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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6379)	3/14/2009 1:07:41 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

It's called hospice. I'm surprised your mother wasn't in hospice care rather than assisted living before the incident occurred. Well, hospice wouldn't have mattered in her instance. She didn't know she was dying, anyway -- she had discontinued cancer treatment 2 yrs earlier when her cancer returned rather than to undergo radiation therapy (she told her oncologist, "You're not putting ME in that damned oven!"). But the point is, there was no reason for her to be refused admission other than the doc believed he couldn't "help" her. Obviously, her own doc saw it differently -- while she was clearly dying, there was no reason NOT to allow her to die in relative comfort. You know, my real problem is that after you make changes if you make a mistake there is no fixing it. For example, the Ds proclaim Part D to be a big mistake, and they could undo it today if they wanted to. Yet, they don't. The reason, of course, is that it is politically impossible to undo it or even to majorly "re-do" it.