This is the upshot of socialized government health care. Other people decide they get to stop your food and water if they think you're better off dead.
Full story is here, but some salient paragraphs below:
“Forecasting death is an inexact science,”they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death “without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.
As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients.
The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS.
The scheme, called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), was designed to reduce patient suffering in their final hours.
Developed by Marie Curie, the cancer charity, in a Liverpool hospice it was initially developed for cancer patients but now includes other life threatening conditions.
It was recommended as a model by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the Government’s health scrutiny body, in 2004.
It has been gradually adopted nationwide and more than 300 hospitals, 130 hospices and 560 care homes in England currently use the system. "
Get it through your heads, people. You can't cover more people, for less money, without rationing. Do NOT let the government decide who gets what.
Update:
I found the following comment to the Telegraph re: the above article. I think this person should be reported to the Arizona Authorities. It's shocking.
"Oh, come on! I worked in the ICU of an Arizona hospital years ago, and I recall one staff physician who rather routinely ordered massive doses of potassium chloride to hasten the deaths of "hopelessly terminal" patients. I supported that practice then, and I support it now, and if I'm ever a "gork" (as such patients were referred to), I hope someone's around to do the same for me. You religious zealots simply have no faith!
Kate Javanbakht
on September 03, 2009
at 06:42 PM
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Death "care" -- euthanasia, whether you want it or not. Tara, or anybody else out there know how to report this? I'd think people in Arizona would want to know the physicial and the hospital, and frankly I wouldn't want Nurse Kate (or whatever she is) anywhere near me.
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Personally I'd rather have rationing than be one of the 50 million Americans with no health insurance whatsoever. They wait indefinitely because they can't afford either insurance or the cost of drugs/treatment. Better a waiting list with an operation at the end of it than to never be treated at all.
Roydosan -- but the poor ARE covered by medicare and medicade etc. They've been feeding you a pack of lies in order to justify poor service!!
50 million is a misleading figure as it is. A good many of those are illegal aliens OR young, healthy people who chose NOT to buy the insurance through their employer. (Often for as little as 20 bucks a month.) You don't screw up 90% of the people trying to "help" the 10% who aren't satisfied.
Glad you are publicising this as our cowardly, pagan Labour government seems to care more about American opinion than that of our own citizens. If enough bloggers in USA publicise it the matter will eventually reach the Embassy and our government may be shamed into doing what is decent
I think your government is (yes sarcasm is on) is simply "ahead of the curve." Because this "compassionate death care" is ALL of what 0ero is about. You only have to look at whom he has appointed as his health "czar" [perhaps he ought to remember what happens to czars?], Ezekiel Emmanuel, his chief of staff's brother. Ezekiel is flat out no bones about it in favor of euthanasia.
Our health care system is by no means perfect, but I don't want obama and his minions anywhere near it.
Nurse Kate needs to be taught a good lesson. Unfortunately, the lesson would probably be at the expense of someone else.
By law, a hospital cannot refuse emergency care if you cannot pay.
I agree with you. No we do not want socialized medicine.
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