Re: Re: Long-term effects of dependency

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Its already funded. Any rational medical care system that does not want to go broke must be based on evidence based medicine. Without that all is lost to quacks and crooks. Unfortunately MC does not do enough of this IMHO. If they did we would not have so many folks with uncontrolled HTN.CE Grim MDI hate to keep beating this dead horse, but response is necessary. Everyone misses one of the major points of Obamacare. Medicare will have a panel that decides global budgets and rationing based on "evidence based medicine." They're already doing that in the UK. That's what that Berwick guy is so excited to do. The one exciting thing for me right now is that Obamacare will likely never get funded. Val From: hyperaldosteronism [mailto:hyperaldosteronism ] On Behalf Of Clarence Grim Nor do they as far as I can tell. ie govt does not control personal choice with advance directives. If anything gov/hosp tend to want to prolong life when it is not appropriate at least from my point of view. CE Grim MDa, I'm all for advanced directiv es and I think hospice is a wonderful service. We used it a year ago for my MIL. The thing is, advanced directives are personal choice. Hospice is a personal choice. Neither concept should have anything to do with government control. Val From: hyperaldosteronism [mailto:hyperaldosteronism ] On Behalf Of a Hall Respect for life, hmmm.... There needs to also be respect for human dignity. Situations like this can be debated ad nauseum without any one changing their opinion, it's a very personal thing. This is why everyone needs to have Advance Directives drawn up indicating their medical wishes b efore a catastrophic medical occurrence happens. My mother and father-in-law received hospice care before their deaths and I can tell you they perform a much needed survice. In order to be eligible for hospice it must be deemed that a person has a life expectancy of less than 10 months, you can't just put anybody into hospice. Having spend 35+ years in the medical field, I can tell you there are some things worse than death. I've seen them. a