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End-of Life Decisions

Keeping End-of-Life Decisions, Our Decision

by Newt Gingrich

Emotions are high in the debate over the future of our health care, and for good reason. What we are discussing are deeply personal, often deeply emotional issues.

I think every American should have the opportunity my father-in-law had to have a conversation with their doctor about end of life care that is totally private, in which there are no standards set by the government and no fear of the bureaucracy.
We had that kind of an experience at Gunderson Lutheran Hospital in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, where my father-in-law died.
At Gunderson – without any mandates from government – 92 percent of patients have advanced directives setting out what kind of care they want at the end of life.
Patients are treated with compassion, dignity and humanity. Families are engaged. Doctors are allowed to do what they think is best for patients, without fearing that the federal government is looking over their shoulders.

 

Health Care Isn’t Politics.
It’s Personal.

End-of-life care is becoming a political football – and that’s precisely why so many Americans are fearful for the future of their health care.
Because it’s not politics. It’s personal.
And the test of any health care reform proposal is whether it gives us more power to control deeply personal decisions, or whether it takes that power away.
What follows is an article I wrote for the Los Angeles Times this weekend that explains how health care reform in Washington threatens to take us down the road to government control, and what we can do to stop it.

  Your friend,
Newt Gingrich
   Newt Gingrich

Aug 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

The Democrats Still Don’t Like HMOs

Obama, Reid take dead aim at Medicare HMOs

By Jeffrey Young

Posted: 01/14/09 07:00 PM [ET]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had no qualms expressing his low opinion of private health insurance plans in Medicare.

“Medicare Advantage is gone,” Reid said last week during an interview with The Hill.

He didn’t mean that literally, his press office later clarified. But Reid, like his fellow congressional Democrats and President-elect Obama, wants to scale back the program through which HMOs and other health plans provide benefits to more than 10 million people, or almost one-fourth of the 45 million people on Medicare.

Likewise, Obama singled out Medicare Advantage as an example of “programs that don’t work” during an appearance on ABC News’s “This Week” on Sunday.

Jul 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Americans Really Believe Taxes are Not Going Up With The Government Health Plan?? – Yeah R-R-Right!!

From Rasmussen Reports

8% Say Health Care Reform Likely to Mean Higher Taxes for the Middle Class

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of U.S. voters say it is at least somewhat likely that taxes will be raised on the middle class to cover the cost of health care reform. Fifty-six percent (56%) say it’s very likely.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 15% of voters think it’s unlikely that the cost of health care reform will require raising taxes on the middle class.

Those who earn between $20,000 and $75,000 per year believe even more strongly that health care reform will require raising taxes on the middle class.

On a related topic, voters have mixed feelings about taxing wealthier Americans to help pay for health care reform as House Democrats are now proposing. Forty-eight percent (48%) favor raising taxes on those who earn more than $250,000 per year to pay for health care reform, but 44% oppose such a move. Surveys over the years have consistently shown that when politicians talk of taxing the rich, many middle class voters assume their own taxes will go up as well.

Currently, 39% of voters expect their own taxes to increase during the Obama Administration.

A bill now being considered in the House of Representatives places a one percent (1%) surtax on individual incomes above $280,000, which rises to 1.5 percent for those making between $400,000 and $800,000 a year. Both could double by 2013 if insufficient savings are found to cover the additional spending envisioned in the health care reform plan. On incomes above $800,000, the surtax is 5.4%.

Under the plan, taxpayers will not be able to use mortgage interest or charitable contributions to reduce their surtax liability. Eighty percent (80%) of voters say wealthy Americans are at least somewhat likely to give less money to charity if their deductions are reduced, up 14 points from April.

Just 13% believe the wealthy are not likely to cut back their charitable giving.

Earlier this year, 51% of voters said Obama’s plan to raise taxes on those who earn more than $250,000 a year would be good for the economy. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagreed and said it would be bad for the economy.

But voters in general consistently favor tax cuts over increased government spending.
In a poll conducted before House Democrats unveiled their current version of a reform plan, 49% of voters opposed the health care reform plan being developed while 46% favored it.

Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans and 62% of voters not affiliated with either major party say health care reform is Very Likely that to raise middle class taxes. Only 37% of Democratic voters agree.

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of Democrats like the idea of taxing wealthier Americans to help fund health care reform. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republicans and 62% of unaffiliated voters are opposed.

Text emphasis added by Freedom Finder

Jul 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

It Doesn’t Matter What the Republicans Think, Say or Do

Hopefully, everyone knows by now there is a totally huge Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress.  The extended wing of the Democrats, the Major Media (shouldn’t really be in caps; its just for emphasis), though, as well as President Barack Obama, want you to believe the Republicans have a say in the matter.

If the Republicans agree, its bipartisan.  That’s how it can be bi-partisan.  It doesn’t matter if the votes are there either way. If the Republicans don’t agree, they’re “obstructionists”, and “we’re going to pass (whatever) bill anyway”.

Kinda makes you think the Republicans mean something doesn’t it?  Its the new Bi-Partisanship we were promised

Jul 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

We Have to Put More of Someone Else’s Money into Health Care

“We can’t continue to put more and more money into health care,” said Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who runs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Interpreted as:

So let’s put more money of the wealthy’s money into health care.  Isn’t that the way of the Socialists Liberal Democrats?  The wealthy, who fund everything in in America are expected to “GIVE” more of their money.

“We cannot go home for recess unless the House and the Senate pass bills to reform and restructure our health-care system.”

Interpreted as:

Let’s fix the best health care on the planet into something that can and will be second or third-rate at best.

The House is also proposing a mandate on Americans above a certain income level: People would be penalized as much as 2.5 percent of their income for failure to buy health insurance. Most employers would be required to insure their employees or pay a penalty equal to as much as 8 percent of their payroll.

interpreted as:

Let’s really put if to people for being successful and mandate something that may in fact be illegal to mandate!!

If you aren’t paying attention to this nonsense you will be forced to pay attention because it WILL affect you eventually.  If they can tax the upper income level for not having health insurance, how long before they tax you?

I may be wrong, but between 9 and 17 million of the “uninsured” are in this country illegally!

One of the original ideas of this legislation was to save money.  How can it save money if its going to cost more money?

 

Freedom Finder

Jul 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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