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  • Euthanasia is illegal doing of individual.

  • Time will tell what will ultimately happen. Because often times a law or a policy often applies where it was not intended years after it was enacted. For example, the so-called war on terror in the beginning seem was as if it was targeting terrorist, is now directed towards Americans and things that have nothing to do with terrorist.

    The bottom-line is, trust nothing that comes from the government.......those in it have a habit of lying and using clever sounding words to mislead people.

  • Oregon has a law that lets people choose to refuse care or even get pills to end there life if they are placed on hospice. The state does not make you take pills or make you choose to end treatment. I was a home health aid for a person in Oregon and I saw the paper work. Amongst the choices my client could make were long term use of feeding tubes and other care wile in a vegetative state. She decided for herself she wanted to pass at home. It was all up to her till the end.

  • I think what's important to remember is that all of this is voluntary, so if your grandma doesn't want end of life counseling then she can simply tell her doctor to stfu and that should solve the problem. It's not like the gov. is rounding up old people in carts every 5 years for their "how to kill yourself" lesson, lol.

  • I believe nothing this administration says..

  • It's not about "death panels" or "euthanasia." It's about rationing, which will occur.

  • My father is 83, he is a farmer, STILL farms. I can not imagine him being hauled in every 5 years to talk about his end of life. If someone doesn't want to live any more & chooses to end their life THAT should be their decision. I don't want a series of questions put to them as though they are a financial burden on the country or their families. In your condition is life worth living? Keep framing it around hospice YET where is the list of questions that are required? PRINT THEM!!!!!

  • We can solve this problem by having the President tell Americans WHO he is going to appointed on that advisory benefit committee. Are Americans suppose to wait until the bill is passed to find out? READ the bill!

    Is your primary care doctor going to give you your end of life session every 5 years or is it another set doctors? What does that interview involve? Hospice & decisions of not to prolong life artificially? What are they asked to think about in their life? READ the bill!

  • I don't trust anyone in Gov't they all fucking lie and flip flop. Obama's reform will do more harm than good, there will be about 300 million Americans who need med benefits with no additional doctors, we will die as we wait. Is reform needed, yes, but not this.

    I want to see a ONE PAGE bill with bullet points, not a 1,018 page bill filled with bureaucratic bullshit!!!!

  • Both sides of the health care reform debate are treating Euthanasia like it's a taboo subject.

    The Republicans are scaring people into thinking that the government will be setting up death panels.

    The Democrats are responding by stating the fact that Euthanasia is not in the health care reform bill.

    Both sides are sidestepping what should really be debated, the legalization of Euthanasia.

    Now is a good time to talk about Euthanasia.

  • Keywords to google: As vets await checks, VA workers get $24M bonuses, By Associated Press Writer Kimberly Hefling, Fri Aug 21, 12:07 pm ET . . . Shows current corruption in government run healthcare. It's unavoidable when you have authority, and the best printing press in the world. The temptation is too great. We need to get rid of the Fed too.

  • Look, guys and gals, I really do HATE to triple post...

    but this woman is LYING! She is getting PAID to say what she is saying. I have read the bill, both of them. You can read it one way and say that she MAY be telling the truth. You can read it another and say that she is FULL OF IT.

    The BIG problem is that BOTH bills leave WAY too much to CONGRESS and BEAUREAUCRATS to decide in the future.

    Not good enough for me.

    Sorry.

    Don't take my word. Read for yourself!!!!

  • You obviously have not read it if you think she is lying.

  • Pardon me, but I don't want the words "federal government" and "end of life" to EVER be mentioned in the same sentence.

    EVER!!

    Show me where in the CONSTITUTION of the United States of America where the power to determine such things is GRANTED?!

  • did you even listen to what she's saying? It's "end of life consultation" they'll pay for you to talk to a doctor about your options, they're not going to force you to kill yourself. Get some perspective- as a UK citizen I've grown up with the NHS, there's nothing sinister about it, all it is the RIGHT to LIFE that all humans deserve, being supported by a government YOU pay your taxes to. This is a good thing- it saddens me that Americans seem to be throwing away a gift without understanding it.

  • From the bill..... section 1233.

    "An explanation by the practitioner of advance care planning, including key questions and considerations, important steps, and suggested people to talk to. "

    BTW, "Practitiioner" does NOT mean Doctor. It's up to the Commish. Could be nurse, physician's assistant. dog catcher, et.c Advance planning, also referred to as end of life counseling. Determined by committee.

    Death panel too extreme?

    What would you call it for your mother?

  • a practitioner means someone practicing in the given field- it's not going to be a dog-catcher, stop being so sensationalist. Read the words you posted, there's nothing there about killing your grandma, it's about letting your grandma learn about hospices and where she can get the best care as she reaches the end of her life.

  • Wow, you're pretty paranoid, along with the rest of you fear-mongering right-wing fucktards.

  • watch?v=23fdvk3_NxQ

    if 'liberals' still think this is a left right issue I suggest you listen to the above link. I would also encourage you to read the book 'propoganda' put out by the CIA in the 1960's about TV being used as a brainwashing tool. Don't you guys every wonder why you repeat the same exact arguments from the TV? Have you ever thought about doing research on your own? It hard to admit your political ideology has been brainwashed, most of you don't even create your own thoughts.

  • ladies and gentlemen: lada.

    that is all.

  • o my g*d you guys...obama is installing totalitarian fascism....which why i am free to comment on this video posted by the white house's youtube channel....o wait that doesn't make any sense what-so-ever....this is just like nazi germany though i swear....no matter ho illogical that sounds....good i got the words "nazi" and "german"(y) in there, that ought to plant some seeds.

    HIGH BARRACK!  KEEP UP THE GOOD EFFORTS

  • It doesn't happen all at once. Look this up on govtrack: H. J. Res. 5, 1/6/09, Sponsor: Rep. José Serrano [D-NY16], Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

  • To reduce the cost of healthcare: 1) Limit the amount that lawyers can sue for to $250K, they have this law in CA, then doctors don't have to order any unnecessary MRIs, or write unnecessary prescriptions to cover themselves, 2) Have a co-payment for all visits of $10 or $25 to reduce recreational visits, 3) No free healthcare for illegals. They need to apply for citizenship, learn the language, & become an American . . . this won't happen though because the reform isn't about reducing costs.

  • Lady, if you get cancer or break your back, that's what the insurance premium you've been paying is supposed cover. If it doesn't, then your family needs to help you. I despise these drug companies that make you think you need their products, & how they pollute - they've found mood stabilizers in the tap water. If it's not going to cost me in taxes, who's paying for it? Oh, the gov't will run up the deficit, a ponzi scheme on the next generation, got it. s/b No limit on how much you can earn.

  • I bet the multi-billionaire health care profiteers laugh at your stupidity. How much are they paying you to defend them? They depend on ignorant fools like you. I cannot beleive how God damn stupid you are not to realize this. They fucking bait you and you bite- yeah, your a fucking dumb ass fish.You WILL regret what you say.One day you'll die, and on your death bed just remember you asked for it -die alone, you selfish fool. You think your healthcare provider will be at your bedside? Fuck no.

  • What right does anyone have to put a price tag on healthcare?Ass,if you get cancer or broke your back,wtf are you saying?Why the fuck are you arguing about health care reform? Retard, don't you realize your arguing against your own best interest?Dumb fuck, its not going to cost YOU in taxes- I know that with your mentality there is no way you earn more than 250K a year unless of course, you suck a lot of cock and I bet you love that- when you're HIV pos. you'll be whistling a different tune.STFU

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  • A lot of money spent to defeat the Red menace of communism, so we could live free. Recall President Reagan's speech on 6/12/87 in Berlin, famous for "Tear Down This Wall." And now, 22 years later, what ideology does our government want to implement? Communism. WTF? Hey, we are not a collective, we are individuals. This way of thinking itself kills people. The super rich can be individuals, but everyone else is equal. "Everyone" doesn't deserve health coverage, they need to work for it.

  • Your last sentence is probably the most retarded hateful things I've heard in a while. Would you tell that to a dying family member of yours who couldn't afford the best care?

  • Get rid of any sense of entitlement, and be responsible for yourself. You don't need the government.

  • Responsible for yourself? If that's your argument concerning health care, it's not very strong. In that case, don't even rely on your current health insurance, you should be able to pay for treatment up front, right? If not, perform treatment on yourself. Isn't that the ultimate form of being responsible for oneself?

  • Now you're talking! I like how you think!

  • lol, jesus....

  • Sounds like a point of view coming from someone who has had an easy life. Not everyone starts out with great parents and a nice house. Some people need help through better public education and healthcare. Do you know how the world works, or do you just live in a small town where your narrow minded point of view might work.

  • Haha! I have heard this before, and I can't figure out why. All I'm doing is saying what I think is the right way to do things. Point of view from someone with an easy life? I won't go into it, but it has not been easy for me. Some would say anyone living in America has an easy life. The easy life is a relative subject, what's difficult for you is easy for me, what's difficult for me is easy for someone else. What are you thinking of, how the world works?

  • wow people !!!

    "now is the time for thinking people to think"

    stop the incendiary rhetoric and calm down. It's not a law yet it is still just a Bill..... this will take time. We have been arguing about this stuff since Pres Roosevelt.....that would be Teddy Roosevelt 1912 ! where have all the SRs gone from 1965? study the history of healthcare..we can do it this time to benefit everyone

  • look here!

    DEMOCRAT ANSWER TO GLOBAL WARMING :::COMMUNISM

    DEMOCRAT ANSWER TO HEALTH CARE

    :::::::COMMUNISM

    ARE YOU SEEING A PATTERN?

  • nah they don't force euthanasia, they just neglect them to death. If you think a huge program like this wont put our country further in economic crisis, your silly. Look up what Rom Emanuel's brother (Obamas health adviser) has said abut rationing health care under crisis.

  • Shrink the government. It needs to be small. More government creates vast bureaucracies of people, promoted through affirmative action, who do not have to fear being fired, hence they don't work very hard, & have their own form elitism, while taxes increase for everyone. It does not create a better product, a deadly one, as history has shown. One option of many? Ok, but your income is from the tax base, which is guaranteed, & it gives you an advantage, but, we are long over spent actually.

  • Yeah, that's it Gerbils. Keep telling your lies for Hitler. We all know you are feeding the public lies.

  • ..."Gerbils"?

    OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO FUCKING STUPID

    It's kind of adorable :D

  • Republicans are too dumb. We get a Republican President that cant speak English, a Vice Presidential candidate that doesn't know if Africa is a COUNTRY OR A CONTINENT, and a Republican senator that can't READ!!

  • Um, last I checked, Obama is the president now. He owns this mess

  • Good job.. .My reference was Bush, Palin, and Senator Virginia Foxx.. I just think that its pretty sad that people we elect as Senators can't read simple English (as shown in this video)

  • bigo #2 (ewee)

    NOW WE HAVE AN ASSHOLE FROM KENYA THAT THINKS WE HAVE 57 STATES!.....WHAT A DUMB SONOFABITCH....then the shithead gropes the Queen...WHAT AN ASSHOLE

  • OK he made a mistake regarding how many states we have.... Seems pretty small to me compared to Captain Dipshit (Bush) wasting $670 billion in Iraq.

  • Once these sonofbitches start killing the mentally retarded we will never be able to stop the killing. just like ADOLPH HITLER

  • I know! Retards are just like Pringles- no matter how guilty it makes me feel I just can't keep myself from finishing the whole tube in one sitting.

  • DooDoo

    Have you tunned anyone in lately for being fishy? Report Michelle i'll bet that motherfucker is a fish smelling son of a bitch.

  • You should take advantage of A Medical Procedure called "Brain Surgery", and donate it to

    someone who can use it .....your needs are very limited...

    Bossman

  • latest Obama quote, ( no shit!)

    FED-EX AND UPS ARE NOT IN TROUBLE, IT'S THE POST OFFICE THAT'S IN TROUBLE!

    and that stupid sonofabitch thinks that'll sell us on health care!?

  • I'd get right on it if I had any clue what the fuck you just tried to say. WE SPEAK ENGLISH IN AMERICA HURF DURF

  • IMPEACH THE JOKER

  • Why so stupid?

  • Sorry the joker termed out last January

  • My friend has 2 plans - hers & her husbands. She STILL owes over $100,000 after a month in ICU. She almost DIED & now has to deal with collection agencies! That can happen to anyone- & frankly I hope it happens to the people on here who are against the public option - people like that only "see the light" when it affects them. We The People don't just exist so Bill McGuire can have his 1.6 BILLION DOLLAR Bonus. We The People can do better than that.

  • Useful and informative video. "We want this debate to be carried out on the merits."

  • hey!

    WILL THIS BILL PROVIDE FOR US TO SUE THE GOVERNMENT FOR MEDICAL MAL PRACTICE?

  • Like how you can sue your insurance company for "mal practice" [sic] now?

    Protip: There is a specific class of people who can be sued for malpractice. They're called "doctors."

  • doodoodudley

    you stupid ignorant shitforbrains commie-care asshole. since the government is taking all decision making away from the doctor and patient then they need to be liable for malpractice. a canadian just sued the canadian government for the same thing and won.....but he died. you as an asshole liberal would not care that he died though. go suck a carrot you socialist assmunch.

  • Just like the Black Plague,

    Obama care will be brought to you by......

    THE RATS

  • What compels you to try and come up with "clever" little riffs on my username? Is "doodlydoodlydoo" seriously not stupid-sounding enough for you? You, sir, are a fickle bitch and a tease.

    And what's up with all the homoerotic imagery? I get the feeling you're sublimating your true feelings about long, turgid phallic vegetables.

  • Seniors being 'put to death' by the government omg, these people are desperate...The wild lies are funny from them though.

    Gobama! Get this legislation through with the public option.

  • that cycle. This way we can lower the costs of premiums by paying these hospital bills & thus lowering the cost of procedures. See how that works out?

  • All of them aren't having heart attacks, which are expensive. What services are they requiring that have rung up such a huge bill? They get a cold and go to the emergency room, an $80 visit without insurance, and the hospital rings up $300. Let's focus on the irresponsibility of the Mexican government. They are bought off by the drug dealers to do nothing. Get those people in jail where they belong, and make Mexico the place where I want to go for healthcare. But they are children.

  • Scripted much? It does take a lot of practice to lie with a straight face.

  • You're right. This did sound like it was read from a script. I always like to hear my pronouncements on Health Care Reform played as a game on "Whose line is it anyway".

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  • We shouldn't have to pay for the illegals to have 10 kids each. If they want that many, they should planning on how they will cover it themselves. Can we train doctors in Mexico, and then show them how to have a free healthcare system?

  • Guess what idiot? We pay for illegals now under the current system. That's right...if one has a heart attack & needs urgent medical care, the hospital is required by law to give it to them. And of course they have no insurance & thus no way to pay so the hospital eats the bill. So to make up for these cases (over $300 billion/year in unpaid hospital bills), doctors/hospitals/etc charge more for their services. That means insurance companies premiums go up.

    If we insure them, we break...

  • We shouldn't pay for the octomum as well and all the 18 and counting Mormon families.

    people should be guaranteed services for 2 kids under public health care and after that they should take some responsibility and pay for the ... lack of condom catholic bullshit

  • The Republican Party has been bought out by the Insurance Industry. They are the ones who are proposing euthanasia for the elderly by stranding them without adequate care and stealing their dignity as they do die. Scare tactics are all that they have left. Pathetic.

  • Almi, FUCK YOU liberal demtard!

  • Yes. PilatusPorterPC6 is correct. This is how you conduct a rational conversation. You swear at people in capitals. Capitals make sure the person you are swearing at knows that you really mean it. Swearing in lowercase often gives the impression that do don't really mean it.

    Hooray for freedom of speach!!!

  • Real mature, but if you worked in a hospital & saw the scores of elderly dying slowly from preventable conditions that adequate care, diet & activity could have prevented then your tune would be really different. Besides this isn't about Dem vs Repub when you get down to it. It's about people who recieve the best benefits possible on our dime denying the same to the people who pay for theirs. Also the majority of people in the Senate & Congress are wealthy while most Americans aren't. Wake up.

  • hey almi, SHUT UP!! It is NOT about healthcare FOOL!! It IS about rush rush rush!!! tHEY are PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST/FACISTS!­!!!! mORE POWER SO GWT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL AND you WAKE UP! i WOULD ALSO ADVISE YOU STOP DRINKING THE kOoL aID!

  • OBAMA SAID IT HIMSELF

    "fed-x and ups are doing fine, it's the post office thats in trouble"

    THEY CAN'T DELIVER THE MAIL!!

  • One name for all you brainwashed conservatives: Wendell Potter

  • Thank you, Melody.

  • i wach fox newz  i asared a obahma help us superman

  • i ascareed a obama i ascared of deth panal help me rush i dont wan die

  • This really is a stretch even for the far right.

  • check out keywords: va horror story

    that what we will get

  • Jesus christ republicans are fucking stupid.

    It's embarrassing.

  • Personally I think we should impeach Lex Luthor and Toyman first. Those guys are cocks.

  • Wait, so the guy typing in complete sentences is a jack-off but the (presumably) full-grown adult incapable of understanding current events except through the lens of fucking comic books is a model citizen?

    I DONE LARNED A THING! THANKS, DOCTOR SCIENCE

  • So anyway, now that I'm fully on board with your plan, I think we really should think about going after Solomon Grundy first. Point one: he is strong, like ox. Point two: he is the living dead, and conventional weapons may not be able to harm him. A most vexing dilemma!

  • how does it feel to get raped by a junkie every day? dumbass.

  • vagina900

    i don't know, why are you asking are you needing a junkie rape? you must be a dipshit democrat....

    DEPORT ALL DEMOCRATS!

    IMPEACH THE JOKER!!

  • Jesus Christ, you're dumber than a sack of hammers, aren't you?

  • So yes, then? Duly noted.

  • haha. you are basically the mind of the Republican party. worthless whiner.

  • Wow, you're not very good at this.

    Why do you hate America?

  • You know you can say "fuck" on Youtube, right?

    And "chicken-footed"? Really?

  • ????

  • Uhhh...still alive over here.

  • I work in a hospital & I watch people lose their dignity as they die. Some of my patients have been in the hospital for 3 yrs or more. Most of those are mentally gone, on ventilators, with foley catheters & anal tubes. It's bad. They have no dignity. If they were mentally present I believe quite a few would want to go but they can't. Their wishes are not known and their families are keeping them artifically alive even though they are brain dead & in one case rotting from inside out.

  • mercy for the sick is not what this bill is about....it is about installing communism in America.....what makes you think any government has pity...that, has never happened in history. they as any rogue government only wants to kill.

  • you are so right !! My father met with his" death tribunal" that tribunal consisted of......him my mom my siblings and his doctor He was at the end of treatments for bone cancer he was 81 he was on medicare His wish? No hospitals, no nursing homes he asked to die at home in his own bed. We took care of him with wonderful care from Hospice and a visiting nurse He passed away 3 wks later with mom by his side, her hand on his heart It was the saddest and most honorable thing I ever did for him

  • Fucking ,Bull Shit,lying asshole's,everyone of them.

  • Of course Insurance companies review cost/beneft. Since it's a company, it minimizes "risk". So you, a human being, can represent a too high "risk", so you get eliminated. This happens now. Know anyone with Alzheimers? No one cares for them, other than their own families. Most need assisted living, no insurance, including Medicare, covers it. That's they way it is now. I'm speaking from personal experience, not from a set of "talking points".

  • Mrs. Joseph Gobbels

  • Ooh, ooh, I wanna play too! Mister Hermann Goering! Doctor Heinrich Himmler! DAME ULRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP!

    Whee, this is fun!

  • Why doesn't market competition create the lowest price & best service? Because the product is care. Some problems are small & easy to fix, others are catastrophic & ongoing. The market can handle the small problems the way you think - so, what about long term care, like for those with Alzheimers, cancer, or becoming a quadraplegic. Expensive health problems like these are what need help. What about refurbishing existing buildings, & convert them to hospitals? Homeless can go there too for help.

  • Anderson Baldwin Carter Choate Clemente Gonzalez Gravel Kaptur Kucinich McKinney Nader Paul Perot Sheehan Ventura Left and rights of passage Black and whites of youth Who can face the knowledge That the truth is not the truth? Obsolete Absolute Single payer? Medicare for all? Off the table? Just like Impeachment was?!
  • Wow! Could she read that with any less emotion?

  • So, you think instead that the health insurance companies themselves do not review their procedures for cost/benefit already?

    Are you so naive?

  • Even though I am a conservative and in general, I do not care for this health care reform in its current state, this is one thing that I do find offensive from the right. How many of you complaining on this point have even drafted your own will? Let alone got "your house in order" in case the inevitable appointment with death should come sooner than you expect? As I read it, this is to encourage people to do just that. But trust me, I feel this legislation sucks for other legitimate reasons.

  • Yes, those are some things that are covered in the bill, but go on and read all the sec. 1233 A-F and you will understand why there is much more there then just setting affairs straight.

  • notice how no one is yelling. It must be hard for republicans to hear that they are just plain stupid.

  • Propaganda vids or not, I like them. You can see what the people have to say. I don't understand how we can spend more than we take in, without any consequences. I don't want to see people dying in the gutter, but how does this get done?

  • I wonder if Obama fought back at right-wing fundamentalists the same way they fight him (with inflammatory speech and unfounded rumors), would he gain more respect from them?

  • Maybe; bullies only respect force.

  • He's got great insuarance already, dingbat. I'm sure the 50 million people without health insuarance will take him up on it though.

  • I somewhat agree, but it's best to hear both sides of the case before making your decision, even if you think they're lying to you. I don't think they're trying to be deceptive or cold-hearted, I just think this direction leads to bad things. A person doesn't become a liberal politician to be a bad person, but I think the political climate corrupts people in both parties.

  • I really like how all these pages are getting flooded by republican think tanks. The last time I was in the hospital they charged me $30 for "drugs", which consisted of a whopping two tylenol. Don't try and tell me the health care system is fine.

  • Ezekiel Emanuel has quire the euthanasia track record. Nice try.

  • HR 3200 is not reform!

    IT'S A COOKBOOK!!! IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!!!

  • is this  lady related to Mrs Obama

  • end of life matters involve whether a person once brain dead wants 2 be kept alive on a ventilator. or, if they want a feeding tube if swallowing causes aspiration pneumonia...etc not euthenasia, which is a capital offense in the USA...duh...

  • Euthanasia is not a capital offense in the USA.  It is legal in Oregon, and Washington. It is not specified in the bill that end of life matters involve those things. It does specify terminal illnesses though...

  • and from that we know that the government would suggest/encourage/force people to commit suicide? What kind of heartless bastards do you take them for?

  • I take them at what they write and what they do, and according to this bill, that is what they want. Whether or not it is their intent to suggest suicide, that is what is shown.

  • No free healthcare

    Have you ever had a bad dentist? He doesn't care about you. His focus is just on getting money from your insurance company.

    He will recommend $2,000 worth of work along your gumline, that will fall off within a year, when some basic education in oral hygiene, using a $40 oral irrigator and some salt water is the answer.

  • what a nutter

  • The women at the beginning looks like

    Obama's wife haha.

  • please remove this channel from youtube, they encourage old people who are no longer productive to commit suicide. This is disgusting and inhumane. Please remove this nasty channel

  • Please, please, PLEASE show me one video on this channel that does that. I'll do whatever I can to promote you and flag this channel if you can.

  • What are the FEMA death camps for?

  • They're for you.

  • Getting Alex Jones and his sock puppet Glen Beck the attention they so desperately crave?

  • For pooping, silly.

  • pro life my ass

  • I know a thousand pages is a lot to get through, but there are provisions for panels that will be set up to decide what treatments will be allowed for people at what ages. So how will the public option be any different than private insurance, other than the fact taxpayers will be asked to foot the bill? At least with private insurance, you have a choice and know what you're getting into ahead of time.

  • More committees, more wasted money, more control. That is what is happening. Private insurance is flawed because of one primary reason. Malpractice insurance, and out of proportion law suits against doctors. It is not as much the insurance companies that are flawed, but the system that the doctors have to deal with because of the courts.

  • health care reform is commin folks******

  • This is the silliest of all the inane rumors going around. I am frightened by the idea that people really think this could be in the bill. Wow.

  • It's about time the Obama administration responded to all the crazy allegations. These wild stories just get wilder and wilder with each re-telling.

  • Until they turn out true.

  • I heard the health care bill says we're all going to have our brains sucked out with big giant machines and our heads filled with cottage cheese!

  • If they ever do I'm sure we'll have egg on our face. What if they don't though?

  • First of all, that woman was part robot.

    No, the government is not going to 'force' anyone to use doctor assisted suicide, but what could/will happen is that the gov will decide that the six months worth of palliative care or hospice care aren't worth it for grandma. So, the gov will tell them that they won't cover it, but they will cover a doctor assisted suicide pill, if legal in the state.

    In other words, the same problems we have with insurance companies will still be a problem with gov.

  • Well, that's absurd first of all. But just playing along, what would be the solution to that problem?

  • It isn't though. It is already happening in Oregon, where someone is denied treatment by insurance companies, but given the suicide pill instead.

    I'm not sure what the solution to this is. I'm just saying what it is not, and it is not government care. We won't be better off at all... we'll just be paying a lot more.

  • Wow. a suicide pill. I need to read taht part of the bill.

  • Just read the Oregon and Washington State Laws regarding Dr. Assisted Suicide. Then read the horror stories about what happens when a government dictates what type of care is appropriate for sick individuals.

  • Excuse me... I should clarify.  Much of the problem is not government. Insurance companies ARE a problem... but to think that government will not be susceptible to the same temptations is fanciful. That is what I'm arguing.

  • Thank you for saying that insurance companies are the issue. I don't think government had anything to do with the incident you mentioned. It was probably a problem with the medical treatment is not being covered by the insurance provider. That to me is a crime that should be stopped.

  • You're the most obvious disinfo troll I've ever seen. You need to be fired. Surely they can find someone better than you.

  • A problem with Youtube is that it's often hard to tell who's replying to whom. I mean, 'they' could be the government or the corporations that oppose healthcare reform. Or the illuminati. Or aliens.

    But regardless of which 'side' you're on, I'd rather discuss the merits of the bill and the rumors surrounding it than accusing someone of not owning their own thoughts and words. It's paranoid, destructive and doesn't do anyone any good.

    Thumbs down.

  • There is only one 'they' engaged in spreading disinformation and that's the megacorporations lobbying against meaningful reform. It's not paranoid, it's realistic and understanding. I also wasn't talking to you. I also think there's good chance you're on the payroll too.

    Thumbs down.

  • Here's an article (replace [dot] with . :

    ednews[dot]org/articles/lady-d­enied-chemotherapy-but-offered­-assisted-suicide.html

  • good article.

  • Uh Oh! Poor Melody, shes just another White House Director thats illiterate. She seems to be reiterating a fairy tale rather than discussing health care. Sure is a scary one. At least this one at least had pictures. The Great Leader said. I believe it. End of story.

  • Just because people try to debounk morbid rumors about healthcare does not mean they take Obama's word as gospel truth. You really need to find some perspective. He's our president, just like every president before him. I hope you didn't refer to any of them as a The Great Leader.

  • Holly SHIT.... What the heel is going on here??? Someone said that this shit will pass no matter what!!.. They don't CARE WHAT WE THINK>>>> Fuck off white house...