Republican patient needs some meds it appears.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

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[spencer-mato.livejournal.com]

It's tragic to me that people are making assumptions about what end of life care is. End of life care is counseling for those who are dying. Studies were done that those who get counseling actually live a little longer and better lives in the last few months than those who don't receive it. Also, most private insurance companies include it in their policies too, so another shitty misdirection by the republicans.

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

mmm ... The bulk of Medicare is spent on the last year or so on the care and such of a person's life usually. So tell me, where do you think Obama is talking about when he says he is gonna cut several billion from Medicare ?

http://www.thirteen.org/bid/sb-howmuch.html

[dwer.livejournal.com]

he's talking about removing inefficiencies in the system. Streamlining paperwork. that sort of thing.

Not that you're interested.

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

Yeah sure and chickens have lips.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

well, you can believe the man elected by the people, or you can believe the racist asshole who called him a liar and was censured for it.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Telling people what it's like for their bodies to be connected to wires and tubes for the last several months of their lives while their brain and organs rot away sufficiently for someone to be able to pronounce them unrevivable, rather than dying naturally and not costing their insurer (Medicare) tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, is where.

[spencer-mato.livejournal.com]

Shit, my boyfriend has a DNR on his life and he's only 20. Sometimes you'll come back worse with brain issues and such. Much better to slip away comfortably at home instead of being hooked up to machines constantly for a few months. I think that's how my grandpa did it with his cancer. And I'm sure my grandmother is going to do it just the same(but that's because she's a stubborn old lady).

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Medicare didn't cover a lot of the at home expenses for my mum when she got sick (e.g. such as nurse that would come by and visit her three times a week to dose meds, etc). I don't know if they've changed the policies since this happened (1998), but I thought it odd, since at home care was a lot cheaper than assisted living facilities.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember some talk of changes in at-home care policy. One of the few good things that got done under the Bush administration, I think. I could be talking out my ass of course.