Gads, it is getting worse. Check out this from the AP:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is encouraging people on Medicare to write living wills. Mike Leavitt told hospital administrators an increase in living wills could save the government large amounts of money, but he didn't say how. But presumably, the government would not spend money on keeping terminally-ill patients alive -- if they've filled out living wills rejecting life-prolonging medical care.
How long before we're nudged, then told, that not choosing death in a living will is "selfish." (Maybe we should rename them "dying wills.")
There's already so much pressure on old and disabled people. They should be told and told that they are a blessing, not a burden. What is wrong with Mike Leavitt?
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"The pattern is the state's hostility to the exercise of personal freedom"
Gee, I would have said the pattern is the state's hostility to life or the state's eagerness to see the innocent die.
Gads, it is getting worse. Check out this from the AP:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is encouraging people on Medicare to write living wills.
Mike Leavitt told hospital administrators an increase in living wills could save the government large amounts of money, but he didn't say how. But presumably, the government would not spend money on keeping terminally-ill patients alive -- if they've filled out living wills rejecting life-prolonging medical care.
How long before we're nudged, then told, that not choosing death in a living will is "selfish." (Maybe we should rename them "dying wills.")
There's already so much pressure on old and disabled people. They should be told and told that they are a blessing, not a burden. What is wrong with Mike Leavitt?
What, am I the only one in the world who thinks that depending on offing the old and disabled to save Medicare is horrible?
Yes, horrible even though the people signing away their right to life are probably annoying liberals...
No, you're not the only one, C.I.V. -- keep the faith.
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