Anyway, after being contacted by her doctors, the manufacturer of this designer drug decided to provide them for free for her (which is very unusual for a manufacturer to do for a drug which has a high retail price). Read more at: http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/5755842/

Personally, I do not think that every avenue must be taken in order to prolong life. I would not expect to be kept alive at $4,000 per month at taxpayer expense, but to be told that drugs to help me to commit suicide would be covered, is crass.

Unfortunately, any and all systems, ism´s and movements in the hands of greedy, ungodly handlers can be perverted and distorted in such ways that they use even plausible means to arrive at disastrous ends. We would also do well to note that our current health care dilemma has little to do with social engineering. It has been largely precipitated by our inability to afford the price of our own care and even with the highest health care expenditure in the world, we fail to provide adequate services to millions of under-covered and uninsured individuals. The truth is, many in the developing world have better access to health care than do many in the U.S.A.

What is sad, is that this has been the case for far too long for many poor and working poor. Only now that it has become an issue affecting many middle class Americans, is it being given the opportunity to be vigorously and publically debated. We may not agree with Obama on anything but it is in his administration that this debate is taking place. In eight years of George Bush and Republican administration of our country, there was scanty debate on an issue that is obviously vital to so many Americans.
Before we write the Obama off in the same breath as Hitler and Lenin, we should take a moment to ponder this fact and perhaps even the psychological effect that a black man in the White House, has had on our own racial biases. It seems to me that those who would oppose Obama are very quick to paint him as some sort of monster-in-the making, an aberration on the political landscape, in their efforts to discredit any initiatives he puts forward. This is not helpful, diverts attention from the real issues and will result in maintaining a status quo, which by any measure, is undesirable.

Long before the “death camps” came into being the disabled were targeted for disposal.

If I die because I cannot pay for measures to continue my life, that is the way it goes. If I am manipulated into letting the government kill me, as a cost-cutting measure, may they burn in hell.

In the case of managed medical care, someone will have to contain costs or reduce services to some in order to render them to others. This is not playing God any more than managing our own money at home is! We spend less money on one thing in order to spend more on another. To say that no one is entitled to make these decisions and that unlimited cradle to grave health care coverage at the expense of other taxpaying citizens is everyone´s right smacks much more of playing God.

In one case, you deny a service to someone who can´t pay for it…hardly a crime, while in the other case, you forcefully take from another person or business to pay for what another cannot afford! We must be careful with our rhetoric that we don´t do more harm than good. It seems that unless we are hell-bent on adapting false means to arrive at arguably more reprehensible ends, it behooves us to move in Hegelian fashion, to synthesize opposing interests, in support of our actual well being.

Health care spending continues to rise at a rapid rate forcing businesses to cut back on health insurance coverage and forcing many families to cut back on basic necessities such as food and electricity and, in some cases, shelters and homes. Our health care system is riddled with inefficiencies, excessive administrative expenses, inflated prices, poor management and inappropriate care, waste and fraud. These problems increase the cost of medical care associated with government health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and health insurance for employers and workers.

In just three years, the Medicare and Medicaid programs will account for 50 percent of all national health spending. Economists have found that rising health care costs correlate with significant drops in health insurance coverage, and national surveys also show that the primary reason people are uninsured is due to the high and escalating cost of health insurance coverage.

It´s obvious the average American needs some sort of relief but at what and who´s expense? His own pocketbook can bear no more. Government is also bankrupt and can only increase expenditures at someone else’s expense…the taxpayer! Businesses can bear no more as we see American businesses being bankrupted due to excessive health care liabilities, that they and the market can no longer support.

America has largely socialized it´s health care system at the expense of taxpayers, almost all of whom want no more taxes on their incomes and businesses. It should be obvious to all that without reform, more big businesses will be forced into bankruptcy, many small business will be forced to close their doors and that the overall effect on employment will be negative.

In large part, our current problems exist because we´ve lived well beyond our budgets, in an illusion that our expenses in the end, would be borne by other´s investments, in the case of insurance, and by other taxpayers, in the case of Medicaid and Medicare. We have created a false sense of entitlement but always with the true cost being borne with other people´s money.

Simply put, people no longer have the money to pay someone else´s bill and only with further government intervention combined with force, will people be coerced to further fund a broken system. It seems obvious we all have decisions to make and that in managed care; someone will need to make decisions, affecting our health care coverage. Of course, we could opt out of socialized plans with a little courage and pay as we go. Then we would be the owners of our own destiny. If enough people did this, far-fetched as such a likelihood seems, we would be free from anyone controlling our destiny, health care costs would drop and the fears generated by dependency, would largely dissipate.

God is the arbitrator of life and death, not man. Obama said yesterday that he is partners with God to feed the poor and heal the sick. But, he is no partner of God. When men play God, it is always at the expense of everyone else.

Why can’t the Counties or States all have a program like the one I am on (for lower income persons) instead of mandated health insurance for all? It would be much cheaper and it would still help cover those who need help. This program is not Medicaid. I pay a reduced rate for covered services. It helps since I cannot get insurance due to pre-existing conditions and even if I could get insurance, I could not afford the premiums.

If I break a hip when I get older, as folks sometimes do, then I would want it replaced so that I could still take care of myself and enjoy life.

However, if my heart or other organs get so damaged by either age or disease that it/they need replacing, then I believe that it will be my “time” to die “soon” and I will look forward to meeting those on the “other side,” who have “gone before me,” that I am hoping to see again.

I ate a good diet and exercised and did not smoke or drink or do drugs or participate in any other risky behavior (well, I did sky-dive once), but I still became ill through agricultural pesticide poisoning which ruined my immune system. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the right time and got drenched with pesticide spray back in 1975. (No, I did not sue; I never even realized that I would become sick from it when it happened.)

Many people are in the same circumstances as I am due to illnesses or accidents beyond our control. We would love to be able to work at high-paying jobs which include health insurance benefits, by using our hard-earned college educations, but our health statuses prevent this.

It does make me angry to see tax dollars going to persons who could work if they chose to. I got turned down for disability even though I paid in for years! The system is not just.

A great transfer of responsibility is now envisioned, the burden shifting back to where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of those who may need health care services someday…most of us. Yet despite this tendency, we still spend double any other developed nation on health care. Why do countries paying half as much for health care, measured by public health markers such as infant mortality and longevity, have superior statistics?

I´m an American, living in a developing country, where health care is a right of all citizens. Here we have government funded care, insurance funded care and of course self-pay. Government-funded care is the worst, insurance-funded care is better and self-funded care is the best. This is the reality of the global marketplace. Those who abrogate their responsibilities, entrusting them to third parties, will more often not, have a rude awakening when they try to exercise their rights under such plans.

It´s really quite simple…you get what YOU pay for! Wake up Americans, decide what you want and stop crying because what you have at present, is exactly what you´ve chosen. Stop looking to government, big business and unions to provide your cradle to grave life insurance coverage. They will do so, at a price…the price of slavery! God bless America…