My son’s father-in-law just passed on after spending a lot of time unconscious on a respirator. He left no medical power of attorney and a will dated 1978. He coulda used some end-of -life counseling. Of course the anti health care reform people seem to think we should get our end-of-life counseling from a private, for-profit insurance company via a denial of services form letter .
I thought this end-of-life counseling issue had been discussed and debunked so much that even Lisa Benson could understand it.
She’s right! It’s time to take a good look at the economy again…we’ve just handed $700B to those who don’t need it–we need to revisit that to bring the economy back to good health
So don’t knock Lisa for being confused about that “debunking”, ee….everything Lefties say is confusing, because it always ends up being exposed as a prevarication.
Yep, when Obama caved so quickly on tax cuts for the wealthy he condemned our economy to slow growth, if any. bleeep him for giving in to the right wingnuts!
In the September poll, 30 percent of Americans 65 and older said the new health-care law allowed a government panel to make decisions about end-of-life care for people on Medicare.
The law has no such provision.
The new rule says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning” to discuss end-of-life treatment as part of the annual visit.
Under the rule, doctors can provide information to patients on how to prepare an “advance directive,” stating how aggressively they wish to be treated if they are so sick that they cannot make health-care decisions for themselves.
”Early advance care planning is important because a person’s ability to make decisions may diminish over time, and he or she may suddenly lose the capability to participate in health care decisions,” the lawmakers have said.
In a recent study of 3,700 people near the end of life, Dr. Maria J. Silveira of the University of Michigan found that many had “treatable, life-threatening conditions” but lacked decision-making capacity in their final days.
With the new Medicare coverage, doctors can learn a patient’s wishes before a crisis occurs.
Lisa uses facts about the Obama-Medicare black ops to add a paid service that Congress stripped from the original Obamacare bill….end-of-life “counseling” intended to RATION SERVICES and RATION MEDICARE SPENDING….with government “panels” deciding who gets care and who is refused. Patients, their families and personal doctors, will lose the power to make decisions in private….away from the bureaucrats who plan to decide for each citizen whether to treat patients to save life or to withhold treatments to shorten lives.
^ not one iota of truth in what you posted. Do you even care what is true, what is factual and what isn’t? Is being “right” thinking so important to you that distortion and misinformation is to be glorified?
another article reporting the truth about the Obama administration’s end run around Congress to install Big Brother Fed Gov deciding end-of-life “care”……with warnings also in this editorial at the url above.
this is the bureaucracy exercising powers they do not have authorization by Congressional laws to do! and this is the plan for the Obama administration to do what they please even after Congress either votes it down or strips it from bills that do pass. Everything on Obama’s agenda can (they think) be done by agency “regulation” or by Executive Orders from the Oval Office!
You know disgusting there are things called lies, dam lies, and statistics. Yours is in the middle since you keep posting opinions and glorifying them as journalism. I agree with BCS.
Jeezuzkrystifyoureadthisshityouneedadeathpanel ! This cartoonist is capable of wiping her nose and bottom with the same hand at the same time !
Maaaavelous !
disgustedtaxpayer sent us a link, 3 days ago
http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=281948
Their link is to a specially formated version of the page meant for printing without all the adverts and spam links to other articles at “the Orange County Register” which is what it says at the top of the page in this form. However, if you click the “return to article” link at the top to see more about The Orange County Register, you will see that this “article” is not from the news section, but rather from the OPINION section, and as such is the OPINION of where we are going from the point of view of the Author(s) who are uncredited, but obviously the editor(s) of the OCR. Now Editors and owners of publications NEVER have biased opinions and NEVER put into print things in opinion statements that are not pure facts. If you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in for a very low price…
myming over 13 years ago
we need counseling to die ? put the prez in that chair and watch him do a 180…
Wildcard24365 over 13 years ago
Still going strong with the “death panels,” eh, Lisa?
eepatte over 13 years ago
My son’s father-in-law just passed on after spending a lot of time unconscious on a respirator. He left no medical power of attorney and a will dated 1978. He coulda used some end-of -life counseling. Of course the anti health care reform people seem to think we should get our end-of-life counseling from a private, for-profit insurance company via a denial of services form letter .
I thought this end-of-life counseling issue had been discussed and debunked so much that even Lisa Benson could understand it.
Justice22 over 13 years ago
Ms. Benson is saying that Obama is dumping the economy.
What a stupid statement!
Jam_t78 over 13 years ago
She’s right! It’s time to take a good look at the economy again…we’ve just handed $700B to those who don’t need it–we need to revisit that to bring the economy back to good health
HabaneroBuck over 13 years ago
To those who don’t know, this is the reference:
http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20101226/NEWS14/12250348/-1/RSS
So don’t knock Lisa for being confused about that “debunking”, ee….everything Lefties say is confusing, because it always ends up being exposed as a prevarication.
pirate227 over 13 years ago
…until the GOP gets back in power.
Dtroutma over 13 years ago
She’s just aware that Boehner, if granted real power, will pull the plug on the economy that Reagan/Bush policies put on life support.
believecommonsense over 13 years ago
Obama’s trying to dump the economy? I guess she means all those tax cuts for the top two percent are silent killers.
WarBush over 13 years ago
^They’re silent killers alright…mostly to the guys with small wallets and who do all the work.
leorising over 13 years ago
Yep, when Obama caved so quickly on tax cuts for the wealthy he condemned our economy to slow growth, if any. bleeep him for giving in to the right wingnuts!
jamescag over 13 years ago
He shouldn’t dump the economy .. they should dump Obama … (wrong one in the wheelchair!!!)
charliekane over 13 years ago
The cartoonist is an idiot.
HB’s article confirms it.
A couple of quotes:
In the September poll, 30 percent of Americans 65 and older said the new health-care law allowed a government panel to make decisions about end-of-life care for people on Medicare.
The law has no such provision.
The new rule says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning” to discuss end-of-life treatment as part of the annual visit.
Under the rule, doctors can provide information to patients on how to prepare an “advance directive,” stating how aggressively they wish to be treated if they are so sick that they cannot make health-care decisions for themselves.
”Early advance care planning is important because a person’s ability to make decisions may diminish over time, and he or she may suddenly lose the capability to participate in health care decisions,” the lawmakers have said.
In a recent study of 3,700 people near the end of life, Dr. Maria J. Silveira of the University of Michigan found that many had “treatable, life-threatening conditions” but lacked decision-making capacity in their final days.
With the new Medicare coverage, doctors can learn a patient’s wishes before a crisis occurs.
Heinous, absolutely heinous.
disgustedtaxpayer over 13 years ago
Lisa uses facts about the Obama-Medicare black ops to add a paid service that Congress stripped from the original Obamacare bill….end-of-life “counseling” intended to RATION SERVICES and RATION MEDICARE SPENDING….with government “panels” deciding who gets care and who is refused. Patients, their families and personal doctors, will lose the power to make decisions in private….away from the bureaucrats who plan to decide for each citizen whether to treat patients to save life or to withhold treatments to shorten lives.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203731004576045702803914780.html?mod=WSJOpinionLEADTop
believecommonsense over 13 years ago
^ not one iota of truth in what you posted. Do you even care what is true, what is factual and what isn’t? Is being “right” thinking so important to you that distortion and misinformation is to be glorified?
disgustedtaxpayer over 13 years ago
http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=281948
another article reporting the truth about the Obama administration’s end run around Congress to install Big Brother Fed Gov deciding end-of-life “care”……with warnings also in this editorial at the url above.
this is the bureaucracy exercising powers they do not have authorization by Congressional laws to do! and this is the plan for the Obama administration to do what they please even after Congress either votes it down or strips it from bills that do pass. Everything on Obama’s agenda can (they think) be done by agency “regulation” or by Executive Orders from the Oval Office!
can you spell “dict-a-tor”?
WarBush over 13 years ago
You know disgusting there are things called lies, dam lies, and statistics. Yours is in the middle since you keep posting opinions and glorifying them as journalism. I agree with BCS.
fallacyside over 13 years ago
The Brilliant Law Professor will save the day!
donschneider44 over 13 years ago
Jeezuzkrystifyoureadthisshityouneedadeathpanel ! This cartoonist is capable of wiping her nose and bottom with the same hand at the same time ! Maaaavelous !
GESWho over 13 years ago
disgustedtaxpayer sent us a link, 3 days ago http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=281948
Their link is to a specially formated version of the page meant for printing without all the adverts and spam links to other articles at “the Orange County Register” which is what it says at the top of the page in this form. However, if you click the “return to article” link at the top to see more about The Orange County Register, you will see that this “article” is not from the news section, but rather from the OPINION section, and as such is the OPINION of where we are going from the point of view of the Author(s) who are uncredited, but obviously the editor(s) of the OCR. Now Editors and owners of publications NEVER have biased opinions and NEVER put into print things in opinion statements that are not pure facts. If you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in for a very low price…
Dtroutma over 13 years ago
The OCR is OCD, so…