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Hospital Death Panel in Texas
Extending the life of a patient when that is what he wants is a quintessential purpose of medicine. But thanks to the bioethics movement, that fundamental principle is now under tremendous threat. Texas has an odious law that permits a bioethics committee to veto patient advance directives and stated desires to live by refusing service. This is a hospital death panel....
...Realize that Dunn’s treatment isn’t to be stopped because it doesn’t work, but because it does. The doctors and bioethics committee think his quality of life not worth living, but Chris Dunn does!
Read more at: Hospital Death Panel in Texas, by Wesley J. Smith, National Review
Is the Texas Medical Futility Act a real-life "death panel"?
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It must be Obamacare’s death panels at work! Remember all the hoopla over doctors getting paid to counsel patients about end-of-life planning? Ms. Mama Grizzly, aka Sarah Palin, led the charge that Obama wanted to pull the plug on Granny to save healthcare costs — as she so nicely put it, “Death Panels.”
Well, it may have been a death panel, but it wasn’t created by Obamacare — try Texas Republicans. Willie was the victim of a little known act that former Governor George Bush signed into law in 1999 — when Rick Perry was Lt. Governor — called the Medical Futility Law. Yes, that’s right: Republicans against life, and it’s still on the books.
Our esteemed governor, who says "I always stand by the side of life," has never rescinded the law....
Is the Texas Medical Futility Act a real-life "death panel"?
I suppose in the conservative Christian world, this is just hurrying people along towards Heaven.
Extending the life of a patient when that is what he wants is a quintessential purpose of medicine. But thanks to the bioethics movement, that fundamental principle is now under tremendous threat. Texas has an odious law that permits a bioethics committee to veto patient advance directives and stated desires to live by refusing service. This is a hospital death panel....
...Realize that Dunn’s treatment isn’t to be stopped because it doesn’t work, but because it does. The doctors and bioethics committee think his quality of life not worth living, but Chris Dunn does!
Read more at: Hospital Death Panel in Texas, by Wesley J. Smith, National Review
Is the Texas Medical Futility Act a real-life "death panel"?
...
It must be Obamacare’s death panels at work! Remember all the hoopla over doctors getting paid to counsel patients about end-of-life planning? Ms. Mama Grizzly, aka Sarah Palin, led the charge that Obama wanted to pull the plug on Granny to save healthcare costs — as she so nicely put it, “Death Panels.”
Well, it may have been a death panel, but it wasn’t created by Obamacare — try Texas Republicans. Willie was the victim of a little known act that former Governor George Bush signed into law in 1999 — when Rick Perry was Lt. Governor — called the Medical Futility Law. Yes, that’s right: Republicans against life, and it’s still on the books.
Our esteemed governor, who says "I always stand by the side of life," has never rescinded the law....
Is the Texas Medical Futility Act a real-life "death panel"?
I suppose in the conservative Christian world, this is just hurrying people along towards Heaven.
