Any Coverage of Chimpy’s “Death Panels”?
When you go to your town hall meeting or health care rally, ask the deathers wrapped in the flags and the swastikas if they ever came to Texas to protest W’s death panels here?
For those who don’t like Wikipedia as a source (bravo, actually), here is the relevant section of the Texas Health and Safety Code that essentially allows a medical facility to decide whether it wants to continue giving life-sustaining treatment, even against the wishes of the patient or family.
Focus on Section 166.046, Subsection E, which allows:
If an attending physician refuses to honor a patient’s advance directive or a health care or treatment decision made by or on behalf of a patient, the physician’s refusal shall be reviewed by an ethics or medical committee. The attending physician may not be a member of that committee. The patient shall be given life-sustaining treatment during the review.
So if a patient or his/her family don’t agree with the physician, it goes before a board to decide the patient’s fate. But wait, there’s more:
If the attending physician, the patient, or the person responsible for the health care decisions of the individual does not agree with the decision reached during the review process under Subsection (b), the physician shall make a reasonable effort to transfer the patient to a physician who is willing to comply with the directive. If the patient is a patient in a health care facility, the facility’s personnel shall assist the physician in arranging the patient’s transfer…
So what happens if these Texas death panels end up winning – against the wishes of the family?
A person does not commit an offense under Section 22.08, Penal Code, by withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from a qualified patient in accordance with this subchapter.
Immunity from civil or criminal prosecution.
via clammyc at Kos
Did Sarah Palin care at all for the fate of Sun Hudson, a desperately ill and poor (but non-white) baby here in Texas? He was killed under the “Texas Futile Care Law,” which sounds a whole lot worse than a proposal for medicare recipients to be able to discuss advanced directives.
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Pro-life my granny’s big toe!
Don’t pull the plug grandma!
i am telling you — dont trust anyone over 30
I prefer the British CANCELLED…I like that extra L…
And I would say don’t trust anyone UNDER 30 these days…they’re all misinformed and underinformed and incurious…those of us who lived through the betrayal of Viet Nam and thought it would never happen again were sadly disappointed…but at least we can see what a travesty is happening again in our lifetimes…
We need to get out of both Iraq and Afghanistan right now…nothing else makes any sense…our young men are still dying and being crippled over there and the people doj’t want our forces there, and it just has TO STOP!!!!
I got used to senators and reps and prssidents being on the take and watching out for their own asses first since I starting paying attentio around the time I turned 17. But to watch these sub human pieces of shit base their decision on who gets to live and die on the basis of who’s waving the biggest check in their face makes me wish for one nasty revolution complete with suits swinging from light poles in D.C.
I hate to keep reminding people of this, but… the USPS (in the graphic) is not part of the federal government and has not been part of the federal government since sometime during the Nixon administration. It is a an “independent agency” which is essentially a monopoly that is regulated by the government, but it is not part of it. They determine all their own rules, rates, budgets, etc., — Congress has absolutely no authority over it whatsoever.
And it is fantastically successful.
As for the rest, well, nothing surprises me any more. I’m shocked that this revelation of the Texas healthcare system (and I assume that it came about during Chimpy’s reign of terror, er, Governorship) did not come out during the Terri Schiavo hostage crisis.
Regards,
Tengrain
And while they distract us and try to divide us further (the masters with the money, that is), they loot the treasury and hide their money off shore and laugh as they rub examples of their ill gotten gains over their flabby nipples. Eat the rich….they are, after all, well-marbled.
I read most of this post and about three words of each comment so far, and feel I’m well informed enough to say- George W. Bush something something something, Obama’s Nazi death panels, Nazi socialism, Nazi black racists, Obama, Tree of liberty needs fertilizer, prayer in hospitals, end times, Predatory teachers, tree with ACORNS needs watering, bluster, anger, Tourette like outburst, fume, grumble, sputter, hack, wheeze, from my cold lifeless fingers, Republicans don’t kill grannies Democrats with death panels kill grannies, and geez, (wink,wink, point wink wink point) don’t you know I read just about all of them in front of me so STOP LYING.
Truth is, Grandma didn’t really mind being canceled. It was the way they were going to do it: Put her in a wheelchair and push her down a flight of stairs.