What Meister posted is what REPUBLICANS said, not Pelosi, Obama or any Democrat. It was Dave Camp (R-MI). He is among the very same group of traitors who
"made a strategic decision: we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo". NOW, you want me to take their word as truth Immie?
These are the same traitors who forced Democrats to remove a provision that could save billions of dollars in Medicare spending. They twisted 'advanced directives', a compassionate, family-friendly measure into 'death panels'. About 30% of Medicare spending goes toward the last year of a person's life. That is because too often the elderly patient is no longer cognizant and able to make personal decisions. Relatives make decisions to extend their loved one's lives where the patient would not. Advance directives allows the person to decide what they want at the end of their life.
Advanced directives: puts decisions in proper hands
It’s hard to imagine how a compassionate, family-friendly measure — a measure that ultimately respects individual rights — could be twisted so grossly into the erroneous phrase “death panels.”
But, prepare yourself for more lies and more nonsense, because President Barack Obama has decided to do the right thing — and his critics already have resorted to fear-mongering and name-calling.
The concept of advanced directives was pioneered in La Crosse, thanks to our two first-class health care institutions.
It’s a simple concept: An individual, with the help of family, should have the ultimate say in the type of end-of-life care the individual receives. The best way to do that is through a careful consultation, with family and physician, before there is a health crisis — while the individual is still capable of having a rational voice in the decision.
Too often, those decisions are made when it’s too late for the individual to make the decisions. Instead, grieving family members are left to make the decision — and at times it’s nothing more than a guess.
Would the individual want extraordinary measures taken when the end is near? Why wouldn’t we trust the individual — in advance and when thinking clearly — to make that decision?
For those who crusade for the rights of the individual, here’s the question: Why are you so opposed to the individual being able to set down on paper, with help from family and physician, the standards and wishes for end-of-life care?
The issue of death panels became so hot during this year’s debate on health-care reform legislation that Democrats decided to pull that provision from the bill.
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