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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (17366)	8/14/2009 10:06:01 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Re: "There's nothing wrong with end of life counseling...." I agree. But DOCTORS were unlikely to spend much time in talking with their elderly patients about this because there was NO WAY (under current medicare law, and many private insurance plans as well) for them to get PAID for their time. That is all the proposed provision did --- tell the Doctors that they could GET PAID (up to once each five year period per elderly patient) for taking the time to discuss such matters with the patient. (It was a 'Doctor pay issue'.) Re: "if nothing else can be done and the person wants it" I don't know what you mean by 'if nothing else can be done', or what that has to do with Living Wills, but (under the proposed provisions) all such Doctor/patient discussions about end-of-life care would only be at the PATIENT'S REQUEST anyway.... Only difference from the current status quo is that Doctors would be able to get reimbursed by the insurance plans for taking the time to discuss such matters with their patients.... Re: "government sanctioned mass murder..." Now that is just pure fruit-loopy IMAGINATION. "Mass Murder" has clearly not been sanctioned. <GGG>