“End of Life Care” and “Death Panels”

I do not like Obamacare, or its father, Romney Care. I don’t trust the government to deliver the mail on time, or protect people from terrorist attacks, nor do they do a very good job at keeping sidewalks in good condition, and the roads clear. The last place I want big daddy Gov is standing over my hospital bed.

Hotair points out the use of “end-of-life care” in a recent NYT article.

Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.

Now I’m all for alternative care, as well as terminal care, and I’m even in favor of “Doctor Assisted Suicide” euthanasia. On a personal note, my mother is a Nurse, and has seen enough people in agony as their bodies fail around them, and overall does not want to be resuscitated or kept on life support for most anything short of a full recovery.

I have also seen people squander their last good days on this Earth with chemotherapy sickness that did little but add weeks of sickness at the end of their lives.

I certainly think people should have lots of options when it comes to living their lives. I don’t like government sticking their nose in an requiring people to seek treatment they don’t want. I also don’t like the idea of government giving incentives for Doctors to push “End of Life Care”. First up, why the incentive? Would a Doctor not otherwise recommend this course of action? If So Why Not?

Also why the incentive for this? I think we all know. Dead senior citizens are cheaper than living ones, no matter how healthy they are. This is a budgetary action. Now think about this, what if a terminal patient wants to extend their life just a bit longer at great government expense? Maybe they have reasons. There is a major event they want to see, like the birth of a family member, or a big celebration. What if they have hopes to be that one-in-a-million cases where the treatment works better than ever expected.

Do you think the government will take kindly to this? Call it end-of-life care or Death Panels, in the end the government is the last thing we need looking after our health.

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0 Responses to “End of Life Care” and “Death Panels”

  1. NightPaws says:

    I’m sketchy about governmental run insurance partly for those reasons. When does the government determine too much time/money/effort/resources are spent on ONE person? Will it BE equal? What if Senator LiftimeSeatHolder develops a chronic disease? Will he receive better care and for longer than the average schmuck?

    How much care is too much? What about people with chronic illnesses, not just seniors? I am PERFECTLY aware, particularly being under 30, that my condition is going to cost hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions by the time I actually do die since it developed when I was fairly young still.

    Does this type of stuff scare me? Hell yeah!

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