Elders: Speak Out on Health Care -- Before it's too late

Hi, blog friends,

It's been a while since I've posted here. Perhaps the political news coming out of DC has just been too discouraging. We're being steamrollered by the Obama administration and their willing allies in the Congress and the media. The opposition in Congress, with a few exceptions, has been all too much a loyal and compliant opposition.  What's a concerned citizen to do? Obviously sit back and take it really isn't an answer no matter how futile our grassroots efforts may seem to be. So -- time to get back into the action writing here as S. Lane.

Sue "Kit" Whalen

Oh good grief!!!! just isn't strong enough to express what I think of this health care plan. I knew part of it involved cutting back services to the elder citizens and to those with chronic conditions (however treatable these may be). I didn't fully realize
how totally cold and, yes, cruel it's supporters were openly being.

This is, quite simply, unacceptable and doctors who are supporting it are violating the letter and spirit of the basic principle "first do no harm."

I'm not opposed to a doctor or health care provider informing any person of his or her
options near the end of life or when facing potentially terminal illness -- IF the patient asks for options. I support a patient's right to choose regarding life support and extraordinary measures. I am adamantly opposed to making such counseling mandatory for everyone, regardless the state of their health, based simply on age. I am also opposed to denying care, even care the patient can and is willing to pay for, simply because of calendar years or a pre-existing condition. We have, at least currently, more control and choice than this health care bill would allow when making decisions regarding veterinary care for our pets.

Where in Hades has the "right to choose" gone if rules such as these are imposed on our health care decisions? Down the drain, I'm thinking.
S. Lane


Be sure to listen to the Fred Thompson interviews at the bottom of the e-mail. This is unbelievable.

Page 425 of Health Care Bill - Listen to this interview Fred Thompson's Radio Show interviewing Betsy McCaughey (pronounced Mc Coy). Or look it up on www.fredthompsonshow.com, under interviews.

On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social Security, (will include all Senior Citizens and SSI people) will go to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from ways to end your suffering (and your life). Health care will be denied based on age. 500 Billion will be cut from Seniors healthcare. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first. Paying for your own care will not be an option.

Now, CALL YOUR PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON!!! Tell them to read page 425 if they don't read anything else. Surely some of them have parents.

"ON PAGE 425 OF OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE BILL, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes...They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!"

Fred Thompson: Interview

(BE SURE TO CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINE!)