Limbaugh on "rumor" that "older citizens will just be put out to pasture": "Obamacare plan contains ... end of life"
July 30, 2009 1:22 pm ET
From the July 30 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Need I say more?
BTW, what's with the playback of BHO?
So Limpballs gets the best of a number of worlds: he's treating the President with a signature lack of respect, he's distorting what the President is saying, but he's not "taking it out of context."
He probably thinks it's clever and, for his Limmings, it probably is. For a rational person, not so much.
Is there end of life counseling in the bill? Yes. It provides an opportunity to begin planning for a person's death. Death is inevitable, so some planning is perhaps not the most foolish thing ever. Tell me, Mr. Limbaugh, do you also rant and rail against people who sell prepackaged funeral plans? That's also 'end of life' counseling, or are you too dim or too hypocritical to realize this?
At the present time, as far as I know, and definitely 20 years ago yesterday, when my father died, enrollment in a hospice program required a recognition that the end was near, and an acceptance of that fact, with a rejection of heroic measures to prolong life, and a reliance on palliative care. This was not a government program.
And another thing that the fat man refuses to recognize is that the decision to enter a hospice program is voluntary. And once the choice is made, it's reversible.
Another thing that many people don't realize is that as far as insurance plans go, sometimes, a better level of care is authorized. As my first wife was dying, our insurance company would not pay for in home nursing. Our local visiting nurse association recommended my wife enter their hospice program and then she was approved for in home nursing care for a few hours a day.
I get angry when I hear these cretins talk about hospice like it's something from a horror movie. Especially since I've seen hospice work. If helped not only my wife, but our entire family.
Believe it or not, a few years later, I married a hospice nurse who also lost her spouse. I'm so proud of her and her co-workers for the work they do to ease suffering for patients and their loved ones.
First, the absolutely disrespectful way in which he airs the Presidents' responses is a tasteless tactic to make Obama look stupid. Secondly (and had you not actually watched the meeting and seen this response in its entirety) Rush ALWAYS truncates the clip and then "explains" what either the Pres. is trying to say or what the bill itself says (as though we are to believe that he has actually read ANY of what he's talking about). These tactics are tired...and only work on those either lack sufficient intelligence to see through them, or on those who already believe as Rush does, and are simply looking for an excuse to justify themselves. Any idiot knows (or COULD know with a 3rd grade reading comprehension) that the clause in the proposed bill to which he refers does not mandate an end-of-life consultation. To paraphrase: the clause simply says that if... IF a patient so chooses, they can (no more than once in any 5-year period) receive a consultation to discuss and determine their own wishes for end-of-life and/or emergency care life saving measures.
I don't know why I waste my energy--the idiots who keep pushing this LIE know the truth...they do. They're just banking on the same old tired scare tactics and media buzz-words and general ignorance to get what they want--the continued favor of their corporate masters and the failure of those 'damned liberals' and their Muslim/illegal alien/socialist/communist President....
WHY DO THEY HATE PEOPLE HAVING GOOD INFORMATION AND KNOWING WHAT THEIR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS ARE??!!
It must be so nice to
(1) have so much money that you can wave a hand, and hire someone to 'take care of it all'
and
(2) have so little responsability in your life (3 x-wives and no kids or family) that you don't even need to worry, or care what happens to your estate when you die.
These people are such scumbags. Why does anyone in their right money listen these lying, no-talent, @$$-clowns?
Horrible isn't it.
Scum-sucking bastards these crackpots are.
Who would have thought that 7 months into his term as President that many GOP talking heads would be on TV and radio still saying that Obama isn't even a natural born citizen of our country?
I know that it's off topic but can you imagine how these people would act if one of President Obama's daughters were to get pregnant at the exact same age as Sarah Palin's daughter did? Yet many in the GOP love this woman that quit on the people in Alaska that voted for her.
I seem to remember that during the Bush years if you said anything against the president that you were called out for being un-American. You'd hear things like you can't talk that way about the president when we're at war! Now that the GOP is no longer in power they're acting like spoiled little children and they're pitching a fit daily.
Rant over...sorry.