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PALIN'S OUTRAGEOUS DEMAGOGUERY: WHY NOT? EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT.
So, let me ask this. Take the "end of life counseling" to just one logical conclusion. Grammy comes in to her 3rd counseling session in her wheelchair, complaining of constant debilitating pain due to arthritis, which will never go away but simply progress to the point where she is bedridden. She is a widow who lives alone and is afraid of getting hurt or dying and no one finds her. Her doctor explains her options - nursing home or home alone or die sooner. She asks for a way to die. Nothing in HR 3200 and it's directives about the counseling offer what to do when a patient asks to die. It is not illegal for the doctor to prescribe the pills, though. Have we or have we not just legalized euthanasia the easy way?
In the same way that you would ask us (and Palin) not to project the future under Obamacare - although he didn't write HR 3200, some guys in Congress did, right;) - I would ask you to not do the same. If they're offering the counseling, who decides what they can and can't say, what they can and can't advise, what they can and can't prescribe, etc. These "Boards" and "Committees" HR 3200 creates sound a lot like a death panels to me. Someone has to set the "regulations".
Comment Posted By gopmom On 8.08.2009 @ 18:52
