This is the provision that mandates "end of life counseling sessions" for anyone over 65, every five years. The counseling would encourage patients needing medical care to have a "Living Will" and "think about" Hospice care as an alternative to life saving treatments. The sessions would be held with a Government paid Physician and a Government Board counseling the patient. There would be "bonus" money paid to the Physician if the patient accepts the Hospice and the pill.
This isn't exactly a Death Panel but it's pretty damn close and there is a bigger issue at stake. The Government can change the rules in the middle of the game by requiring that certain patients must have yearly counseling. More Pressure to give into the Government's wishes. More bonuses for the Doctors. Given what I know of human nature, the patient would opt to die rather than have to spend their last few years on this planet arguing with the Federal Government.
Why does this concern me. Other than Glenn Beck's show have you ever heard of Germany's ActionT4 Project? It was Germany's answer to the health care problem that existed in Germany in the 1930's. It was a euthanasia program that started in 1939 and went on halfway through 1941. 70,273 people were exterminated by physicians acting on Hitler's secret memo of September 1, 1939 and they weren't Jews.
The Euthanasia Decree, written by Adolf Hitler in September 1939, reads as follows:
Reich Leader Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are charged with the responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians, to be designated by name, to the end that patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment [menschlichem Ermessen] of their state of health, can be granted a mercy death [Gnadentod].
This happened because Germany had such a profound financial crisis that rationing health care and natural resources became acceptable by it's people. They [the German Government] had printed money to sustain their currency all through the 1930's because of the Stock Market crash of 1929. Printing money, buying their own debt, devaluing their money led to a society that devalued not just money, but their people. Does this sound familiar?
The danger for us today is that circumstances that created Hitler's Germany in the 1930's exists today in America. We are spending money at an alarming rate and now the Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Giethner, is asking Congress to raise the debt ceiling to frightening heights. We are printing money we don't have to pay debt's we didn't have the money to pay for in the first place. This isn't going to end well.
The "innocent" language being written into the health care legislation pending in the House is dangerous. When you give any well meaning Government the power over the life or death of it's people you are setting up a blue print for disaster. Does President Obama want to kill me or my fellow Seniors? No.
So why do I believe that Government controlled health care is dangerous for America. One person, the President, can't make that giant leap to rationing health care....but a group of people with radical ideas about population control and rationing resources can influence policy in a political environment such as we have now in America.
President Obama and his health advisers, individually, are not necessarily evil people. But when you combine ideas of well meaning men and women, that are far outside the normal thought of ordinary Americans, you are creating a scenario for great social danger.
Rahm Emanuel's brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is on the "Health Care Panel". To say he holds extreme views is an understatement. He has written on such issues as: Assisted Suicide. The promise of a good death, Death with Dignity, Dogma Disputed:
For many people, death in modern advanced societies is inherently undignified. Terminally ill patients are connected to tubes and machines; they experience pain, shortness of breath, and other excruciating symptoms; they are unable to get out of bed, feed themselves, and even go to the bathroom alone; they are cared for in impersonal institutions. In such circumstances, there is no way to maintain dignity in the dying process.1–3 This loss of dignity is a major concern of dying patients and constitutes one of the main motivations behind efforts to improve palliative care and promote the goal of “a good death”.
These are pretty radical ideas. He also believes in a theory called the "Complete Lives System". It advocates for the culling of society by social worth. The chart below gives you a general ideal of the value placed on individuals in Obama's brave new world.
The term “group polarization” refers to something very simple: After deliberating with one another, people are likely to move toward a more extreme point in the direction to which they were previously inclined, as indicated by the median of their pre-deliberation judgements. With respect to the Internet, the implication is that groups of people, especially if they are like-minded, will end up thinking the same thing that they thought before — but in more extreme form.http://www.littlemag.com/mar-apr01/cass6.html
John Holdren is an Al Gore doomsday environmentalist. He supports limits on energy usage and health care. These are the people that surround Obama. None of them are evil people but they all are people with radical ideas. Together they are far more dangerous than they are individually.
Truman Capote wrote "In Cold Blood" about two men who went on a killing spree in Kansas in the late 1950's. He states that each man, individually probably wouldn't have killed anyone but when the were brought together they formed the complete murderer.
This is the problem with Obama, his Advisers and Czars. They are all ideologically bent in the same direction on the environment, energy and health care. Each one may not be a Socialist in the true sense of the word but together they form a dangerous mindset much like existed in Germany during the early 1930's. They are proposing programs that will take freedom of movement, free speech, and freedom to choose our own health care out of the hands of the people and into the huge bureaucracy that they are creating.
A pet dog may be docile and loving by itself but when put in a group of dogs that are allowed to run free they revert to the pack mentality. Barak Obama and his henchmen have been unleashed by the last election and they are a pack of dogs waiting to devour every bit of freedom the Americans people have. We live in very dangerous times and history does repeat itself.
We are being bankrupted by the policies of this Administration. When there is no money for even essentials there will be a cry for the Government to do somethings. And the Government will, but it will lead us to a totalitarian Society. We must stand up to these people before we find our toddlers and Senior Citizens being led to the Death Panels. Sounds like fiction. Unfortunately, it has happened before and it could be happening again.
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