Thanx Crusty...for posting that info. Seems like alot of that stuff is long over due to be brought into the light. End stage life is difficult enough to deal with having information and choices hidden from view. This info could assist alot of folks and relatives during the end phase of life; and possiblely help to perserve estates of soon to be deceased at the behest of the medical industry...good to know your choices beforehand.
Leave it to Palin and alter-ego Beck to come up with the 'death panel' moniker for information we all should freely access when the time comes. Political motives are always centered around a conquer and divide mentality.
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What info ? A bunch of lawyer "new-speak" ? Where is the information ? They keep referring back to the original bill, none of which the Dim-ocrats who voted it in ..even read...DUH
If this idea is such a great idea, why did it's original sponsor want so much to keep it secret and all cloak& dagger stuff ? http://merriemarie.amplify.com/2010/12/27/shame-rep-earl-blumenauer-and-incentivized-death/
The idea of killing off the aged or infirm, particularly of the "non-elites", is an old liberal/progressive position...learned from their heroes such as Darwin, Blavatsky and Margaret Sanger, that such should be eliminated. Their buddies such as Marx, Engel & Stalin referred to such persons a "useless eaters".
The Democrat governor of Colorado of abou25-30 years ago, Richard Lamm suggested that older people should be willing to die and get out of the way !
BTW: Richard Lamm is about 75 now..and still kicking as far as I know !
I find the liberal/progressive position to be so hypocritical as to be laughable...were it not so sinister and Nazi-like. Here are their positions as of today:
1) Encourage the old or infirm to "end-it-all..
2) Kill half the babies either before or during birth. (no fair trial)
3) Give the most evil terrorists the benefit of a full-blown New York trial.
4) Don't even suggest that mass murderers, such as John Wayne Gacey, Ted Bundy or The Fort Hood terrorist/murderer, be put to death !
Now fellows...do those totally stupid positions even begin to pass the "smell test" ?