Senior Death Warrants….  Is there anything to this, or it it just hooey?
Posted: 07 September 2010 10:19 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Someone sent me an e-mail, as follows:

Senior Death Warrants ...

Rec’d this from a good friend of ours in Corpus who was diagnosed with cancer last year. See what his doctor is saying......

Wednesday, I was at the doctor whom I have been going to since we moved down here (he is the one who discovered my cancer). I have to get a very expensive shot every 3 months ($3000) that is designed to keep the PSA down and help to prevent a recurrence of the cancer.
Has some uncomfortable side effects, and I was questioning the need to continue with it, which he assured me was necessary. He then asked how old I was, and when I replied 70, he said that if this legislation goes through as intended by the powers that be, that I probably would not be able to get it next year, as that would be money better spent on someone else with greater longevity. I would be referred to someone to “counsel” me.
I asked him why the AMA had recently endorsed the plan. He replied that only about 15% of the nation’s doctors were members of AMA, and most of them were not really on the front lines of doctor hood but in some other areas of medicine. He said he was a member, but would not be after this membership year.
This man got part of his training in London , and practiced in Canada for 16 years before coming to the US , and he has no use for socialized medicine, regardless of how you wrap it, or what kind of bow to put on it. He said that we have a shortfall of around 400,000 doctors at the present time, and many of today’s doctors are of the baby boomer generation who are nearing retirement and/or will decide to hang it up rather than deal with the results this is sure to bring.
Scary, my friends. The picture for our age group is not pretty in Obama land.
SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:
In England no one over 59 can receive heart repairs or
stents or bypass because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed.
Obama wants to have a healthcare system just like Canada ‘s and England ‘s. I got this today and am sending it on.. If Obama’s plans in other areas don’t scare you, this should. Please do not let Obama sign senior death warrants.  Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting close or knows somebody that is.
Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the “stimulus” bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following statement:
Bloomberg: Daschle says “health-care reform will not be pain free.  Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.”
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan which they are guaranteed for the remainder of their lives. Nor are they subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in less than a year. And we have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their lives miserable.Let’s do this!
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Posted: 07 September 2010 10:52 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Hardy, the whole “death panel” thing was a complete distortion.

Read about palliative care here and here.

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Posted: 07 September 2010 12:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Trollfessor - 07 September 2010 10:52 AM

Hardy, the whole “death panel” thing was a complete distortion.

Read about palliative care here and here.

Not exactly.... some government panel will decide what life saving drugs and procedures will be paid for and allowed.

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Posted: 07 September 2010 12:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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What, you mean like how insurance companies have been doing for years?  I’m shocked.

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Posted: 07 September 2010 12:49 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Trollfessor - 07 September 2010 12:43 PM

What, you mean like how insurance companies have been doing for years?  I’m shocked.

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Yet you continue to try and deny they do.

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Posted: 07 September 2010 12:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Trollfessor - 07 September 2010 12:43 PM

What, you mean like how insurance companies have been doing for years?  I’m shocked.

Except it will be some unaccountable government bureaucrat and there will be no one to turn to for an appeal.

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Posted: 07 September 2010 01:04 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Posted: 07 September 2010 01:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Even Troll admits someone will make these decisions and since the health care decisions will be made by the Feds..... Who but a Death Panel....

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Posted: 07 September 2010 01:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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He would prefer to call it a “life panel”..

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Posted: 07 September 2010 02:06 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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It has been happening here for years.

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Posted: 07 September 2010 04:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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Hardy, I heard the first order of business for the panel is going to be to round up all the senile old nut jobs.....

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Posted: 07 September 2010 09:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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Coach Blanco - 07 September 2010 04:30 PM

Hardy, I heard the first order of business for the panel is going to be to round up all the senile old nut jobs.....

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Posted: 10 September 2010 12:31 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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registeredzz - 07 September 2010 09:36 PM

Coach Blanco - 07 September 2010 04:30 PM
Hardy, I heard the first order of business for the panel is going to be to round up all the senile old nut jobs.....

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Posted: 10 September 2010 12:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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Coach Blanco - 07 September 2010 04:30 PM

Hardy, I heard the first order of business for the panel is going to be to round up all the senile old nut jobs.....

Saved for evidence.

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