Ellen Goodman Right wing-nuts are all about fear-mongering Ellen Goodman is a nationally syndicated columnist.
I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry. We now have “The Birthers” manufacturing myths that President Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is serving illegally. These products arrive in my inbox faster than I can press “block sender.” They are just following the business plan of those earlier entrepreneurs selling the idea that Obama had killed his grandma. Consider the scare-biz Internet scribe who penned the memorable line: “Obama flies to Hawaii to visit his grandmother and just a few days later she winds up dead. Coincidence?” But now the industry has ratcheted up from accusing Obama of killing his grandma to accusing him of trying to kill your grandma. The campaign of the moment is based on a small provision in the health care bill that would allow Medicare to reimburse doctors for time spent consulting with patients about their end-of-life choices. This modest idea was willfully distorted by people such as Betsy Mc-Caughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York, who said that the bill would “absolutely require” end-of-life counseling that “will tell them how to end their life sooner.” Republican leader John Boehner offered the same flawed product, saying, “This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia.” Their views were also sold by rightwing franchise operators. Laura Ingraham warned that government bureaucrats would “come to an old person’s house” — yeah, house calls! — for scary death chats. Fox News analyst Peter Johnson called it a “kind of our 2009 ‘Brave New World.’” And Randall Terry, the Zelig of the pro-life movement, said this was an attempt to “kill Granny.” Panic is their most important product. The bill doesn’t really mandate anything. It simply assures that a talk about advance care planning will be covered for the patients and families who want it. As Obama told a woman at an AARP forum, “It strikes me that that’s a sensible thing to do.” But who would trust someone who offed his grandma? All in all, Fearmongers Inc. plays on the notion that advance directives are a sneaky way of cutting costs by cutting life short. Well, here’s what we know: One-quarter of all Medicare dollars are spent in the last year of life, much of it in the last month. We don’t know yet whether it will cost less (and how much less) for patients to choose high-quality palliative care. It surely isn’t the cheap fix to the health cost spiral. But we have some other hints. In a study of terminal cancer patients at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, those who had end-of-life conversations spent about one-third less in their last week than those who didn’t. And they had a better quality of life and death. ..................>>>>..................>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00900&AppName=1
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Anyone who doesn't agree, bow or fall in line with the Chosen one is called a "right wing nut" .. now I gotcha.
I'm pleased to be associated with all you "wing nuts"
Well what more could we expect out of the left wing media? And if wanting to make my own choices, and not wanting government in my face, and not telling me how to raise my kids, and what to eat or drive, and not being taxed to death makes me a right-winger......than here I am! PROUDLY!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Ellen Goodman has been a left wing, anti-conservative, tax and spend journalist, since she started writing and anyone who differs in opinion with her is on the radical right.
A good video showing how the SEIU will take down any dissenters. Don't worry about the law, Obama's got your back. We'll turn it around and blame it on the protesters.
The fact that gun owners are racist is common knowledge. That's why we need the OYB (Obama Youth Brigade). Otherwise, the supporters of Obama will be defenseless against these bigots. Once ACORN and Obama are done with the 2010 census and the redistricting Republicans will never win another election in this country. They are finished – confined to the dustbin of history. Ellen talks about the "right wing nuts" but has she checked some of the hate being spewed on the web sites who support Obama.
Here is the problem when it comes to pontificating about all that money spent "in the last year of life" : we DON"T KNOW WHEN SOME ONE WILL DIE AND IF WE DID, WE WOULD BE GOD! Somebody, I am disappointed in you considering you are a Catholic priest. I know the Roman Catholic church in America is a socialist institution and wants to vest God's power in the state, but when did they start determining when a human should die or not?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Haven't you ever read his theological dissertations here? He knows more about Church history and doctrine than the Vatican. I wonder if he just went to the Seminary for a bit. Either way he is a liberation theologian like Hubbard. (i.e. socialist)
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
A pro-abortion Priest? Only in Schenectady County.
Ellen Goodman says? Who cares? A well known ultra liberal that will support every one of neo-Marxist Obama's policies. End of life counseling is in the bill.
Betsy McCaughley is an expert on health issues. She read the entire mess-doubt Obama or Goodman has. Your health care is too important to be left to bumbling governmental bureaucrats. The vast majority is against the KRAT care bill. The KRATS have moved too far left and are reeling in every poll. Is it 2010 yet?
A pro-abortion Priest? Only in Schenectady County.
Ellen Goodman says? Who cares? A well known ultra liberal that will support every one of neo-Marxist Obama's policies. End of life counseling is in the bill.
Betsy McCaughley is an expert on health issues. She read the entire mess-doubt Obama or Goodman has. Your health care is too important to be left to bumbling governmental bureaucrats. The vast majority is against the KRAT care bill. The KRATS have moved too far left and are reeling in every poll. Is it 2010 yet?
Im hardly PRO abortion- I think the question each might want to ask is what would you do if your daughter was pregnant ? - weather she is 15or 50 what would you do ? Kick her out ? Try and get her to understand how stupid she is ? Each and every family is an individual circumstance-
Panic is their most important product. The bill doesn’t really mandate anything. It simply assures that a talk about advance care planning will be covered for the patients and families who want it.
there is NO advance care planning except death......dork.....that would be the almighty HOSPICE....they are qualified and get federal money....
here's a little piece of history....the Egyptians used to pay wailers to be at funerals.....we pay for hospice before we hit the cold slab in the morgue......I believe the Jews used to pay wailers too......depending on how important the person was...
Michael Jackson had a crap load of wailers----and his healthcare was from his own pocket....so will Pelosi/Clinton/Bush/Spears Heffner etc etc......they pay for it themselves.....they can pay for 'edgy' care.....
advance care planning----watch-listen-look-see-hear the elderly parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles etc......KNOW IN ADVANCE....
......WE CANT CHANGE IT------yet........
as for 'covering' advance care planning-----GET OUT OF IT......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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A pro-abortion Priest? Only in Schenectady County.
