She was a friend, a really good friend, who died much too soon. And if dying young wasn’t tragic enough, she died a slow, agonizing death, in and out of consciousness for weeks, all the while begging for someone to stop the pain. Her doctors warned that increasing the morphine could suppress her respiration, thus hastening her death. But the pain had become too great. At that point, in constant and excruciating pain, she just wanted it to stop, no matter what.
With trepidation, her doctor ordered a higher dose of intravenous morphine. As the medication took affect, her face, twisted in agony, began to relax. Lying in a hospital bed, by now weak and frail and wasting away, she gazed for a long moment at her husband and two small children standing by her side and, for the first time in days, was able to smile. And then, she breathed her last.
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We could also say by not providing equal health care to hard working people without insurance, we are already sponsoring death panels. Your position on that was "health care isn't a right".
This panel has nothing to do with imaginary rationing or death panels. It is a group of people who may have wrongly focused on one aspect or one data point, false positive alarms, rather than looking at the big picture. If you are well-educated as you seem to be you know this is common with panels. There doesn't have to be a sinister motive behind it, there is abundant stupidity, greed, and lies on BOTH sides of the issue.
One would think an insider who knows everything about the heath care system and who has time to write column after column would spend some time telling us what is really wrong with the system and how to fix it. Why not educate instead of playing to reader's fears?
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/pocketgd09/gcp09s2.htm#BreastScreening
The recommendation issued by U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (established in 1984) recommends breast exams beginning with age 40, every 1-2yrs. How is this the same as age 50, every two years as suggested by this article in paragraph 4 ????
Is this a subtle attempt to alter reality in order to sell a preconceived idea?
A SCARE TACTIC is what this is..
Healthcare reform is not evil...allowing people to die from preventable diseases is evil.
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf09/breastcancer/brcanrs.htm
You wrote -
Healthcare reform is not evil...allowing people to die from preventable diseases is evil.
Well,this is EXACTLY what the gov't is doing by changing the age from 40 to 50 !!!
The only "SCARE TACTIC" might well be myoptic ignorance. This so-called independent task force is subordinate to a political appointee and funded by a left leaning congress hell bent on socialized medicine. The administration is now in damage control after one of its lackies let the cat out of the bag prematurely.
Do you honestly think it is better to have a profit-seeking corporation between you and your physician? Corporations do not answer to voters. McCarthy would be proud...bad socialists are out to get you!
Healthcare is a right. But until you know someone who has died of a simple infection, you may not think so. Consider yourself fortunate.
I wonder what Jesus would do?
I believe that providing healthcare to people where the private industry has failed miserably is the governments role. People are dying due to lack of insurance or underinsurance. These are preventable deaths. They include mothers, fathers and children. It is a moral obligation.
The local IDA is an example where they don't work. The key to making them work is to have people who disagree, or free (independent) thinkers in the group.
At NASA at least one outside person who asked tough questions was always in the group.
It's a shame people don't look at the facts before writing articles like this.
I'm still waiting for Spencer to write an article telling us how to improve the system. I can get Fox News already if I want to see the wrong footage accidentally dubbed in.
Could someone please point it out to me so I can understand how Congress or the President has the authority to take over 1/6 of our economy!
Do not let your political ideology go against common sense. Do churches around here not preach about loving one another, care for the less fortunate, do not judge? I think maybe the scripture is Matthew 25:33-40.
The private sector has failed horribly. Greed is running the country under the false idea of a "free-market". There is nothing free about being in debt. We are owned.
Socialism for the rich, Capitalism for the poor.
Ask yourself this...can someone in this present day and time take care of an entire family while the wife stays home and raises the kids on a single income blue-collar job? It was not that long ago when you could. Where did the wealth go?
I agree with #7.
It's like health care. To fix the problem we have to go beyond political and religious agendas and identify and fix the actual problem.
that's the stupidest remark i have ever heard.
The church does a lot to help people but they cannot shoulder that burden alone.
The bible does not directly discuss healthcare, but it does discuss love and compassion. It does not make someone a communist to have compassion for those who are in need. And as a Christian, I feel that we are called upon to help those in need and not judge how they may have gotten there. For me, Jesus is neither liberal or conservative.
And to me, it is ironic that Communist China is now our biggest creditor. Yay capitalism. This is where greed takes you.
This group of people is ready to throw away their freedoms. They prefer bureaucrats to decide what the people want and need and what is best for society. The people have lost the ability to think for themselves. The bureaucrats use the power of the state to regulate tax and redistribute the wealth of those working for a living. Therefore, the lazy is willing to sacrifice free life for government run, legalized theft. These same people don’t understand that the legal theft pot will soon run dry and that they will be forced to ante up too. The only people that will make no sacrifices are the bureaucrats that people allowed to think for them.
The socialist views of the lazy makes for envy in the desire to posses another’s wealth with the intent of seeing another’s wealth lowered to lazy ones’ own level. People see health care as common good before private good which is actually Nazism.
Capitalism rewards people and punishes the lazy. Those people that want everything handed to them are the failures in capitalism and are willing to destroy America’s success to feed their personal greed.
Therefore, it’s not capitalism that fuels greed. It is the capitalism failures that were too lazy to pursue the good fortunes that capitalism has to offer.
Capitalism DOES promote greed...although its candy coated.
You say capitalism rewards people and punishes the lazy. So what is the driving force? Money..material possessions? I think we have lost sight of what is important. None of those things help you get to heaven...and you cant take them with you.
There are many people who are very very wealthy who earned their money abusing the system or finding loopholes often to the detriment of others. Some have inherited their money though no hard work of their own.
I will agree that if someone is successful in life, goes to college and works hard then he deserves the fruit of his labor. You are correct. However, had he not been in a system where it is possible to advance through hard work then his efforts would have been meaningless. There are people all over the world who work hard but because of the system in which they live, they are not compensated..they do not receive the fruits of their labor. So my point is that if you are able to work up the ladder because you live in a wonderful country like the USA, you need to give back a little to the system that allowed and aided your success so it can continue to help others. Some people may have more/different obstacles to overcome before they are successful. (single-mothers, widows, foster children etc... and they need support)
Furthermore, socalism and Nazism are not the same. You should read up on your ideologies before you accuse others of being Nazis because they promote healthcare reform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
My freedoms were lost when the Patriot Act was passed. Thank goodness we still have democracy because the will of the majority (per the US Consitution) spoke last November. And there was no supreme court ruling needed.
First of all we don’t have a democracy under the US Constitution and we never had one. When you say the Pledge of Allegiance, do you pledge “and to the democracy” or do you say “and to the Republic?” Have you ever heard the song Battle Hymn of the Republic? Wonder why that song wasn’t Battle Hymn of the Democracy?
Please give me just one example of where socialism works.
When Benjamin Franklin was ask, “what type of government did you give us?” he responded, “a republic if you’re cable of holding on to it.”
Next you say that Nazism is not socialism. What is it then? ANSWER: Nazism is absolutely a form of socialism. And it falls under common good before private good and falls in line with the government direction that Obama wishes to lead. HINT: Research Hermann Goering! You can touch on Fascism too. Research Bennito Mussolini.
Capitalism does NOT promote greed. Evil people promote greed and laws are made to punish people that turn to greed. Madoff is a good example. Additionally, the lazy in socialism promotes greed much more than capitalism. Who is screaming to share the wealth? Socialism is promoted by the lazy because the lazy prefers to have hand-outs rather than work for them, plus the lazy don’t want the people that aren’t afraid to work to succeed because the lazy don’t want to be surpassed.
Therefore, YES, I think many problems will be solved if we stop giving away to the lazy because they are lazy. Hunger is a great motivator. The pilgrims learned many moons ago that socialism don’t work when they discovered food being consumed rather quickly by those (the lazy) that don’t contribute.
I don’t care what you do in the interest of charity; it is not going to help you get to heaven. Good deeds will do nothing to get you there. There is only one way into the gates of Heaven and that is to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. If you think socialist ideals will get you closer to eternal life then you are in for a huge surprise.
You live in the United States and you are free to pursue happiness and wealth just as any other person. The only thing holding you back is yourself. Therefore, I assume that because you are scared to attempt to achieve happiness and wealth, those that do should share it with you! Misguided principles!
That is where this country is failing. It promotes the lazy. Don’t worry, If you are too lazy to work for a living, we’ll rob the people that do and give to those that don’t. That is the biggest kind of greed. Those that won’t work asking those that will to support them so they don’t have to work. Remember, some day even the lazy will have to pay for the ice cream and then government is going to tell you how much and what kind you can have. And you think that is the right direction!
I ask a friend a question about what is the best way to solve our problems. He said to only allow land owners the vote because they have a stake in the United States. I thought about it and it actually makes good sense. It will take the vote away from the Liberal Lazy. It was the way our forefathers set it up.
The Supreme Court banned prayer and bible reading in 1962 and 1963.
Now you do know.
Jump a few more years ahead when these kids were graduating and you can start to see the downturn in the USA
And.. any system that turns money into a false idol will fail. Good Luck.
Perhaps you need to think before you engage your keyboard. Not a judgment, just a suggestion.
I’m not generalizing people. I know that there are indeed people that need help and I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is the number of people that are capable of working but elect to be lazy. I’d guess that number far exceeds the truly needy. And, our government system is set up to make the liberal handing out of taxpayers’ money to the lazy far too easy. Bleeding heart liberals think that taking care of the lazy should be the responsibility of the working class. Or to be more specific, a class making X amount of dollars. However, before you jump on your attack bandwagon, I don’t fit into that X amount class, nor do I come close. But, I also don’t agree to punishing the wealthy to protect the lazy. There comes a time when people must take responsibility for themselves and give up on allowing someone else to do it for them. The lazy know who they are.
It’s time to tell these people that the free ride - mooch trip is over and it’s time to go to work? And those people that make it possible for the lazy to stay lazy; you are actually no better and a significant part of the problem. Once the lazy experience the end of the free ride, the problems will begin to take care of itself.
I don't see how you are connecting the Supreme Court's decision in the 1960's with the state of education now. You might as well say it was because of the Kennedy assassination or because of the Vietnam War.
I can't recall any significant change in schools about that time, nor was there any decline in performance. My education did not fail when when I transferred from a private Christian school into the public system, and I was never taught God would give me detention, lower grades, yell at me, or a give me a few whacks with the "board of education".
It seems to me most of the decline happened when schools became babysitters, mothers worked, and television raised the kids. We have a significant widespread social change that took place that had nothing to do with being forced to pray or fear of God.
As a matter of fact the only think that kept me and my roughneck friends in line were our parents telling us what was right and wrong, the risk of getting caught and dragged by the ear to the office, and the chance that some other kid might punch us in the nose.
The real problem today is every parent thinks only they have a right to discipline their kids, parents aren't home, parents are drunks or doing drugs, parents who think their kid can do no wrong or is just being a kid, and a school system that things tossing bad students that don't give a crap in with good students will pull the poor students up.
This change took place in the 70's and 80's, and the records show that was the big downturn. There is no evidence at all the downturn was caused by anything related to prayer.