Congressman Fleming Confirms Mandatory End-Of-Life Consultations in Health Care Bill
Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), a practicing physician who is serving his freshman term in the House, has introduced House Resolution 615 which would oblige any member of Congress voting in favor of a government run health care bill to leave their private insurance plan and join the Democrats’ “public option” catastrophe.
In Fleming’s plan, anyone who votes for the health care reform bill would have to leave their private insurance plan and join the public option plan called for in the bill. Anyone who doesn’t vote for the health care reform bill would not have to leave their private plan (until their private carrier is driven out of existence by the government’s public option plan, of course).
Fleming’s plan is outlined in an article on Human Events (humanevents.com) called Dems Won’t Sign On to ‘Obamacare’. While I found the article and the Congressman’s bill interesting, I found his quotes to be more so. In the article, Fleming said this:
“The bill also requires mandated visits between doctors and elderly patients periodically to discuss end of life,” Fleming continued. “And if you’re in a nursing home, the requirement is even more frequent. That means euthanasia — that we need to be talking to the elderly about the fact that maybe they’re using up more resources and that perhaps they should not use more health care resources and allow younger, healthier people to use that resource money. That’s the kind of savings the President wants to have. As a physician, I am definitely against that.”
“There’s going to be this bureaucracy that is going to determine what procedures and what treatments and what medicines are cost effective,” Fleming said. “It’s going to reward doctors for withholding certain types of care that the government deems to be unnecessary care. Your doctor would be rewarded to provide less care for you and perhaps even remove care from you. As a physician and a potential patient, I am not very happy about that idea either.”
As I said before, the more people begin to look into this colossal health care reform bill, the more we find out how bad it really is. Does anyone think that the program Fleming is talking about is a good idea? I mean, they’re talking about forcing senior citizens to meet with a doctor about how much care they should get before they’re left to die. Can you imagine your grandmother and your parents having to go through this? It’s just disgusting.
