Why is it illegal for a Doctor to give me a lethal dose of drugs when it is evident that I will not recover or will spend my last days in pain?

Stop arguing about this specifics and this particularly issue, and get to the point.

The point is, this is a lesson on life and death for humankind, and it is time we evolve and step up to the plate. What would Carl Sagan, MLK, or Gandhi say? Or rather, what wouldn’t they talk about.

My point is made

We were built as a Republic with Rule by Law, not to have majority groups(democracy) or plutocratic business elites tell us what to do.

Especially when it comes to end of life plans.

I don’t agree with playing God and extending people’s lives who are braindead or in deep suffering who should have allowed nature to take course long ago, unless they are physically there to tell us they want to go on.

To have a binding contract that extends life past the point where the individual can cancel the contract is simply illogical and irrational.

Euthanasia is a sick and incorrect term for saying “This person is by all means dead, and we should allow the natural order of things to resume as opposed to hooking them to machines to potentially live out a nightmare in their mind for the remaining duration of existence in their Human Shell”.

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with that statement.

As society “progresses”, find our population fixating on new issues that completely seem to ignore the natural cycles of life and death.

ANNUAL COMPENSATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY EXECUTIVES (2006 and 2007 figures):

• Ronald A. Williams, Chair/ CEO, Aetna Inc., $23,045,834

• H. Edward Hanway, Chair/ CEO, Cigna Corp, $30.16 million

• David B. Snow, Jr, Chair/ CEO, Medco Health, $21.76 million

• Michael B. MCallister, CEO, Humana Inc, $20.06 million

• Stephen J. Hemsley, CEO, UnitedHealth Group, $13,164,529

• Angela F. Braly, President/ CEO, Wellpoint, $9,094,771

• Dale B. Wolf, CEO, Coventry Health Care, $20.86 million

• Jay M. Gellert, President/ CEO, Health Net, $16.65 million

• William C. Van Faasen, Chairman, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, $3 million plus $16.4 million in retirement benefits

• Charlie Baker, President/ CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, $1.5 million

• James Roosevelt, Jr., CEO, Tufts Associated Health Plans, $1.3 million

• Cleve L. Killingsworth, President/CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, $3.6 million

• Raymond McCaskey, CEO, Health Care Service Corp (Blue Cross Blue Shield), $10.3 million

• Daniel P. McCartney, CEO, Healthcare Services Group, Inc, $ 1,061,513

• Daniel Loepp, CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, $1,657,555

• Todd S. Farha, CEO, WellCare Health Plans, $5,270,825

• Michael F. Neidorff, CEO, Centene Corp, $8,750,751

• Daniel Loepp, CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, $1,657,555

• Todd S. Farha, CEO, WellCare Health Plans, $5,270,825

• Michael F. Neidorff, CEO, Centene Corp, $8,750,751

August 16th, 2009
8:18 am

Mary not to be argumentative but HR 3200 Sec. 1233 says the following:

“Advance Care Planning Consultation”
‘‘(hhh)(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the
term ‘advance care planning consultation’ means a con
sultation between the individual and a practitioner de
scribed in paragraph (2) regarding advance care planning,
if, subject to paragraph (3), the individual involved has

not had such a consultation within the last 5 years. Such
consultation “shall” include the following:

SHALL is a long ways from the choice of CAN.

With all due respect when a bill uses the word shall there is no option. That is a mandate cast in legal stone.

To me this matters only because of the mandate, as I’ve said previously I oppose any more government ran healthcare programs period.

You could not be more right and wrong at the same time. The key is that you chose to designate your brother to make those difficult decisions about your life, not the government. Therein lies the key difference! Don’t try to portray this as anything it is not.

Regards,

Charles

Can it be that the generational government dependent leeches do not attend because it would be counter to their entitlement way of thinking (giving them credit for thinking). They have more important things to do — like get another cell, plasma, or Escalade; or perhaps pop out another child by yet another different man…