Republicans Start Attacking Democrats’ “Dying With Dignity” Message


The Republicans are engaging on this front. Good for them.

Congressmen Boehner and McCotter released the following statement:

Section 1233 of the House-drafted legislation encourages health care providers to provide their Medicare patients with counseling on ‘the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration’ and other end of life treatments, and may place seniors in situations where they feel pressured to sign end of life directives they would not otherwise sign. This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia if enacted into law. At a minimum this legislative language deserves a full and open public debate – the sort of debate that is impossible to have under the politically-driven deadlines Democratic leaders have arbitrarily set for enactment of a health care bill.

“This provision of the legislation is a throwback to 1977, when the old Department of Health Education and Welfare proposed federal promotion of living wills for cost-savings purposes described as ‘enormous.’ At that time, the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago decried this effort by saying: ‘The message is clear: government can save money by encouraging old people to die a little sooner than they otherwise would. Instead of being regarded with reverence, and cherished, human life is subject in this view to a utilitarian cost-benefit calculus and can be sacrificed to serve fiscal policy and the sacred imperative of trimming a budget.’

“With three states having legalized physician-assisted suicide, this provision could create a slippery slope for a more permissive environment for euthanasia, mercy-killing and physician-assisted suicide because it does not clearly exclude counseling about the supposed benefits of killing oneself.

“Health care reform that fails to protect the sanctity and dignity of all human life is not reform at all.”

That’s exactly right. The Democrats can say all they want that they just want to improve comfort and save costs at the end of life, but their actual rhetoric suggests something more. Look to the example I posted earlier about Oregon.

A man who could not afford chemotherapy was told by the government that they’d help him commit suicide instead of helping him live.

It’s not hyperbole. It is already reality.


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This is the EXACT method of attack to KILL THE BILL....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, July 24th at 2:51PM EST (link)

When the older people in our society and especially the baby boomers to whom this is really mean’t to address get up in arms they will bypass the bought and paid for AARP and get vocal themselves!

 

This is the cardcheck strategy applied to end of life issues...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Friday, July 24th at 3:04PM EST (link)

The Doctor becomes the Union Organizer…The patient is the worker…the patient is told sign this….and the patient has no second opinion, or private vote, to rely on.

At what point will they harvest and sell the good organs to a NJ Mayor who can then put it on the black market.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

obamas healthcare is a

bobojake (Diary) Friday, July 24th at 3:21PM EST (link)

Suicide Pact for Senior Citizens

And ARRP is supporting it. Maybe ARRP should wake up. I called in and cancel my subscription to ARRP during the Drug Healthcare Law when ARRP misrepresented its members interest under the Bush Plan. If Suicide Pact for Senior Citizens goes through ARRP won’t have any dues payers left and ARRP will be like obama color them gone in 2012.

My Wife and I Throw Away AARP Cards Sent to Us

Spartan4Life (Diary) Friday, July 24th at 3:31PM EST (link)

I have never liked their politics. I don’t care to get $5 off a motel room to prop up those idiots.

Send Your AARP Application Back In the Prepaid Envelope

rcov092 (Diary) Friday, July 24th at 5:07PM EST (link)

blank.

“Not One Red Dime for the NRSC or NRCC till they stop trying to elect liberals”

As I posted on another AARP piece yesterday,

eburke (Diary) Friday, July 24th at 5:11PM EST (link)

one of the highlights of my turning 50 a couple of years ago is the pleasure I know get to derive from sending not just the application solicitations but every piece of mail I get from them back in their postage paid envelopes…empty.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Unified Patriots

 
 
 
 

Latino Community

amigag Friday, July 24th at 4:04PM EST (link)

I know a lot of the Latino and Catholic populations supported B.O.

Is there any top groups that could be informed of this Section 1233? I have
relatives in Texas that would be outraged if they knew about this and I think
these groups as a whole would be too.

With this evil bill, it is now personal. A vote is not so, people thought perhaps it
was a good idea to elect him, change and all of that hype.

I plan on letting my relatives know about this, but that is just a few. We need a
big push to come from them.

What do you all think about this? Where would be a good place to start?
State Governors, Senators and Reprsentatives?

Thanks

Really?

NightTwister (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 11:10PM EST (link)

Latino and Catholic populations supported B.O., with full knowledge that he not only supported abortion, but infanticide, and suddenly they’d be outraged to find out he also supports euthanasia?

Color me skeptical…

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

 
 

When the tobacco

grinlap Friday, July 24th at 6:03PM EST (link)

companies tried to use the “they’ll die sooner and cost society less if they smoke” defense, everyone thought it was reprehensible. Now it’s PC to usher the old folks off swiftly but painlessly.

 

I would like to know how much money is being spent

The_Rebel (Diary) Friday, July 24th at 6:15PM EST (link)

to keep Ted Kennedy alive for perhaps 6-12 months longer than would be the case without the expensive medical treatment? Not that I’m denying him this care, but under Obamacare will my 84 year old mother receive this same expensive care under any similar circumstances? Until those stooges in Washington answer this question to my and the American people’s satisfaction, they know what they can do with their health bill.

Ya mean Teddy's not Dying with Dignity?

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Saturday, July 25th at 9:18PM EST (link)
 

Those That Cannot Learn From History's Mistakes..

wolfgang Saturday, July 25th at 7:20AM EST (link)

…are condemned to repeat them.
Welcome to 1935 Germany.

 

Dying with dignity? I guess Ann Coulter was right

kyle8 (Diary) Saturday, July 25th at 8:01AM EST (link)

The Democrats are a death cult.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 

Senior Navigation and Planning Act (S.1263)

abbynormal Saturday, July 25th at 7:19PM EST (link)

From Senator Warners web page: http://warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=HealthCare

“In June 2009, Senator Warner (D-VA) introduced the Senior Navigation and Planning Act of 2009, health reform legislation that will strengthen the quality and availability of counseling, support services, and care management for patients and families coping with life-limiting illnesses.

This legislation does not deny or withhold healthcare services. However, it does recognize that overall health reform should include a thoughtful process that informs patients, their families, and caregivers on how to navigate and think-through difficult decisions about when and how long to pursue treatments at the end-of-life.”

Staunton News Leader 6/17/09: “Freshman Senator Mark Warner is courageous to submit a bill that encourages doctors and hospital staff to counsel terminally ill patients about foregoing extraordinary medical care..”

If Obama doesn’t get his way in one bill, his minions will just make it happen bill by billl. We must be ever vigilant.

 

[Reforma!]

sonnyside Tuesday, July 28th at 10:03PM EST (link)

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Cleanup on Aisle 5, Please (nt)

IJB Tuesday, July 28th at 10:24PM EST (link)

Gone -nt-

Bill S (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 10:26PM EST (link)

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

And replaced. :)

Moe Lane (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 10:28PM EST (link)

aaaahhhhh, happy thoughts-nt

DONTREADONME (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 10:29PM EST (link)

Danke, x2! (nt)

IJB Tuesday, July 28th at 10:30PM EST (link)
 
 
 

Clean up, this guy used Bill Moyer and NPR as a source with spam-nt

DONTREADONME (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 10:26PM EST (link)
 

Won't be long before you'll get your chance at Carousel.

NightTwister (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 11:17PM EST (link)

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill