Incredible! But in the spendulous bill that no one read, it seems we already have a so-called "death panel"! An article in The American Thinker today tells us:
"H.R. 1 (more commonly known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, even more commonly known as the Stimulus Bill and aptly dubbed the Porkulus Bill) contains a whopping $1.1 billion to fund the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The Council is the brain child of former Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Tom Daschle. Before the Porkulus Bill passed, Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant governor of New York, wrote in detail about the Council's purpose.
"Daschle's stated purpose (and therefore President Obama's purpose) for creating the Council is to empower an unelected bureaucracy to make the hard decisions about health care rationing that elected politicians are politically unable to make. The end result is to slow costly medical advancement and consumption. Daschle argues that Americans ought to be more like Europeans who passively accept 'hopeless diagnoses.'
"McCaughey goes on to explain: Daschle says health-care reform 'will not be pain free.' Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
"Who is on the Council? One of its most prominent members is none other than Dr. Death himself Ezekiel Emanuel. Dr. Emanuel's views on care of the elderly should frighten anyone who is or ever plans on being old. He explains the logic behind his discriminatory views on elderly care as follows:
"Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years.
"On average 25-year-olds require very few medical services. If they are to get the lion's share of the treatment, then those 65 and over can expect very little care. Dr. Emanuel's views on saving money on medical care are simple: don't provide any medical care. The loosely worded provisions in H.R 1 give him and his Council increasing power to push such recommendations."
Read the entire article here.
Along those same lines, think we are still fighting a fair fight against the snitch program and other Obama tactics against our privacy and patriotic free speech rights a.k.a. right-wing terrorism? Think again. That one may be a done deal, too, according to the following article. The White House cites a "compelling need" to lift a government ban on tracking visitors to government websites that has been in effect since 2000. Tracking cookies can do more than just recall user names and passwords of visitors who return to their favorite web sites. The World Net Daily article states, "They can also track, retrieve and report selected movements someone makes on the Internet. Through the use of cookies, the federal government could have the power to create an individual profile of anyone who visits a government website – right down to a person's recent online purchases, or even race, gender and income level."
There is much evidence to indicate that the White House has already been spying, if not with cookies from its own site, then surely through its contracts with Facebook, YouTube, Google, Flickr, and others. Has anyone else been getting emails from President Obama, Michele Obama, or David Axlerod for which they never signed up? See the entire article here.
2 comments:
You may be right that we already have Death Panel. But the reason for the PUSH to get every citizen to have an Advance Directive, is to allow doctors to have power for the end of life decisions. Without an Advance Directive or Do Not Resuscitate, patients are treated as patients until death. Unknown to citizens, Advanced Directives and DNR are tricks!! They do not adhere to them if they want to control a person's death for organ harvesting or living dissection (research/education). The Revised Anatomical Gift Act 2006 has been passed in most US states in the past two years. ASK YOUR STATE LAWMAKERS ABOUT THIS NEW LAW AND HOW IT MAKES THE CARE OF "PARTS" TRUMP THE CARE OF THE PATIENT.
Chilling! I have always suspected as much. At the very least, I felt advanced directives encouraged people to make DNR requests while they were healthy and feeling that they "wouldn't want to live that way" on any type of life-support systems. The more people who sign on to DNR, the fewer getting treatment. I've never believed in advance directives. There is only one Author of life. My husband's parents were told by doctors that my husband wouldn't make it through the night on too many occasions to put the trust in doctors even at the present time. Imagine trying to make that decision years before, not knowing any circumstances. Those decisions should never be taken away from the family, who should be able to make informed decisions after consulting with their doctors.
I wonder, what happens to people who have no advanced directives? ARE they treated as patients until death? Are these the patients for which the "death panel" had to be created? Can people change an advanced directive they may have already signed? Thanks for the information. Important data to look into further!
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