Not to be outdone by Oregon, California not only has physician assisted suicide they now have nurse-assisted suicide and apparently these physician assistants and nurses without sufficient diagnoses training can decide when you are terminal and pressure depressed people to be drugged into unconsciousness where they will be denied basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water and die.

Just when you think California can not get any more demented they always prove you wrong. This is just another small step in the elitist world socialist fascist program to eliminate the useless eaters. The bottom-line is always the reason for these things. The California government does not want to pay for their medical care. When you get state controlled socialized medicine, bureaucratic aids will be deciding who lives and who dies just like in Great Great Britain today. This is just another move toward that end.

California approves nurse-assisted suicide

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially approved an assisted suicide measure allowing nurses to sedate, dehydrate and starve depressed or confused individuals they consider to be “terminally ill.”

“AB 2747 pushes suicide through the back door at the hands of non-physicians taking advantage of depressed patients,” he said in a statement. “AB 2747 cheapens the value of human life by endorsing suicide as an option.”

The measure allows physician assistants and nurses to decide whether a person is “terminally ill” and deprive them of basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water.

“Depressed patients who succumb to this pressure will be drugged unconscious and die from dehydration, usually within five to 10 days,” Thomasson said. “Nothing in the bill prohibits this horror.”

Thomasson said Berg “deceptively changed” the bill to appear that “voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking” and “palliative sedation” no longer were on a list of “symptom management” options.

“The bill does not otherwise attempt to expressly define terminal illness that each of these health care professionals would have to diagnose to trigger the offer of counseling end of life option,” Tran said. “It is not clear why nurse practitioners and physician assistants could make such a significant diagnosis. It is further not clear from the bill how making such significant diagnoses on a case-by-case basis can be done by such practitioners and assistants based on so-called ’standardized procedures and protocols’ not further defined by the bill. The potential effect of AB 2747 is extremely broad and could cause irrevocable harm.”

He said the legislation was sponsored by a group called Compassion and Choices, which formerly was known as the Hemlock Society and has advocated for physician-assisted suicide legislation in the past. A founder of the group has praised Dr. Jack Kevorkian for helping more than 100 people die.

Dozens of individuals and groups representing cancer patients, minority rights groups, members of religious communities and hospitals spoke before the Senate Health Committee in opposition to the idea. Also, numerous hospitals and other organizations opposed the measure, includeing California Disability Alliance, California Family Council, California Nurses for Ethical Standards, Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco.

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We said it would come to this when Oregon went down this path of physician-assisted suicide and of course the demented Liberals always prove us right. I am sure it will go nationwide when they bring in national socialized medicine

Oregon says cheaper to die than treat (OneNewsNow.com)

Thus far Oregon is the only state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, which is loosely regulated. But respect for life may be facing another threat there.

Oregonian Barbara Wagner is dying of lung Cancer. Oregon’s Health Services Commission has said it will not pay for more treatment, but will provide $50 in lethal drugs so she can kill herself.

Stevens believes that is a conflict of interest for the state because it controls the medical funds. “End-of-life chemotherapy can cost thousands of dollars a month, and bureaucrats — in an attempt to save money — are telling patients [they] can’t provide money for … chemotherapy, but here take these pills and they will comfort you [and] end your stress.”

Crooked greedy Dentists are a much worse problem then suggested in this article. Those that are bilking Medicaid are also bilking cash paying and insurance paying customers. When you go in for a cleaning they tell you need fillings. Often you do not. When you go in for a filling they tell you need a root canal and a crown. Often you do not. Who checks the honesty of their diagnoses? Until we get proper dental oversight I suggest that everyone get a second opinion before you let anyone do work on your teeth. You would not believe how many slime balls are in your mouth.

Dentists who prey on children

I don’t know about you, but just mentioning the word dentist makes my stomach churn. The sound of a dentist’s drill sends shivers down my spine. One of the most frightening lines in the English language is: “You need a root canal.”

As if we needed another reason to hate dentists, did you know that some dentists intentionally perform unnecessary dental work just to be able to bilk the government?

It gets worse. These same dentists have removed good teeth of poor children just to increase billings to Medicaid. I wish I could tell you this was the plot of a horror film, but this grotesque form of fraud is happening in real life.

Democrats represent the majority of Americans so what does that say about national sanity? It is obvious to me that the leadership of neither party have sane answers on many issues but who elects them?

The Democrats are insane

The popular definition of insanity is making the same mistake over and over again expecting a different result.

By this definition, the Democratic Party leadership is insane.

Three examples:

High gas prices: The Democrats’ answer? A back-to-the-glorious-70s Jimmy Carter freeze in the dark replay with a global warming twist.

Health insurance availability and cost: The Democrats’ answer? A back-to-the-90s Hillary Clinton government seizure of the whole health care system.

War in Iraq: The Democrats’ plan? Declare defeat on the brink of success to relive the glory days of Vietnam.

Read on and weep for the great Democratic Party

You would think in a educational system they would be warning children about the health dangers of homosexual activity. But this is not a educational system it is more an indoctrination system. There should be a warning label required on every condom they hand out. “Homosexual behavior is known to shorten lifespans”.

Day of Silence’ vs. homosexual health risks (OneNewsNow.com)

LaBarbera also argues that many liberal school districts teach false facts about AIDS. He says they imply that everyone is at equal risk for contracting the disease — even though in 2005 71 percent of U.S. male AIDS cases involved homosexuals. He contends that many American young people are not being informed about other health risks associated with homosexuality either — such as increased infections of the Hepatitis B or C virus and the herpes virus. “We have all this evidence out there that homosexual behavior is dangerous,” the activist point out, “and yet our politically correct elites are promoting gay identity” to teens and children.

Although LaBarbera notes there have been numerous taxpayer-funded studies on the dangers of smoking,

They call this a news worthy study of echinacea and colds? 58 people over 8 weeks! Give me a break!

Lets see, I would think that over 8 weeks about 20 of the 58 people would normally be expected to get a cold. Then of the 29 who took the echinacea (ten of these might get a cold in this period ) had 5 fewer sick days than the other 29 that took a placebo? Seems to me that your study supports that those who took echinacea had five fewer sick days and thus probably had fewer colds.

If you are going to publish studies on echinacea publish a study that actually proves something. A study needs to be done on hundreds or thousands of people over a whole season in the way that people are directed to take echinacea. You are not supposed to take echinacea everyday for colds. You only take it when you are exposed to colds or when you are already coming down with a cold to lessen the duration. We already have studies that prove if you take echinacea every day it becomes less effective and might even be worse then taking nothing at all. However, if you take it as directed studies prove it will help prevent colds and lessen the duration of colds.

So what was the name of the drug manufacturer that sponsored the farce?

FOXNews.com – Study Finds No Evidence Echinacea Prevents Colds – Health News | Current Health News | Medical News

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco followed 58 volunteers for eight weeks and found no definitive evidence that echinacea prevented nasal congestion, sore throats and other cold symptoms.

While the echinacea group reported fewer sick days than the placebo group, nine versus 14, researchers chalked the difference up to chance.

First the schools brainwash children and confuse them about their sex identity and then we have these sex change agents from hell in the medical community that drug children so that they can be made into freaks for life. What a wonderful society the liberal social engineers are creating. Our demented society sexually abuses children everyday and then we wonder why many grow up to be sex abusers. Young children should not decide if they are transgendered and the medical community should not be facilitating this. This is nuts!  All who have a part in this demented program receive my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award.

Children’s hospital launches sex change for kids program

“Dr. Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who’ve ‘decided’ they are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to ‘change’ them to the opposite sex.”

“This is going on at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital in Boston – not some backwater clinic. This is the elite of the medical profession,” the organization said.

Your 100 percent correct. I wrote that insurance was the main problem with medical costs two years ago in this article. Medical costs could be reduced at least a third if you got rid of the insurance Mafia.

The Health Insurance Mafia – WSJ.com

Physicians and other providers need to liberate themselves from the Faustian bargain they’ve cut with the Mephistophelian suits who now run their professional lives. Because many doctors are loath to talk about money, they allowed themselves to perpetuate the fantasy that “insurance is paying.” It isn’t. There is no free lunch and no free physical exam.

If substantial numbers of health-care providers shook off the insurance monkey on their back, en masse, and the supply of providers was substantially increased by opening more medical schools, the result would be a more honest, cost-effective system benefiting everyone. Except the insurance companies.

There is no painless solution to this crises since there are over 50 trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities coming due. The only significant thing that can be done about this is to reduce future benefits. If they just raised taxes to pay the costs it would further depress the economy and it would make the shortfall worse. Unless something is done really soon paying out these unfunded liabilities are going to rapidly add to our national debt. That means more erosion of our standard of living through stagflation.

Here is what I expect from the next government if the economy recovers:
- The full retirement age will be raised to 70
- Social Security and Medicare taxes will be increased
- Continued understating of inflation and CPI adjustments for benefit increases.
- Denial of some medical treatments.
- Means testing to receive full benefits
- Passing some costs on to the future.
If the economy collapses the government will default and just pay for the tents and soup lines.

Government Benefit Programs in Trouble

The first year that payments will exceed income for Social Security will occur in 2017, just nine years from now, reflecting growing demands from the retirement of 78 million baby boomers. Medicare is projected to pay out more than it receives in income starting this year.”The financial difficulties facing Social Security and Medicare pose enormous challenges,” the trustees said in their report. “The sooner these challenges are addressed, the more varied and less disruptive their solutions can be.”

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, one of the trustees, warned that the country was facing a fiscal train wreck unless something is done.

“Without change, rising costs will drive government spending to unprecedented levels, consume nearly all projected federal revenues and threaten America’s future prosperity,” Paulson said in releasing the new report. “Our nation needs a bipartisan effort to strengthen both programs for future retirees.”

Actually health care will soon be one fifth of our gross domestic product. The solution is going back to a system like we had before insurance companies and all the various government medical programs added their bureaucratic costs. With one difference. We will need a sliding scale payment system for the really poor and we will need catastrophic medical coverage for everyone. I wrote an article over a year ago on how this can be done. It will be at least one third less costly than the expensive inadequate system that we have now.

Time for the truth about health care

If America is not careful, it could soon see one-seventh of its gross domestic product nationalized – the biggest step toward socialism this country has ever taken.

That’s what will happen if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton is elected president and the Democrats control the Congress. (Heck, it might even happen if John McCain is elected.)

What’s missing from the political debate about health care are ideas
about how to bring down the cost – to make it more affordable. The
answer is not nationalizing the industry. The answer is not doing more of the same. The answer is not 100 percent third-party payments. The answer is not less accountability to the patients.

But that’s what both Hillary and Obama and most of the Democrats in Congress believe is the answer.

Too many Americans agree with them – because they are just not smart enough to see through the smokescreen.

American Thinker: A Conservative Case for Universal Health Coverage: “I am a small-government conservative/libertarian and have hated the concept of socialized medicine almost all my life. But now, I could live with universal health coverage in the U.S.. Here’s why. “

Nice article and true although not Republican. Private medical insurance for those not qualifying for the socialized part of our system is not the answer. We are paying for socialized medicine for the poor and we are also paying for the government layer and the insurance layer that just adds to the cost of health care. Those getting ripped off are people who pay out of their own pocket or that have private health insurance. Those with health insurance are hit with premiums, co-payments and deductibles and those without health insurance who pay out of their own pocket pay much more per medical procedure then do others. The only people who make out are the people on the socialized side of our system.

I once wrote about a solution to our medical disgrace.

We need to either go all socialized or everyone needs to pay their own medical costs like they did in the old days and only have some form of catastrophic coverage for all. The way it is now just adds a third to the cost of medicine because of the extra staff and overhead that is needed to comply and pay for governmental and insurance company requirements. We have the worst of two systems. It costs one third more than any other system in the world, and it still is not universal coverage because some people fall through the cracks.

Furthermore, why should employers pay for the medical costs of their employees anyway? Why did employers because responsible for the health care of people working for them? There simply is no sane reason for this to have happened and it makes our businesses far less competitive in the world. The employers could pay their people more money if they did not have this overhead. If employers are paying for the bulk of medical care you already have a socialized medicine system put on the back of employers.

My Way News – Congress Aims to Put Out CigarettesWASHINGTON (AP) – Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and – more importantly – seeking a significant federal tax increase on cigarettes. The industry, once a lobbying behemoth, is quietly working against the tax bill. But it lacks the clout it once wielded. Several key lawmakers said they have had no recent contacts with tobacco lobbyists. And both houses have signaled a willingness to raise the cigarette tax if other provisions of a children’s health bill can be resolved. “I think the industry has tried to do things more quietly, largely because they obviously know how popular a tobacco tax is,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. The health advocacy group supports a proposed $35 billion increase in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which a higher cigarette tax would finance. House and Senate negotiators are trying to craft a veto-proof version of the bill. President Bush says he would veto it because it calls for a 61 cents-per-pack increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes, taking it to $1.

I don’t smoke cigarettes but I know this is not right. Federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes and lawsuits will push cigarettes to over $5 a pack. What right does government have to fund programs which have nothing to do with smoking on the backs of cigarette smokers? They are doing it because they can get away with it. Next, they will start ratcheting up taxes on CO2 or something else to pay for their socialized programs.

What will be the result of $4 a pack Federal and local cigarette taxes? People will just find more and more ways to get around the taxes through illegal activity making more criminal activity and abetting organized crime. Most poor people who are addicted to tobacco will chose cigarettes over things they really need for themselves or their family every time. So these tax laws are actually impacting the children of smokers by taking one to two hundred dollars each month from the family income. Money that they might use for food clothes and medical care.

In one way or another people who are addicted to tobacco are going to get their tobacco fix even if they have to grow it themselves. If the high taxes on cigarettes actually succeeded in reducing the number of smokers the government would not be able to fully fund these programs and they would continually have to raise taxes until they priced tobacco out of the legal market. After that the taxpayers would have to pick up the cost of the socialized programs that the tobacco taxes funded. In other words this is really a back door attempt to bring in a government socialized medicine plan by incrementation.

We don’t need a nanny state that robs from people to pay for socialized programs and that creates more criminal activity. We already have the highest incarceration rate in the world mainly due to jailing people who traffic substances that other citizens use. Taxpayers pick up the bill for all that. We don’t need to find ways to create more criminals. If government really must tax things that have negative consequences on society they might start with taxing porn, abortion and the people who pass these destructive laws.

‘Maine’s ‘Sex School’ Taken to Court?’ – J. Grant Swank Jr. – Oct 20, 07: ““In light of the King Middle School’s recent admission that pre-teen schoolgirls were sexually active, the Christian Civic League of Maine announced today it will ask the State of Maine Office of the Attorney General to review the matter for an investigation into criminal activity. “According to Maine law, sexual relations between adolescents is permissible, as long as both are aged fourteen or over, and the age difference is no more than 5 years.”

So let me get this straight. It is against the law for those under 14 to have sexual relations in Maine but this school is giving out condoms and birth control pills to pre-teens to make it possible for them to break the law? Seems to me the middle-school committee and all who follow their policy are breaking the state law by not turning in the teens that they say they know are having sex. By aiding them and protecting them from discovery they are an accessory to their crimes.

How do You Make Americans Sign up For Universal Health Insurance? – HUMAN EVENTS: “How will the government find out if everyone is covered by health insurance? Will it somehow make everyone report his policy and group number? Clinton promises that her plan won’t require any new bureaucracy; so, who will handle the record keeping for the government — the IRS? You thought that the IRS was intrusive now? Wait until they go after your medical and insurance records.

Assuming that the government does determine the insurance status of every American, if it finds someone who hasn’t signed up, will the government sign up for him? Here, the government would say, this is your insurance coverage. Now pay up. Would the uninsured be punished, and if how so? Will they be taken to court (or more likely, an administrative law judge in the bowels of some agency) and be required prove that they have enough individual resources to be self-insured? Or, what if he simply chooses not to be covered? If convicted, will he be assessed a large fine or be dragged off to jail. These questions are not addressed in Clinton’s summary of her plan displayed on her web site.”

RealClearPolitics – Articles – Our Crazy Health-Insurance System: “Almost daily, we’re bombarded with apocalyptic warnings about the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance. Sen. Hillary Clinton wants to require everyone to have it, big companies to pay for it and government to buy it for the poor. That is a move in the wrong direction. America’s health-care problem is not that some people lack insurance — it’s that 250 million Americans do have it.”

That is true, insurance drives up the cost significantly. I wrote about how health care costs could be reduced by one third. Just eliminating all the unnecessary overhead is most of it.