I agree. And considering the targeting that's been going on - she did the right thing by removing herself as governor so she could be free to challenge those trying to put one over on u.s.Did Palin nail it on the ';end of life counseling'; or what?
Oddly, the ';end-of-life'; counseling is of great benefit to the health insurance companies... the big, bad companies which Obama wants to ';fix';.
How glad will/would they be to be rid of that costly prolonged end-of-life stuff?
How ';down'; on health insurance ';rackets'; [Harry Reid's term] is Obama?
Look what his ';health czar does....
';DeParle's contacts already helped avoid one pitfall, Politico.com reported. When she heard that insurance company BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina planned a series of web-ads criticizing the White House-supported public insurance option, DeParle got on the phone to the company's CEO. The end result: the ads were yanked.';(1)
Yeah! OZbama is gonna ';fix'; 'em all right!
End of life discussions and advance directives are already a part of healthcare. They are often mandatory in many hospitals. The difference is that your insurance company or medicare is not part of the discussion.
To include provisions and financial incentives for Doctors to push these matters on patients in the context of a Democrat bill designed to cut health care costs is frankly, disturbing.
Yes Sarah Palin made a very valid point.
You are mixing apples %26amp; peanuts. The finance committee removed provisions that would allow Drs to receive Medicare payments for counseling patients about living wills, etc. If you have been to a hospital or nursing home the past few years, you would realize that they are required to ask who will look after your affairs, should you become incapable. Palin's remarks were far from correct. Please notice that none of the Republican reps in Congress agree with her comments.
It is ironic that Christians, who believe in such a wonderful life after this one, at least for other Christians, want to do everything they can to make us suffer here. I have known several people who got to the point in life where it is only misery and suffering from that point on. There is nothing less humane or insensitive than to tell someone they cannot die if they have carefully thought it out and realize that it is a viable alternative.
Christians don't really believe in death. There is only bliss for the good ones and eternal suffering for the bad ones like me( please try not to enjoy the notion of me being in agony for eternity too much).
Anyone who has seen someone go through a long painful death knows how agonizing and horrible it is. Just because you say some super being says we don't have the right to decide doesn't make it so.
Many of the people who give me thumbs down may reconsider at some point in their lives. No one is forcing anyone to do anything.
But ignorance, contrary to popular belief, is not better than knowing the alternatives
Palin quote you can read it anywhere..(As governor, Palin declared April 16, 2008, ';Healthcare Decisions Day,'; signing a proclamation to ';encourage medical professionals and lawyers to volunteer their time and efforts to ... increase the number of Alaska's citizens with advance directives.';) Hello living will. end of life decision what a hipocrite
People like Palin and Grassley were for the ';death panel'; before they were against it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14鈥?/a>
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/鈥?/a>
The left is totally afraid of Palin. That's why she is so vilified. She is a true American, with a lot more smarts than Obama, or Biden or Pilosi!
What a bunch of lies....that same verbiage is in Medicare...a consultation with a Doctor...you people are funny and so uninformed. Palin has her OWN scandal on the elderly!
Sarah Palin鈥檚 Medicaid Scandal: Letting People Die While Waiting
The Anchorage Daily News just broke a story about a scandal in Alaska's administration of its Medicaid program. It seems federal auditors have suspended new entry into the program because of gross mismanagement by Alaska officials that was leaving hundreds untreated and may have resulted in over 200 deaths while patients were waiting for treatment.
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life -- taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom -- are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare %26amp; Medicaid Services.
In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she's so weak, she often can't even pop dinner into the microwave.
The moratorium is expected to last four or five months. State officials estimate about 1,000 Alaskans will be affected.
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
And get this. The federal auditors notified Alaska officials on June 26, nearly three weeks ago. And there had already been half dozen lawsuits filed before that. But we didn't hear a peep out of Governor Sarah Palin about this scandal while she was explaining why she's bailing out or going fishing.
Nonsense. Please don't pretend to speak on behalf of 350 million people. You didn't poll every single American on what they want.
And most especially, please don't presume to speak for me.
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