The Real Death Squad from left: Miss Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter (AKA Sarah Palin), Sean Hannity, and Rush the Fat Ass Limbaugh.....
Contrary to what republicans and specifically what Miss "Dolores Umbridge" Palin has been suggesting recently, there are NO
DEATH PANELS being proposed. Whats more disturbing is the "Death Panel" talk is turning into a "don't trust your doctors" speech from little miss brainless.
The fact is what conservatives are referring to as "death panels" is as simple as what we do now in healthcare and its paid for by medicare or medicaid which are oh no, don't look now....government paid plans and guess what, the private insurance companies pay for it too. What we have now are called....HEALTHCARE PROXYS, DO NOT RESUSITATE ORDERS or DNR's, Hospice/pallative care for those who are at the end of life.
I take cases for Hospice so I must be on the so called "Death Panel". However, I can tell you I have not once seen anyone suggest that someone needs to die early just because they are on hospice. Hospice provides patients with every means of living a comfortable end of life as they can. That is what Hospice does, they insure your comfort and your families comfort during one of the most stressful times of a persons life.
Upon entrance to any nursing home/home care service one of the questions we have to ask as practitioners is whether that person has a healthcare proxy or living will. The other question we have to ask is if that person has any DNR orders. So it goes on now whether republicans know it or not.
The problem isn't with these things being in the healthcare bill, its with the ignorance and stupidity of those like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and those ignorant ones who blindly follow their mindless bantering. That is the problem with allowing those who obviously know nothing about healthcare to be the ones dictating how it should be addressed. The fact that those things are in the bill assures me that someone is somewhat familiar with end of life services and how important they are.
A lot of people have no idea what to do to make things easier when they die for them and their family. Part of that is counseling over what their options are including a living will, healthcare proxy, and hospice. Most people don't do these things until the last minute and why would they do it any sooner? No one expects to die or thinks about it until they have to, most of us are too busy living our lives to worry about it.
So, you want advice from a death panel? Continue listening to Miss Umbridge Palin and the Fat Ass Drug Addicted Limbaugh.who tell you not to trust your doctor. There is your real death panel.
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