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

To: i-node who wrote (8798)	8/28/2009 3:39:24 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The booklet was authored by persons who are pro-euthanasia, and I'm not sure that is the right message to be sending. I would agree that's not the right message. But I didn't see anything pro-euthanasia. Maybe we're looking at two different booklets. The link in that article was broken so I googled the name of the booklet and found this: 74.125.93.132 Do you have a link to something different? I'm a bit confused by the article. It mentioned giving the brochure to returning troops. I don't get that. Seems to me that would have been dealt with before anyone left for a combat zone, maybe sooner. Troops know that they are at risk for death and disabling injury, after all. I recall, although only vaguely, when my husband served during Viet Nam that he had had some sort of briefing and done some sort of paperwork re future care. I assume the military still does that. So it made no sense to me that congressmen would be complaining about presenting such info to troops. Seems like SOP to me. The info should be in everyone's military records so that field hospitals would have it available if needed. If I referenced the wrong document and there's actually a pro-euthanasia message in the document the troops get, then I will retract my comments. But until then, I think it's just silly to protect troops who already well know have internalized the risk of disability from that knowledge and its consequences. I think it it terribly disrespectful to our troops for those congressmen to suggest that they can't face making the same end-of-life choices that the rest of us face.