Many of you have gotten this email.

B-note: This is a partial quote from the email. He cites several dozen more, but these are the “horrifying, shocker” lines referred to and originally printed by the author in red.

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I URGE YOU TO READ THIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT IS THERE TO PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS TO OBJECT BECAUSE IF WE DON’T OBJECT THIS WILL BECOME THE LAW.

Subject: If you don’t want to even think about this, but surely you must oppose i…

If you have been in favor of any of the healthcare plan, you better think again. It will be tyranny for us. Let your congressman and senator know how you feel.

All of this is more than HORRIFYING, but for the biggest shocker look at page 425.

Peter Fleckstein has looked at Obama’s Healthcare Bill and if his comments are accurate this bill would be the most encompassing act of tyranny ever in the history of these United States. Here is what he says the bill says:

At the end of his comments there is a link to the actual bill itself so that you may check the accuracy of his comments.

PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation. Euthanasia and Doctor-Assisted Suicide.

Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct consult regarding living wills, and assume power of attorney of all enrollees. Mandatory!

PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death decisions to end your life.

PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program to mandatory end of life programs. The Govt will mandate how your life ends.

Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An “advance care planning consultant” will be used frequently as a patient’s health deteriorates

PG 429 Lines 10-12 “advance care consultation” may include an ORDER to initiate end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOV to terminate a life.

Pg 429 Lines 13-25 – The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life

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Oh my God!!!!!
Government mandated suicide!!!
Just like that Star Trek episode with the guy from MASH committing suicide at age 60 by law. How horrific!!!!!!

I don’t want anyone to think I’m for bill HR 3200 in any way. It’s garbage for 32,000 reasons including the euthanasia scare.

But not the way you think.

We’ve all gotten the horror email about killing old people. It says the bill mandates this outright in black and white.

The concern is real, though the bill doesn’t say that.

HR 3200 doesn’t give the government the powers of euthanasia that the emails describe.

It does guarantee the medical community, especially insurers like Blue Cross, that they can charge Uncle Sam once every 5 years for a “consultation” for every patient that qualifies for Medicare. More often than that if there’s a change in the person’s health.

These provisions are supposed to be about making sure people plan ahead for future care and have their wishes honored. The section lays out all the reasons you might need it: long-term care, life-sustaining care, decisions to be made if you can’t, and, yes, hospice.

No government agent is supposed to sit in on this consultation. You and your doctor, nurse, or – here’s the dangerous part – your proxy. Which can be your provider’s medical administrator.

According to the bill, this is a choice for the patient that the government must pay for. To insurers, doctors and health care providers, it’s a goldmine of guaranteed fees from the US coffers with no treatment or service expense. All providers will make this consultation mandatory by policy so they won’t miss out on any cash. Then, doctors will start telling all their patients of age, but not covered, that it’s mandatory but free, and everybody will get in on it.

Then, the providers and certain doctors will use the consultations as an excuse to suggest or deny treatments, minimize expenses, or, yes, convince folks to give up and let their illness win to maximize profit.

Facilities and providers under the current system can’t wait to bury patients who are terminal and no longer generating income through treatments and procedures.

They practically killed my dad with horrendous care and practices after botching his surgery. He couldn’t die soon enough. The nursing home doped him up and gave him pneumonia. Then the ER was going to deny him the antibiotics because he was going to die anyway. I almost hit the doctor. I demanded my dad get them, and he was eating a steak the next day. We set him up to do home hospice with me and my brothers. He left this world at his time, in his own home, watching his TV.

This bill will empower providers to lie about the law at will, applying it as they see fit to maximize their cash flow from the government. Every healthy person over 65 would be encouraged to test for some possible ailment at every consultation. Anyone with a problem would find themselves taking numerous tests, procedures, and drugs unrelated to the illness. God forbid you be terminally ill. They’ll send you down the hospice chute faster than you can wink. On life support? Not anymore. Cutting costs mean cutting your life.

So, yes, these fears are justified, but not because the government is going to suddenly become fascist, commie Nazis.

It’s because our medical providers will instantly abuse it completely and leave us worse off no matter what it says.

My brother pointed out to me that Nazi Germany had similar legislation, that had a distinction, read between the lines, that allowed for the elimination of “useless eaters” – euthanasia of those too old or infirm to contribute to society. Although the law didn’t say that, it could be interpreted by the Nazis intentionally to use it this way without the public’s awareness, most believing the law was fair.

This is exactly like that. The pages just say a Medicare patient can have this every 5 years or more often if their health changes.

Providers will say it’s mandatory. Even though they don’t provide that consultation at all now unless it’s demanded by the patient’s advocates and approved by the provider, however useful it might be.

A counseling session like this may have allowed me to get my dad into home hospice much earlier. Even to have planned for it when his cancer metastasized. We only got him home after 3 near-death experiences exposing horrendous negligence. And begrudgingly. They fought us over it until we exhausted them. This is with full BlueCross/BlueShield and supplemental up the wazoo. They couldn’t wait to put him in a black gurney.

Imagine what they’ll do when they can charge the government full rate, say it’s mandatory, and dictate patient care from then on.

The bill doesn’t say that, but we’re already being told it does just to hide the fact that it’s already status quo.

They want more. This is a license to print money from Medicare patients and discard them when they don’t bring a profit.

The whole thing is written like this – vague, technical, and ripe for abuse by the current system.

I hate this bill, but I also hate to see all this larceny continue unabated because of some semantic sleight of hand.

The providers need to change to accommodate the market. No government-anything past fixing Medicare for now.

This bill will make everything worse.

Even worse yet, no bill will be any good until we start using the actual language against them instead of taking interpretations as fact.

This is the info I wish was going around the internet. The bill can’t be trusted because it gives free reign to all the morons and profiteers already ruining our system for most folks.

Obama is not out to kill our elderly, he just doesn’t know the medical insurance industry already is.

I hope you’ll pass this on. I hate to see this bill go through because this “euthanasia” point is too easy to dismiss.

It’s already happening now, and it will grow unchecked if this bill is passed.

Please send the real page 425 to everyone and your congress-morons.

Now, those actual pages from the house bill, accessed via the link in the email (you actually have to start at page 424 to get the entire section):

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I simply did as the email suggested: I followed the link to verify his comments.

To make it even simpler, I chose to first investigate his “horrifying” mandates on pages 425-430.

As you’ve read, there is no way to confuse this section as “mandatory euthanasia at the government’s discretion”. It merely demands counseling and knowledge of all aspects of care and assistance available, spelling them out by application – critical care, long term care, life-sustaining, and hospice.

This kind of misquote is rampant on both sides. Read the bill yourself. Don’t take someone’s word for what’s in it. There’s surely plenty wrong and right in the same pages, and much to be discussed. This is, however, a blatant attempt to frighten people into
fearing any health care bill, outright. We aren’t living in Logan’s Run unless we allow this to continue.

But, as my brother wryly observed, “objects in mirror are closer than they appear”.

All this nonsense has to stop.

And we’re just the hairpins to do it.
 
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References:
 
Full text of HR 3200 IH on gpo.gov
Government Printing Office (GPO)
 
Related Media:
 
Star Trek: TNG episode “Half a Life” – Wikipedia entry
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President Obama has said there are 50 million Americans without health insurance.

Critics have said “show me one American without access to health care”.

I am the person Obama is talking about.

I’m a self-employed single musician.
Health insurance for me is at least $400-$700 a month, so I don’t have it.
In any case, no one will cover my 4 pre-existing ailments.

I don’t qualify for Medicare or Medicaid.
I’m not indigent, so I don’t qualify for public services either.
$50,000-$100,000 worth of out-of-pocket costs stand between me and good health.

Between the testing, surgeries, treatments and dangerous drugs the AMA tends to prescribe, I would be wiped out financially and hooked on Oxycontin by the time they fix my 2 congenital illnesses and 2 permanent injuries.

I’m not choosing not to have health care – it’s beyond my affordability without a 40% raise in income. And even then, they’d cover me, but nothing would cover the pre-existing ailments.

If I had the $500 a month to spend, I’d get it. This is not a choice for me – health insurance is out of the question and treating my illnesses doubly so.

If doctors won’t even try to make services affordable and I’m stealing from everybody else if I ask for the government’s help, where’s that leave me?

“Dying in the street”? (Over the top, yes. Ridiculous? No.)

I pay taxes, too. Why can’t I get help?

I’ve never met a doctor willing to give a discount for cash. I’ve never seen a hospital willing to cut room rates. I’ve seen doctors rack up $50,000 in tests and miss a $5 blood sugar test.

There is no competition controlling the medical industry. Insurance companies pay the rates and take it back from us through premiums and rejected or partial service payments.

I’m a lucky one. People dealing with cancer in their family can easily be $250,000 or more in debt over medical care while maintaining full coverage.

Making up numbers won’t change this and debating who’s paying for what won’t help, either.

I’m not going to pretend to peg an exact number, here. I’ll just say that I would be shocked if there were any fewer than 30 million people in my situation or worse.

A network of federally-backed hospitals offering discounted or free medical care to low-income or self-employed citizens would not kill the current system like some say. They would just lose the customers that can’t pay without having to sacrifice everything they own to afford the rates.

Oh, wait – that’s a large segment of the population, because you need to make over $100,000 a year after taxes without kids to safely handle the expense of a serious injury or illness.

What’s so un-American about having something of some sort in place?
Tax credit for doctors who discount? — Something? Anything?

Private or government based – I don’t care.

Grass roots hippy doctor movement?

Wal-mart hospitals?

Medical co-ops?

Drive-through surgeons?

McHospitals on every corner?

One such network of healthcare already exists – the Veteran’s Administration. Why not use the VA system as a base and expand it for citizens who apply for the program and meet the requirements?

Or, maybe we could figure out where the bloating is in the medical industry and control that, enabling the rest of the profession to behave more responsibly. Outrageous fees for hi-tech equipment and obscene pharmaceutical profit margins account for a great deal of the cost of medical care.

Billing a la carte for each and every service in your hospital stay certainly drives those rates up as well. Precautionary testing, unrelated to the illness or injury being treated, but run on the basis of medical family history, can add thousands of dollars in unseen costs to a patient’s bill.

When billings exceeds a patient’s insurance, the patient has to pay.
Full price. Now.

If a procedure has been performed and the insurance company says it wasn’t necessary, the patient has to pay.
Full price. Now.

If you’ve already been treated and your injury isn’t covered, you pay.
Full price. Now.

As a musician, I have always had to cut my rates when the market is down.
Fact of doing business.

But not when people’s lives depend on your services.
Then you can always charge to the hilt in spite of the economy because folks just plain have to pay it.

Maybe I just don’t want to be the guy who says – “those 50 million people can die in the street for all I care”.

National medicine or not – do we really want this to continue the way it is now?

Is any change at all out of the question, here?

I’d prefer not be one of the 50 million, but I am.

Which street should I go die on?

 

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