On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:04:12 PDT, [email protected] said: > This is not to be confused with a "Deather", though by and large they are the > same folks. Deathers believe that the effort to reform the US healthcare > system is a veiled effort to euthanize the elderly of America, reasoning (not > to stretch the meaning of the word) that - as happens in such socialist > hell-holes as the UK, Sweden and Canada - once The Guvernment is given > complete > and unquestioned control of healthcare they will choose to deny medicine to > old > people. I believe the theory is that this will endear the ruling party with > the younger voters who will then inherit Grandpa's old slippers.
And to further illustrate just how batshit crazy some people here are - the actual proposal that set the Deathers off was *actually*: That the government-sponsored program should pay for counseling for terminally ill patients, to help write up things like "durable powers of attorney" (which are documents that state what should happen if you're not in any condition to manage your affairs anymore). So terminally people will be able to write a document that says "I know I have pancreatic cancer, and don't have long left, so if I'm in a coma, don't keep me on a respirator, and if I have a heart seizure, don't resuscitate me, just let me go" and avoid the circus that was Terry Schiavo. Of course, these same people feel threatened when the President wants to tell their kids to stay in school, work hard, and get good grades, because if their kids are well-educated, Something Evil will happen. Like the kids might actually start doing some fact-checking and thinking about what their parents say.
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