Everywhere there are posts from Sarah Palin. Warning America of potential losses of our constitutional rights. Warnings of economic down turns, Job losses. Why is she the only on out there trying to protect us?
Sarah Palin is a MORON who cost America BILLIONS of dollars that could have been saved in Medicare costs...her ignorant twisting of advanced directives in 'death panels' is CRIMINAL.
Palin was right about Death Panels and was the first to signal the flaws in Obamacare sending the White House into panic mode. Palin is what America needs as president. She will restore America to its founding principles and exceptionalism.
Palin was NOT right about death panels. As a matter of FACT, advanced directives are the very essence of what conservatives SAY they stand for: rights of the individual, personal responsibility, and personal dignity.
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels' | PolitiFact
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, hereÂ’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 yearÂ’s debate on health-care reform legislation that Democrats decided to pull that provision from the bill.
Our view: Promoting advanced directives puts decisions in proper hands
Sarah Palin is a MORON who cost America BILLIONS of dollars that could have been saved in Medicare costs...her ignorant twisting of advanced directives in 'death panels' is CRIMINAL.
Why 5% of Patients Create 50% of Health Care Costs
30% of all Medicare expenditures are attributed to the 5% of beneficiaries that die each year, with 1/3 of that cost occurring in the last month of life.
It seems that no matter how much money you use during that last year/month, if the person is sick enough, the effort makes things worse. A lot of the money being spent is not only not helping, it is making that patient endure more bad experiences on a daily basis. The patientÂ’s quality of life is being sacrificed by increasing the cost of death.
First, there is a certain amount of political hysteria associated with things like “death panels” and
deliberate attempts to scare people about any change in health care.
Why 5% of Patients Create 50% of Health Care Costs - Forbes
Both want to distract us from the important things like education, science, r@d, and infrastructure.
