happen to them what happened to the hospital and medical staff in Florida.
You can fault Terry Schiavo and the republican religious right for interference into her and her husband’s life for this portion of the bill. It was introduced by a Republican. (I heard his name on Rachel Maddow, but don’t recall)
My doctor said on my next visit I should bring my family members and we can go over all scenarios The bill stipulates that this consultation will be paid for.
My friend was at the last stage of his terminal disease – He and his family discussed with the doctor what was best for hi -.hospice, home family care etc.
This has been “cleared up” over and over again on every news station discussing this section. Yet it is still being used by Limbaugh, Beck etc right in the very face of fact (I know that’s no news) This propaganda technique of repeating a falsehood over and over and over works! It got us into war!
“This propaganda technique of repeating a falsehood over and over and over works! It got us into war!”
Good reminder @Dahl!
I just saw this article pop up through yahoo. It’s really good
Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama’s ‘Deadly Doctor,’ Strikes Back
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090812/us_time/08599191583500
talks about “The attacks on Emanuel are a reminder that there is a narrow slice of Americans who not only don’t trust government, but also have come to regard it as a dark conspirator in their lives. This peculiar brand of distrust helps create the conditions for fast-moving fear-mongering, especially on complex and emotionally charged topics like the life and death of the elderly and infirm.”
The quote doesn’t make much sense. Is he saying the government shouldn’t determine that it has the right to make end-of-life decisions, or that government shouldn’t determine that you (meaning the citizens) have a right to make end-of-life decisions for yourself and family members who can’t speak for themselves? Because it is the government’s responsibility to give us the right to that information about end-of-life care, and it’s our right to make those decisions for ourselves and our family. Grassley sounds like he doesn’t think we should have the right to make those decisions.
But what ticks me off the most is that nobody is talking about Terri Schiavo in this debate about end-of-life decisions. It was the REPUBLICANS who called an emergency congressional session in the middle of the night to make sure that she was kept hooked up to the machines, and it was the DEMOCRATS who said that it wasn’t government’s place to decide how that poor woman lived or died.
We all just have to keep educating everyone we meet and keep this topic out in the open and carry materials and source references with us! Our CCH has now started to give us all business cards and fact sheets so that we will be taken seriously as people who have been educated about this and other issues so people will take us seriously and know that we carry the facts! It feels good to give them out and know that we are helping people learn! We are also doing constant bird-dogging of all our Congressional Reps and Senators! We just have to keep at it! Keep being more active and make more of an impression than the screamers!
Obama is uncomfortable with his own former doctor because his doctor keeps saying that single payer is the only option that will make a difference! That undercuts Obama saying he is willing to compromise down to some version of “public option”. But my doctor tells me they have put so many poison pills into the public option bill that it is no longer a good option. He also says single-payer is the only way.
Government has a monopoly on power. It makes the laws, enforces the laws, and has the courts to legitimize the laws. They own the police, the army, the guns and the tanks. We freely give them that power in order to protect us from breaches of contract. (A breach of contract could be taken literally, or it could be construed to mean harm caused by one party to another party, such as a violent crime.) Its how the government protects us from both internal and external threats.
But we also have systems in place to restrict that power, for without restriction, any government will simply grow stronger and stronger. The government is managed by individual people. Those people do not always have our best interests at heart. Many times, they have their own best interests in mind. They will seize more power if permitted. That’s why we have elections; to remove them if they attempt to take too much power. It’s our duty as citizens to enforce the rule of “government by the people, for the people”, and keep them in check.
“The legislation anticipates saving hundreds of billions of dollars by reforming the health-care system itself, a process that would try to increase the efficiency of medical care by better connecting payments to health outcomes and discouraging doctors from unnecessary tests and procedures. The Obama Administration hopes that many of these reforms will be made in the coming years by independent panels of scientists, who will be appointed by the President and overseen by Congress.”
When I read that quote from the article you linked to Janine, my blood goes cold. I see a government trying to grasp even more power. Anyone with an understanding of the true role of government sees the same thing. It’s those people who you see finally standing up and doing their duty as citizens.
We’re Americans. We’re the most creative, resourceful group of people around. We can find a way to lower the cost of health care, without giving the government more power over us. If making health care affordable for all is the goal, we can accomplish it. If making the government more powerful is the goal, we should stop it.
If you people have not read the House bill, do it. I have and I’m telling you that death panels and knocking off old people are going to be the least of our problems. The bill calls for DEATH SQUADS to roam the streets killing people on sight. It’s all part of the Obama plan to exterminate us all. Old, young, rich, poor, christians, muslims, jews, black, white, everyone.
I urge you all to attend town halls and protest. Tell democrats that we refuse to be exterminated! The founding fathers made no provision for DEATH SQUADS!! Protect and preserve the constitution! No DEATH SQUADS!!
Madness, come on, you can’t get away with a joke post that is so obvious! #1 There IS NO BILL! so you start out being silly. I do think you did a good job covering the talking points of the insanity.
Thx Lady/Bro for a fun piece. Now go lay down. :-Dahl
@Tommy, that is an interesting statement in your post: “Anyone with an understanding of the true role of government sees the same thing” Extremely well put because it brings to fore the difference in the reasoning and thinking between the Right and Progressives. Right sees it as government take over and Progressives see it as Corporation taking over. Now that is very simplistic I know and the country wouldn’t work if we didn’t have both.
Go through your comment once more (come on Tommy with an open mind) and everywhere you see the word government replace it with the word corporation.
Corporation “has a monopoly on power” albeit we the people ARE the government – corporations OWN the government. Its been going on and getting worse for some time by paying off anyone in Washington that has a lick of influence.
Corporation “will simply grow stronger and stronger”. With that money and the power they have they can run this country any way they want without being seen They are the true “Shadow Government” Tom Delay sped up the process. He not only slept with corporations. He actually allowed them to be on the Senate floor during votes – handing out frigging cash! (Im still not over that one) Can’t put all the corruption here or show how they use their power, there are many books that expose the fanatic egos of some CEO’s and congressman.
Corprations “are managed by individual people”. CEO’s do not always have our best interests at heart. They have their own best interests and the interest of the stockholder in mind. They will seize more power if permitted (and they have been permitted since Reagan lifted regulations). i.e.you hear about all those fines laid on them for violation of the obvious regulations like health – guess what, a report came out 2 years ago that not ONE penny of those fines have been paid.
Everyone relies on the stock market. With every layoff corporate stocks go up. Stockholders are happy with more money and economists praise the lord. Some corporations actually admitted they were doing OK financially but were afraid of what was coming so they lay off a bunch of people too. The new business mantra is “Concentrate on your core product and out source any anything and anyone that is not maintaining the core. I understand bottom lines – but bottom lines have no room for sympathy that your going to loose your home or compassion for your family breakdown. There just has to be a balance between labor and corporate. And actually corporations need to give back some of that delicious power to government. Hell we have even outsourced our military through BlackWater (old name)
OK, I’m doing Progressive Speak now
There are, of course, other differences but I thought you brought that one out quite effectively.
Thanks @Dahl. Good point and well put. Large corporations are self-serving, just like government.
Tom Delay was crooked, but in my opinion, so are Barney Franks and Chris Dodds. Every politician is influenced, at one time or another, by special interest groups.
I believe corporations can be lumped together under the term “special interest groups”. Any group that tries to influence public policy to benefit their agenda is a special interest group. Our beliefs in a particular “cause” leads to the establishment of special interest groups that then work to advance that cause. Corporate heads work for the stockholders who believe in their “cause” of making more money. The only groups that the politicians should be working for are the constituents who elected them.
The method used by government to support one particular group, is by restricting another group. Anytime that you restrict a group, you’ve restricted the individuals within that group. That doesn’t stop under either Democrats or Republicans. The balance of who gains or looses just shifts, with most of us just going along for the ride.
Making government stronger will not solve the problem of influence by special interests. Limiting access to politicians might help, but it hasn’t been effectively implemented yet.
I personally think the solution lies within each of us. With our consent, those special interest groups are relentless in selfishly advancing their causes. Selfishness exists in each of us. We then give it to special interest groups and to the politicians. If each of us uses some integrity to support actions that establish win-win scenarios, and discourage actions that seek to “crush” the opposition or make the government stronger, we might stand a chance of getting a handle on the problem.
@Tommy I totally agree that most of our politicians are either crooked or in training – both parties. DeLay was just the most egregious at the time. And I understand it to a point. You need to have an ego with a thirst for power just to apply for these jobs – but the need should not be insatiable – it should stop when you no longer are thinking of your country.
I wasn’t really speaking Just about the Special Interest groups as corporations being able to do harm without anyone knowing it. Special Interest groups are just that, Groups – all pharmacies belong to a collective who hires Lobbyist to speak to congress regarding an issue that will effect their business (although some of them will do it under the guise of a front group like “Americans for children” etc. Nothing illegal about that we just need to be aware. If you have an interest there is a group somewhere “looking out for your interest”. I agree there is a lot of corruption and bottom line greed with these groups and they need to be monitored. The way corporations harm us without involving the government (which I believe is much more flagrant) is by ripping us off in little insidious ways that add up to millions
If the government is messing up or ripping me off I have the right to petition as guaranteed by the First Amendment. If a corporation is ripping me off I have a Right to seek redress in court but it will cost Me money and they will just say “Soooo what are you going to do about it” They actually have more power than the government. If a senator stiffs us he is generally exposed through the press and we can demand restitution. If a CEO stiffs us there is no way to know . Even when we do find out there is no way to make a law to cease the activitiy because it is a private entity. And remember no court fines have been paid by any corporation. Using the pharmacy example. Same pharmacy charges Americans $30 and Mexicans $4.50 for medicine. Look at the harm just recently done by the insurance conglomerates. Enron and WorldCom would still be ripping us off but for a whistle blower.
I think private enterprise should handle health care with the government assisting the poor. I’ve worked for the government (haha I used to pretend I was holding a coffee cup when I said that) but mostly with corporations. I had WAY too many complaints about the inefficiencies with the government– but found ways around it. The last corporation I worked for was WorldCom – remember then? I lost several thousands of dollars due to their fraud and corruption. (the laugh here?) After a court found unethical business practices, the company had every employee – even us lowly HR Consultants take a Ethics test! I told ‘em I accidently took a pencil home one day LOL but I thought it so funny that the guys on the 32nd floor are going to jail and WE are the ones taking the test?
Anyway I like the idea that I can real in the governments power, but I cannot Fight against corporate power I don’t even know is even ripping us off..
We fight against corporate power with our wallets. Don’t buy what they’re selling.
Thats only if you know your being ripped off. Most times you don’t