Following the June 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the new healthcare law, the Center to Advance Palliative Care issued this statement:
The Center to Advance Palliative Care is pleased that the Affordable Care Act, with its aims to expand access to quality healthcare for all Americans, will continue to positively affect healthcare delivery in the United States. With increased access to care, and the development of enhanced quality measures, more seriously ill patients and families will receive the high quality, effective care they need to reduce suffering and live longer, healthier lives. This benefit is of the utmost importance to CAPC and the field of palliative care, as the patients we treat are the sickest, most vulnerable people in our nation’s healthcare system.A 2009 article, Obamacare: Stimulus for estate abuse?, described how disgruntled family members, wannabe heirs or unscrupulous members of the legal industry will find Obamacare helpful with Involuntary Redistribution of Assets (IRA) actions in which probate venues or instruments like wills, trusts, guardianships and powers of attorney are used to divert assets from intended heirs or beneficiaries. Palliative care was also discussed:
Palliative care, a common end-of-life care component, is defined as any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing disease symptom severity rather than striving to halt, delay, or reverse progression of the disease itself or provide a cure. The goal is to prevent and relieve suffering and to improve quality of life for people facing serious, complex illness. While used with aggressive treatment, it is also a common alternative for patients who decline prolonged, expensive efforts. Performed under the guise of government-run health care, it’s likely to become a mandated, state-sponsored doping of sick Americans deemed unsuitable for proactive medical treatment.
Elder financial abuse is frequently termed the crime of the 21st century. Estate looting and other probate abuse often fall into this category. Estate disputes frequently include allegations of undue influence with the role of medication being a common point of contention. If palliative care becomes a major tool in the government’s arsenal of health care cost-cutting measures, predators will seize this opportunity.
These concerns are now bolstered as CNS News reports how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is “soliciting applications for federal grants worth up to $275,000 to research ways to provide elderly patients with ‘palliative care’ – even in hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units.”
The article explains:
Palliative care is commonly understood to mean medical treatment that focuses on relieving symptoms, including pain, instead of trying to treat or cure the underlying disease.
But researchers will not be studying the use of palliative care to relieve the suffering of dying patients. “Hospice and end-of-life settings are not included within the scope” of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the grant notices specifically state.
Instead, they will be looking at new ways to provide elderly patients with palliative care long before they are at death’s door.
The palliative care will be provided in “a variety of settings, including ambulatory care, hospitals (and specific sites within hospitals including specialty wards, intensive care units and emergency departments), assisted living facilities, and short- and long-term care facilities.”
The federal money will be used to “advance [the] science of geriatric palliative care… in settings and at time points earlier in geriatric patients’ diseases or disability trajectories,” according to the grant notices (PA-13-354, 355 & 356).
One of the grants is categorized under NIH’s R21 Exploratory/Developmental grants, defined on the agency’s website as “novel studies that break new ground or extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications.”“Isolate, medicate, steal the estate” is a phrase commonly associated with IRA acts. The medicate phase offers great opportunity for the use of undue influence that can lead to late-in-life and uncharacteristic estate plan changes. Abandoning proactive medical treatments to artificially incapacitate our seniors in the name of “palliative care” will aid unscrupulous individuals in estate hijacking pursuits. Similar concerns can be raised for the disabled or younger people with terminal illness or life-threatening injuries – especially individuals attached to a significant estate as legal settlements can provide.
The Obama administration and other congressional leaders claim this new system will be better for all Americans. The federal government wants us to trust it with a plan forcing a majority of Americans to forfeit a flawed, but functioning health care system in pursuit of a plan that already is driving up insurance costs, failing to attract the young, healthy people on who its premium structure is based and prompting a move of workers to the plan as employers drop increasingly-expensive coverage.
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ACA palliative care provisions open new door for probate, property rights abuse
How many steps away from euthanasia?
ReplyDeleteI agree. I hope there's a group like NASGA watching hospice.
ReplyDeleteThe Center to Advance Palliative Care's statement is quoted here as follows "the patients we treat are the sickest, most vulnerable people in our nation’s healthcare system". What is this Center doing to prevent these patients from being taken advantage of by lawyers and others, as was my dad while he was on a morphine drip and under a DNR order just hours before he died from cancer? For example, what effort is the Center making to establish a practical mechanism like that which I've described that would routinely trigger a timely alert to law enforcement and others under such circumstances? With this in mind, I would greatly appreciate it if those who read this comment would call and ask the Center's Director, Dr. Diane E. Meier (212/201-2673), to call me (Tom Fields, 440/255-7693) so as to follow-up the e-mail which I sent her assistant Amy Chou (amy.chou@mssm.edu) after Amy and I spoke on 10/14. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteSee my comment for Belgium's manner of killing off children who do not measure up my comment fits here. I am HORRIFIED at the brainwashing, motive and intent but I know death panels already exist especially if you have: MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS remember DisAdvantage for the enrollee and $$$$ Advantage for the insurance company.
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Here is my comment related to Belgium:
This is so shocking OMG no words to express my first thoughts except God is crying.
I will say this BEWARE this is an example of government messages to change the moral character, mindset of their citizens to accept murdering those who do not measure up.
This is happening in USA and I imagine other countries to the adults especially those under the control of guardianships.
Is there a financial gain? YES YES YES so stay healthy and productive adding $ to the system when you are no longer able and God forbid you are on Medicare and a recipient of Social Security when you are now taking from the system best to have your own exit strategy in place before someone else including a stranger in the protection industry makes that decision for you.
Social Security is in trouble one of the ways to add money is to save money by ELIMINATING THE RECIPIENT.
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Beware of hospice. Be very aware of everything they do. It's become a big business and many are in it for the money.
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