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Let others know about this vital information! Introduction There are numerous books about the history of euthanasia and eugenics proposals in our society.

This book is not one of those. It offers a rare glimpse from my experience within the end-of-life industry, my work as a patient advocate, and includes the revelations of hundreds and hundreds of people as they have recounted it to me. This book explains how we got where we are today and provides statements by many of our nation's leaders in health care, government and patient advocacy, that taken altogether form the pieces of the puzzle that reveal what has been hidden from the American public for decades: stealth euthanasia is being practiced throughout the United States and elsewhere.

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I have many friends within the hospice industry who confirm what I recount here in this book, so I urge you to read through to the very end, as you have never heard all that I am about to share with you. Some of it may surprise and shock you. Some of it will trouble you, but all of it will affect what happens to you, your family and our society in the days to come. This is the story of the intentionally 'below-the-radar' changes that have been aggressively pursued in our society for decades. Because these changes are not covered by the major media in any coherent, connected way, or at all, the public has difficulty 'putting a finger' on what is happening and why. They see changes here and there as situations arise in their lives, especially in health care.

They hear stories about what is happening and mistakenly assume they are isolated incidents. Sometimes, they just can't believe the changes that have already been made.

They seem so 'foreign' to what American society is all about, and the reason they seem 'foreign' is they do not arise from American Constitutional values. Some people are frightened by these changes, changes that seem to be imposed upon society without the approval of the majority of citizens. They question the wisdom of abandoning the traditional values that formed the foundation for American life. They question the declining percentages of Americans who support the traditional value of a family (husband, wife and children), marriage (husband and wife), sanctity of life, faith in God, the value of work and the opportunity to get ahead in a free society. They wonder how we have strayed so far.

They question whether we are still truly free to express our religious faith in a public setting, or even whether the dedication to 'do no harm' within health care is the prevailing mindset. Shockingly, often it is not. If you want to know what all that 'death panel' talk is really all about, this is the book that explains exactly what is going on and will be going on. There are no formal 'death panels,' but there are bureaucrats in government, HMOs, and private health insurance companies whose decisions knowingly result in denied tests, denied treatments and certain death in many cases. This has been well-documented. However, when the federal government becomes the big HMO itself, test and treatment denials will be the equivalent of death sentences for some, even many. The new health care reform law creates several methods that are likely to result in rationed care.

For example, the 'Independent Payment Advisory Board' ('IPAB') is supposedly not allowed to make recommendations that directly result in rationing care, but it can exert overwhelming pressure on providers by reducing how much they get paid to provide a service. Politicians say, 'we are not going to ration care.' But they will set in motion many processes that reduce reimbursement under the guise of 'limiting expenditures,' or 'keeping costs down,' and these processes will result in rationing care. Ultimately, many services will simply not be provided, because physicians, hospitals, and others cannot afford to provide them at the steadily determined by the bureaucrats who run Medicare, Medicaid and other government-controlled health services. Those on Medicare and Medicaid are already on a government-run plan and are experiencing the effects of decisions made by unelected bureaucrats in Washington, DC. We need to remember that Medicare passed into law in 1965 and is nominally a 'voluntary' program.

However, to assure participation by all seniors, then President Lyndon Johnson pressured all private health insurers to cancel all policies available to seniors. If seniors want to completely opt-out of Medicare, they have to their Social Security benefits and then pay privately for all services they receive.

Only the very wealthy can do that. Since there is no private health insurance available for seniors in the United States, we cannot say that participation in Medicare is truly voluntary.

Seniors must accept whatever those running Medicare decide regarding their treatment options. Certainly, there are many who would have no health coverage without Medicare, and millions have benefited from the program.

Many seniors are comfortable with Medicare the way it has been up to the present time. What needs to be recognized is that changes are coming no matter what political party or agenda controls those changes, with or without the new health care reform law. One political party will accuse the other of threatening the well-being of senior citizens and vice-versa. But both will silently promote the stealth euthanasia already begun in this nation. The generous benefits of Medicare over the past are going to be phased out selectively to streamline the program and make it more 'efficient.' The idea that the future Medicare will be like what we've had till now is quite mistaken and those that trust in the promises being made by either party need to wake up to the realities. Former Federal Reserve Chairman, ' telling America's aging population that its entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will survive without significant changes is dishonest.'

The debate about the health care reform law or other proposals are important, but like some demonstrations of illusion and 'magic,' you never see what's really happening. Misdirection and skill fool all except those trained in the art. While we focus on the public debate, drastic changes are being made quietly without fanfare. All while the number of Medicare patients will grow exponentially. Isn't it obvious what is happening?

The health care reform law () has already modified how Medicare will be run. Under Section 3021, 'Establishment of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation,' the Secretary of HHS 'shall adjust the payments made to an eligible safety net hospital system or network from a fee-for-service payment structure to a global capitated payment model.' [H.R.3590 p.205] Going from a Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement system that pays fees for each service provided to a system that has a cap on payments made for all services provided to a patient is one of the most significant changes to Medicare ever made and will certainly result in drastic changes. Just think about how hospitals will change what tests, surgeries and treatments they provide if they know the amount they will be paid is capped for each patient they serve! And if the patient has already used up the cap amount, do you think the hospital will continue to provide services for free? In addition, once the government takes over management of our nation's entire health care system under H.R.

3590, as it already has in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, it acquires control over how care is delivered, what care is available, and who receives that care or not. It controls how much the providers are paid, and by deciding to pay providers less than service costs and capping total costs paid out, it is driving some physicians to and will discourage the young from entering the field. Some hospitals will close their doors, reducing the total number of hospital beds available to those in the community. On average, physicians train until they're close to 30 years old, graduate with $150,000 to $250,000 in debt for their education, and are subject to being sued on any given day.

When the nation's supply of physicians lags behind the growing elderly population and hospitals have to serve that increasing number of patients, health care services will certainly be limited. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges. 'America will face a.' There is no question that, in order to keep health care costs down, patients will see more physician-assistants and nurse practitioners providing primary care. Actually getting to see the physician will become increasingly difficult over time. For example, 'employment of physician assistants is expected to from 2008 to 2018.'

To cut costs even more, if a patient is chronically ill, with more than one diagnosis, or very elderly, and enters the hospital more than once, that patient will likely be referred for hospice or palliative care services to prevent more costly acute care hospital admissions. You may not realize this, but leaders in government of both political parties are promoting palliative and hospice care as the destination, your destination. The end of the road in a patient's health care journey. There is no need for something to be called a 'death panel.' Rationed care will result in destabilization and consequent death for many of the chronically ill, elderly and disabled. Interventions and treatment options, as well as denials, can be manipulated so that death is made to happen.

There is no one place to point the finger and say, 'he' alone is responsible, or 'that group' or 'that government department' alone is responsible. It is much more sophisticated and complicated than that. There are webs and webs of interconnected efforts that have resulted in a massive wave sweeping over our land, something that has not happened overnight, though it may seem so. It's been coming for over seventy years. Americans have been quietly 'asleep' while those who have made war on American values achieved success after success. We don't want to think about 'death and dying' even if some have been shouting the 'death and dying' talk from the rooftops.

There have been thousands of news articles and speakers all across the country promoting the wonders of end-of-life care, and there is much good that can be done when dedicated professionals make their best effort to relieve suffering at the end-of-life. However, there are some who have dedicated their lives to move American society away from its traditional values, and they have not been asleep. They've been very busy for over seventy years working in the background, training others and teaching in the universities, arranging to have their ideas inserted into public school curricula. They've written sections of textbook after textbook or controlled the slant of content used to train physicians, nurses, other health care professionals, attorneys, and therefore some of the justices who eventually serve on the courts, until they have succeeded in changing how the powerful-to-be think and act.

How they view the world from deep within. And now the indoctrinated are the powerful. They've even gotten rid of the Hippocratic Oath for graduating physicians in most medical schools (contrary to what we Americans assume). They are accomplishing the last acts of their grand project: changing completely how Americans die and how Americans view death and dying.

When physicians, attorneys and judges as well as other leaders of our society no longer affirm the sanctity of life, and when leaders within health care no longer pledge to 'do no harm,' there is no obstacle to the devaluation of selected lives and the discarding of those lives. Before the advent of widely available hospice services in the 1980s, most Americans died in acute care hospitals in a 'medicalized' environment where death, just like birth, was reserved for doctors and nurses. It was hidden from view, something that otherwise has been quite unusual over the course of human history. The modern hospice movement with its openness to caring for the dying with family present, with its recognition of the opportunity for healing in family relationships at the end-of-life, and its focus on working to do a better job at pain and symptom management has been a wonderful thing. It incorporated the very best of the latest medical advances in symptom management with a more natural atmosphere for those facing death. But this positive step has been negated in many segments of the industry due to financial or utilitarian concerns. Although many of us would like to think otherwise, there has always been a side of American society that has had a utilitarian streak.

We will explore how this has affected health care and especially end-of-life care as well as what it means for you. There has been a very slick, sophisticated and well-financed campaign to completely twist the positive contributions of hospice into something the public would never openly accept. Because most people in our modern society do not have the background or experience within the health-care industry, they don't have the information to understand what is really planned for us when it comes to health care reform or entitlement reform. And many of those who work within health care still do not know about many of the changes that have been put in place within the end-of-life care industry.

Even among those who work in hospice or palliative care, most do not know the history of the industry and who is directing its continuing development. This book contains the essentials needed to truly understand the monumental changes being planned for our society and how it is being accomplished in our time. The issues discussed in this book will affect American society whether the health care reform law is upheld, on, repealed or not, or by some of the states. How health care is provided to the elderly and disabled is being modified, significantly.

Efforts to make Medicare and Medicaid services more efficient and less costly will affect many, and the changes made are not being made solely to make them more efficient. There is something else going on.

Many worry that a government-run health care system will do away with the freedom to choose one's own physician, treatment center or treatment. Others have noted that some physicians are 'opting out' of Medicare and Medicaid protesting that the reimbursement is often lower than the costs of providing services. ' and patients may increasingly find that being treated by physicians in private, small practice settings may be a thing of the past.'

Many wonder if patients will be able to find the care they need or if they will have to wait months to get to see the doctor or have a needed surgery. With the budgetary pressures on our nation, many worry how this will impact end-of-life care for the vulnerable. Through the years, many people have called the Hospice Patients Alliance (and many other patient advocacy organizations), pleading for help, reporting problems they have encountered, like the failure of the hospice agency to provide services as needed, reporting that the staff prevented them from giving food or liquids to their loved one when he or she could still take them in and benefit. They sometimes report that their loved one was literally killed in a health care setting. I've listened and carefully thought about the depth of the problems.

Through the years, the accounts given by these family members are eerily similar. When family members recount what hospice staff said to them, the language and phrases used sometimes are exactly the same, the actions taken exactly the same, the outcome exactly the same. The staff at different agencies across the country are being trained in the same way, and the actions taken were quite contrary to what the patient and family expected. The services and treatment provided are not what the American people have come to expect from hospice. Those who report to us are not uneducated in the ways of medicine and health care. Many of those who call in are themselves physicians, nurses, social workers, ministers and lawyers.

Yet, even with their training, some are unable to resolve problems encountered or to even prevent the hastened death of their own family member. Those who are quite familiar with the standards of care in health care are often surprised at the wanton disregard for adherence to the standards by some hospice agencies and staff.

They often cannot believe that the violation of the standards could ever be so knowingly and willingly done. This is not to say that all hospice and palliative care units violate standards. Certainly not! But, there are too many that do, and there is a reason for it. There is a reason why government regulators surprisingly do nothing about it as well. Hospice Patients Alliance's outreach to the public was designed to bypass the media censorship and that's how we have continued to work, to get information out to the people directly and to work individually with them as problems arise. Our website has had millions of visitors through the years.

Those who need information are getting it because of what we provide. It is strange that of the thousands of websites maintained by all the hospice agencies, ours is the only one that has all the standards of care and laws set out for the public to access easily, along with easily understood explanations of what should be expected.

Yet, it simply confirms what I noticed back in 1998: there was no place for the public to get complete information about what is going on in hospice and palliative care, what the standards of care are, what to do when problems arise, and what others are experiencing in this largely unregulated niche of health care. Except for our organization, there still is no place for the public to get complete access to the standards of care with easily understood explanations, honest information about what problems do exist, and what can be done about them.

Why should the realities be hidden from the patients and families that end up using these services? With about 40% of all American deaths now occurring in hospice, the public certainly has a right to know! Why do the media's editors censor the truth so people are repeatedly blind-sided and taken by surprise when their loved one is medically killed in a hospice, hospital or nursing home? I know that if you've had a positive experience with hospice and palliative care, you may be shocked and upset to read this, but just because you had a positive experience does not mean that all others will as well. You might conclude that I am against hospice and palliative care, but that would be completely untrue. I care very much about the field of end-of-life care and have the greatest respect for those who work in this field and dedicate themselves to relieve suffering while allowing a death in its own natural timing.

We've worked hard to encourage the highest standards in end-of-life care and have worked with many in the field through the years. Yet, we believe that it's important for the public to know the hidden truth about end-of-life care as well, because each of us will be confronted with these issues sooner or later. Whether you are a person of faith, an agnostic or atheist, this book provides a rare glimpse of the realities of health care in America that you will find nowhere else. There is much material here that you do need to know so you can see exactly what is happening, how it is happening, when it started and why.

There is a lot of material covered, but bear with me and read on, because this book explains why you have not been informed about the hidden realities in the industry, why the major media is censoring one of the most important stories of our time, and why the realities of end-of-life care are not what the media portrays them to be. This book is our way of reaching out to the public directly, bypassing the big media censorship, the government's silent complicity, and the industry's own deception. Our nation was founded upon principles that many of us still hold dear.

It is true that some ridicule these principles. Such as a right to life, free speech (which is not limited to 'politically correct' speech) and freedom from an overbearing and oppressive government. Some are rejoicing that a socialized health care system may be implemented, while others are absolutely horrified. While there are court challenges to the health reform law, changes are being implemented anyway.

No law is required for government administrators to modify some of Medicare and Medicaid's internal administrative rules. The Centers for Medicare Services already has authority to change many things. With the threat of drastic changes in private health insurance, some private insurance companies may go. Other insurers are making changes that drastically affect how they do business, and as the trend continues, many changes will be irreversible. By the time some of you read this, the high court may have already ruled, however, businesses around the country have been scrambling to try to comply with the regulations of a law that will comprise thousands of pages with all the administrative regulations included.

Small businesses don't know what to do and must consult attorneys, tax accountants, and other experts to plan what to do, further bogging down productivity and economic recovery. Same thing for large corporations. The uncertainty of 'what the federal government will do' is like a cloud over every business in America.

The certainty of changes already made is depressing business as well. With economic pressures mounting, completely out-of-control in a manner never before witnessed in America, and international leaders urging that the world as the world's, citizens worry that our nation is spiraling out of control and that our basic way of life is seriously threatened. It clearly is! We live in especially 'historic times,' I tell my son. And, 'there has never been anything similar in American history.' We pray that our beautiful and inspiring American experiment in representative democracy will find its way back to the values that allowed it to create and maintain a stable and free society. When what our elected leaders have done through the years to endanger our nation's economic security is fully known, Bernie Madoff (the convicted Ponzi scheme investment leader) will seem like a saint.

Our national trade, tax and regulatory policies have decimated the manufacturing base in this country, sent jobs and corporations overseas, and made us debtors to the world. A once proud nation is imperiled, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and the health and economic well-being of its citizens is imperiled with it. Nations are discussing returning to a, rather than the American dollar being the global reserve currency. Even if the gold standard is not adopted, simply downgrading the U.S.

Dollar and 'removing America's 'AAA' status would make it more expensive for the world's largest economy [the U.S.] to borrow money on the international money markets. On Aug 5, 2011 Standard & Poor.' And yes, that means cuts in health care spending of all sorts. Threats of terrorist attacks on our people are taken very seriously, but nobody really knows what to do to stop them. We must trust the government to protect us; that is what the government is supposed to do. But when the government itself makes changes that are inconsistent with our values and Constitutional freedoms, the people become alarmed, awakened and move to block those changes and re-assert the foundational freedoms of our nation.

That is the beauty of our nation's regularly and freely held elections When it comes to health care, there are numerous arguments about what solution can be found for the problems of rapidly rising costs, people who can't access care, and how best to distribute tax dollars for health care. Those of us who are focused on health care hear about 'evidenced-based medicine,' but in the major media there is little or no discussion of the potential misuse of evidence-based medicine. We hear about 'comparative effectiveness research,' but in the major media there is little or no discussion of the potential misuse of 'comparative effectiveness research.' We hear about the 'complete lives system' of leading national health care advisors, as well as the rationing of health care, but the major media reports downplay any concerns being raised. Why have we not had an open dialog about the benefits of, or problems with, the ideas that are changing the way health care will be delivered?

Why do most people have no idea what these three concepts involve and how they will dramatically affect their lives and those they love? Evidence-Based medicine is: 'the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.' [ Duke Univ Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill - Dr. David Sackett, a pioneer in evidence-based practice, 1996] Probably most physicians today want their decisions to reflect the latest medical science and the evidence. It makes sense. But anyone who knows anything about medical studies knows that different studies result in different outcomes and conclusions.

The design of the studies, the number of subjects, the controls used, and so many other factors effect what conclusions are reached. Sometimes, if you want a certain result, you can be sure to get it if you design the study just so. In fact, there are well-respected physicians debating the whole idea of 'evidence-based medicine. A November 2008 seminar was entitled, ' with leading physicians, bioethicists and professors of philosophy debating the pros and cons of this whole field of endeavor. Topics included: 'What's right and what's wrong with evidence-based medicine?' 'What is the role of clinical research evidence in medical practice?' And 'What is the patient's role in medical decision-making?'

If evidence-based medicine is used to ration care and decide what treatments are offered citizens under Medicare, Medicaid or a possible national health system, who decides what evidence and what studies are used? Who decides what the conclusions should be? Will the physician and patient decide or will a bureaucrat somewhere in the government, a PPO, HMO or other managed care company decide? When it comes to the care of the elderly, disabled and chronically ill, many questions remain.

Even among those who respect and value life, there is a lack of information about what is going on in the end-of-life care arena, what the hospice leadership is doing, what the successor organizations of the Euthanasia Society Of America are doing, who the major players are and how they operate. I'm sorry to say that many leaders of the culture of life, pro-lifers, have no idea what is going on, really, even if many of them think they do. They have been misinformed or intentionally kept in the dark completely. I realize that may offend some, but our role is to serve and inform and provide complete information so that citizens can influence the course of our nation knowing all that is at stake.

Many supporters of the sanctity of life simply do not know how deep this all goes and how successful the heirs of the original Euthanasia Society of America have been in our nation. They do not know how the Euthanasia Society is connected with the largest segment of the hospice industry in America, and when some have finally understood it, they have been shocked. Most of those who affirm the sanctity of life view hospice as the and assisted suicide; they would be correct in some cases, but wrong in many others! Those who affirm the value of each life have been outmaneuvered by those who hold a utilitarian worldview, and when some of them encounter a hospice that does not respect the sanctity of life and hurries death along, they realize bitterly that they have been betrayed.

Did you know that the largest hospice organization in our nation is the successor organization to the Euthanasia Society of America? Did you know that according to the most prominent hospice leaders in the world, many hospices in the United States today have no reservations about hastening death through a method called 'terminal sedation,' (also 'palliative sedation' or 'total sedation')? Did you know that the governing hospice are far fewer in number than those protecting patients in nursing homes or hospitals, or that state agencies inspect hospices less frequently than nursing homes or hospitals? Did you know some hospices may go years without being inspected at all?

Did you know that because of the HIPAA privacy regulations, nobody interested in researching what is actually going on in hospice can get access to the data, so hospices that have an agenda can act without any outside interference or supervision? This is how Robin Love's who was not terminal was hauled off to hospice, deprived of food and water and was given large doses of morphine and sedatives. He died shortly thereafter. Wendy Ludwig, RN reports that a Catholic priest she knew was as well. Some hospices have gone eight years without ever being inspected, except for the initial inspection when they opened their doors! What the public thinks about hospice is a carefully constructed image.

In some cases, that image is fulfilled in practice, but sad to say, in many cases, it is not. We have reports of young infants being hastened to their death in because they didn't die 'soon enough!' You could say that our society has been manipulated, maneuvered, even 'conditioned' to think in ways that are completely contrary to the way Americans thought for the past two centuries. And millions and millions of dollars have been spent to achieve this. The proverbial example of the frog in the pot of water applies here.

Although there is debate about what really happens, if you put the frog in lukewarm water, he won't jump out. If you put him in hot water (not boiling), he will jump out, and will definitely notice that he's in 'hot water.' Our society is like that. Slowly, but surely, the 'temperature' has been 'turned up' toward 'culture of death' thinking and we don't even notice how 'hot' it is anymore. You may be surprised but today, many people have adopted the 'quality of life' ethic where it's 'ok' to end someone's life because they are ' seriously disabled,' ' very elderly,' have dementia or any number of other reasons. In a very real sense, many of us have become numb to the killings so that we accept an increasingly larger category of lives that may be ended in a medical setting. And many times, we don't call them 'killings.'

We say, 'We let him go.' 'It was time.' And to 'let go' is certainly appropriate when someone is truly at the end-of-life, but when someone is not imminently dying and they end up dead, it really is a 'medical killing.'

If there were no medical murders, books like (by John Field, PhD; where over 50 cases of nurse killers from around the world are discussed) would not be written. That book is about the sensational cases that leaked out into the media and the killer nurses were apprehended and convicted. Articles like, ' would not exist.

Stealth Euthanasia: Health Care Tyranny in America is about the policies and actions that result in imposed death and are not leaked out into the media and are given the government's complete stamp of approval: death on demand, or 'stealth euthanasia.' In stealth euthanasia, policymakers, nurses, doctors and others, whose actions or decisions cause death, are not apprehended and they certainly are not prosecuted. Not so very long ago when sanctity of life was the mainstream ethic for our society, we recognized that we are here to care for each other, not to kill each other.

Now promote hospice as the 'other way' to make someone die on demand. Bobby Schindler, Jr., Terri Schiavo's brother, reminds us all when he says, 'Terri and others like her should be a constant reminder to all of us that caring for the disabled is never a burden, but is instead an act of God's unconditional love.' [',' by Bobby Schindler March 30, 2007] We've been conditioned to think otherwise. We've been conditioned to think that caring for the disabled is an exercise in foolishness, that the disabled and very elderly are 'better off dead.'

Over and over, we hear stories about the suffering of the disabled who are dependent on others, but rarely do we hear about the loving interaction between the disabled and those around them who care for them. We hear less and less about the blessings that come to those who serve and care for the severely disabled and dependent, the changes brought about in those who serve, or the blessings to those who are served. Whether openly conveyed or subliminally imprinted upon us, the message for decades has increasingly been, 'let them die,' they are 'better off dead,' 'let go,' 'kill them.' The message may not be conveyed openly in those words, but that's the message. From health care facility staff, newspaper articles, TV shows or wildly successful movies like ' (about the woman boxer who becomes a quadriplegic and wants to be killed) or the highly successful television series, 'House.' The show's main character Dr. House is portrayed as an obnoxious, arrogant, but strangely likable genius who serves as a platform for promoting the quintessential secular bioethical view; he is a skeptic and a utilitarian who ridicules people of faith, denies God and casually approves abortion and euthanasia.

He exalts in his own intelligence without giving credit to anyone else for his abilities. The secular devaluation of life pervades our society and its messengers are getting shriller and less tolerant of other views each day. The major media outlets do promote hastened death in many ways.

Our society is almost 'schizophrenic' when it comes to how it approaches these issues. On the one hand, almost everybody openly praises the Special Olympics, and applauded how actor Christopher Reeve fought to regain function through rehabilitation therapy after he became a quadriplegic due to a horseback riding accident. Yet, there are many who would say that Reeve should have committed assisted-suicide or that those competing in the Special Olympics should never have been born! Killing a congenitally disabled baby before birth is applauded as the 'right decision' by leaders and especially many doctors in our society. While under existing law, killing a baby a few days after birth is technically still a homicide, many in our society view the killing of a severely disabled baby or child, or a very elderly disabled person, as a 'mercy killing.' We have organizations like Final Exit Network with its euthanasia proponents selling ' and other devices for people to kill themselves, and promoting the 'right-to-die.' In 2011 they started putting up all over the country with the message, 'My Life.

Many praise those who care for the disabled but hide their wish that many of the disabled not be alive at all. Health care reform, whether implemented through the new law or through changes to Medicare and Medicaid, will bring rationing of treatment in that spirit.

It will have life-changing and, and we will see exactly how. Many disability advocates favor government-provided health care, universal health care, but like pro-lifers looking to hospice for an alternative to euthanasia, they will be disappointed when the government uses a heavy hand to limit expenditures for the disabled, elderly and chronically-ill. We can get a taste of what is coming by looking at the United Kingdom's socialized where the disability rights group, 'Scope, found that prematurely' if assisted-suicide is legalized there.

Anyone who has read the book,, by Harper Lee, knows it is a modern classic dealing with race relations. It portrays the struggle of attorney Atticus Finch who heroically defends a falsely-accused black man in a racist society. Yet, there is a parallel theme considering the societal attitudes toward the mentally-ill or disabled. The mentally-ill but good-hearted character, Boo Radley, shuns any public interaction, but manages to watch over and save Atticus' children from harm.

Author Harper Lee that Atticus is a model for Christian honor and conduct who treats the town recluse Boo Radley with kindness and gentleness. Her message is that we all do the same. People like Atticus Finch still exist, however there are some today who are less tolerant of the mentally-ill. Some view the mentally-ill as less than fully human and less worthy to even be here. Members of our society are quite divided in how they regard the disabled, the mentally-impaired or ill, and about how they should be treated.

Not all would look upon Boo Radley with the same loving-kindness of an Atticus Finch. The vulnerable are among us, but are often not so visible.

I have written this to help us remember what it means to be a humane society, to save the vulnerable and re-establish a just society, to make a difference in your life and the lives of your friends and family. If it is not shared widely with others, then it will not have satisfied my goal to alert people throughout our nation. We are distributing this book online for free so that all can benefit from the information being shared, and our hope is that the book or links to it will be re-distributed virally by email throughout your own circle, posted on your own websites, social-networking sites, blogs, or printed out and shared with those who do not have access to the internet. Some tell me that people won't appreciate this book if we give it away. Some tell me that I should not mention much about abortion ('it's too controversial') or have too many religious quotes in here ('people will get turned off'), and I've thought, 'well, they're right, some people won't appreciate this because it's free.

And some people won't read this because I have faith and share it a little here and. And some say I should leave the controversial abortion topic till later in the text.

But I've thought about it and the material is presented in the context of how changes arose in the United States historically which makes the most sense if you truly wish to understand how we got to where we are today and where we really are today. I can't promise to please all the people, and I know if it's the truth, it will really offend some. Some people oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide yet approve of abortion. It seems that I can't help offending some.

I have to 'call it the way I see it.' Take what you can from it, and leave the rest, as they say. I do promise to give you the truth, and give it freely as the dear Lord has given so much to me. I never set out to be where I am today, sharing this information which is so troubling to me and so many others. I just couldn't turn away and say 'no' to those who were and are now suffering. I knew that I had to do something, and this book is part of that effort.

There is no question about the direction our nation's health care is being taken. Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, who our President appointed Health Advisor, promotes the 'Complete Lives System' that is being implemented to ration care. Donald Berwick, who our President appointed administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is a strong proponent of Comparative Effectiveness Research which will also be used to ration care. Under the new law, 'Accountable Care Organizations' are set up which will force very aggressive rationing practices by medical groups. Cass Sunstein, who our President appointed 'Regulatory Czar,' states that unless you specifically record your wish not to donate organs, doctors should be able to harvest your organs (should you be declared 'brain dead') for donation on the basis of 'presumed consent,' even if you never actually give consent.

He also has stated that an economic crisis can be '.' Susan Rice, who our President appointed Ambassador to the United Nations states that we must increase the role of the United Nations in world affairs. Regarding end-of-life care within the health care system, as we shall see, the nation's most prominent hospice physicians (such as Joanne Lynn, MD and Ira Byock, MD) are proponents of terminal sedation to hasten death.

Willard Gaylin, MD, co-founder of the Hastings Center is a proponent of euthanasia who applauds the efforts to expand the definition of 'death' in order to overcome obstacles to legally performing euthanasia. Gaylin is widely accepted in the mainstream media and policymaking circles, and the Hastings Center is one of the organizations that has most influenced the modern American hospice industry to betray its original mission to care, not kill.

To top it off, our President appointed John Holdren 'Science Czar.' Holdren is the co-author of the 1977 book, Ecoscience that promotes ideas like forced sterilizations and abortions to limit population growth, compelling single mothers to give up their children to others, putting chemicals in water supplies to prevent births, and a planetary world government that would implement these ideas for the good of the world. Although Holdren is a man-made global warming alarmist in the present (necessitating dramatically increased government-imposed regulations), in the late 1970s he was warning about disastrous global cooling (necessitating dramatically increased government-imposed regulations).

It is not a mistake that these specific leaders were chosen to shape our society and our nation's policies. Each of them has at one time or another stated that he is not what the record shows him to be: an advocate of a much bigger government role in our lives. Their public reassurances and denials of the obvious are not credible. Taken all together, it is certain that increased government-control of our lives and health care based upon a utilitarian philosophy is being promoted. America will certainly be changed by their collective efforts. The new health care reform law has created agencies such as the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research institute (PCORI), whose main activities will result in rationed care. The role of secular culture-of-death hospice and palliative care within the health system will be expanded dramatically.

So, it is right to be wary about the changes being proposed: we are swiftly moving toward a utilitarian-controlled and callous society that will victimize many. It is already happening to many at the end-of-life. This book will explain exactly what is happening, how it's being accomplished, who is responsible, and why it is being done.

The book will also explain what must be done to truly reform the health care industry, our government and how to restore the American respect for life. We cannot rely on the government to respect the sanctity of life at any stage of life, even though respect for an individual life is central to traditional American values and our Constitutional system. Respect for life is central to preventing harm to patients, patients who could be your loved ones. Health care professionals who have a reverence for life view their work as a mission and an opportunity to express their love for each patient. Those with faith, view their work as an opportunity to glorify the Giver of life through service to those who are most vulnerable. However, federal law and Congressional budgetary expenditures approved by the Presidents (current and past) encourage abortion, eugenics and stealth euthanasia. You will understand exactly how after reading this book.

The simple truth is that we are entering an extremely dangerous period in American history. Dangerous for those who are the most vulnerable of all and dangerous for our society as a whole. If people contemplate and really see the sanctity of life, their quality of life arguments fall away and they will understand that we are here to care for each other, not to kill each other. Caring, and not convenience, is the sign of a civilized and just society! I - Trends in American Society Although the health care reform law was opposed by many who value our freedoms, utilitarians know that their decades-long activities shaped the thinking of our leaders and made it possible. The enactment represents a coup by elites who believe they know better than most Americans what is best for Americans. Sold to many in America as a way to bring coverage to those who had none, it represents the assumption by government of 1/6 of the American economy and therefore, a huge increase in the size of government and its role in every American's life.

It may be hard to believe, because nobody has been speaking about it, but it represents a 'fait accompli' for the Euthanasia Society of America's descendants in this generation. You may find such a statement completely shocking, especially if you think that government is the answer to most of our society's problems. And you will reject the statement if you believe some of the language in the law without reading all of the law. We have to remember that it is the people who implement the technical details and interpretation of the law that will have the greatest impact on what really happens. Many segments of the law have vague language such as, 'the Secretary ('Secretary of Health and Human Services') shall establish.'

' promulgate regulations.' 'The Secretary shall develop standards.' What is clear is that many of the details are going to be filled in with 'administrative rules,'. Regulations that are just as much 'the law of the land,' but which are created not by our Congressmen, but by bureaucrats in the federal government. For example, if you read the following segment of the law, and take it literally, you may come to believe that a utopian health care heaven has suddenly emerged and taken shape in America: 'In defining the essential health benefits under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall. (D) ensure that health benefits established as essential not be subject to denial to individuals against their wishes on the basis of the individuals' age or expected length of life or of the individuals' present or predicted disability, degree of medical dependency, or quality of life; [] Ah, the devil's in the details. What exactly are 'essential' health benefits?

And who will receive them? The language is made to sound as if everyone is going to get the essential services that would reasonably be expected to be provided.

Yet, the man our President appointed Health Advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, has, ' services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.' [Emphasis added] This is not surprising since Dr. Emanuel is a fellow at the Hastings Center. The same Hastings Center co-founded by the euthanasia proponent, Willard Gaylin, MD. The same Hastings Center whose other co-founder, Daniel Callahan, explained in 1983 that taking all food and fluid away from vulnerable patients was probably the only way to make sure certain patients actually die (without legalization of euthanasia in America). This is the same Hastings Center that has worked side-by-side with hospice industry leaders to transform hospice and palliative care into the practical laboratory where its utilitarian, pro-euthanasia ideas are implemented, practices we now know as stealth euthanasia and direct euthanasia. Utilitarians, like Dr.

Emanuel, refer to individuals who are not working, not producing goods or not providing services for society, as non-participating citizens. These are the dependent individuals who society normally cares for or assists with the activities of daily living. It is very clear that those who are brain-injured, cognitively-impaired, developmentally-disabled or very elderly fall into the category Dr. Emanuel is referring to. If there is to be no 'discrimination' resulting in 'denials of care based on their age,' or 'disability' why would Dr. Emanuel categorically state that the disabled or very elderly (those who are 'irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens') should not be guaranteed services?

Why would the government set up the mechanisms for rationing care known as the (PCORI) where will be done and committees will decide what treatments are appropriate or effective for different populations of patients? Shouldn't such decisions be made by a physician and the patient? Not according to the new health care reform law. Not according to those who will run the government-run health system. Shining a light on how services can be denied, 'Dr. Richard Della Penna, M.D., a former Kaiser physician and one of America's leading medical experts in Elder Care and the treatment of Special Needs Patients (SNP'S) has against Kaiser Permanente, [et. As a result of in California, Colorado and Georgia because it just didn't want to spend the money.'

An example of such denied treatment? Laura Shumaker, the mother of an autistic child, writes that in 2009, she 'received [her] first. They denied Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Speech therapy, and Occupational therapy. To deny these treatments to children with autism is the equivalent of denying insulin to a diabetic or chemotherapy to a cancer patient.' These are examples of the callous hand of rationing for profit in real life. When it's your loved one being impacted, you understand how evil it can get.

CEOs of these corporations make millions of dollars per year, but basic treatment for many of the disabled and chronically ill is denied! All in the name of rationing or having 'effective' practices.

There is a difference between making health care more efficient while making a profit and unethical exploitation. 'Comparative effectiveness research is designed to inform health-care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of different treatment options.

The evidence is generated from research studies that compare drugs, medical devices, tests, surgeries, or ways to deliver health care. There are two ways that this evidence is found: *Researchers look at all of the available evidence about the benefits and harms of each choice for different groups of people from existing clinical trials, clinical studies, and other research. These are called research reviews, because they are systematic reviews of existing evidence. *Researchers conduct studies that generate new evidence of effectiveness or comparative effectiveness of a test, treatment, procedure, or health-care service.' [From the U.S.

Department of Health & Human Services 's - Effective Health Care Program] With the U.S. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a non-elected committee will be making recommendations that will likely be accepted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in deciding what treatments it will or won't cover. If treatments are not covered, they won't be available to anyone, or they won't be available to 'selected' groups within the American population! Those promoting 'controlled death,' 'death with dignity,' or outright 'euthanasia,' know what it all means, what the implications are for changes to come in the future, even if those on the side of life still don't fully 'get it.' The bottles of champagne have been uncorked by those favoring eugenics, euthanasia, assisted-suicide and utilitarian government. And while the major media produces programs and prints articles that ridicule those who criticize the law as 'right wing nuts,' the aggressive rationing of health care it involves will eventually, directly and negatively impact the lives of you and your family. The enshrines into law a system diametrically opposed to what most Americans believe.

It creates a system where government bureaucrats (not the public) determine whether care is provided or not. Its mandate that all Americans buy into the government-approved system negates the basic freedom that Americans have always had to choose whether to buy something or not. 'Pro-choice' does not apply here. 'No choice' is the new policy. While promising to extend health care coverage to all, they intend to limit care that is provided to the elderly, disabled and chronically ill. How do we know this is their intent?

The leaders the administration has put in place to design and administer the program have told us what they think, what their goals are and how they will implement them. It is clear they will achieve some of their goals by limiting reimbursements to those who provide medical services. We know that rationing is on its way when we see that reimbursement to medical providers will be limited severely.

The, whose members provide care for 'roughly 1 in 3 Americans' has analyzed the regulations regarding accountable care organizations ('ACOs') created under the new health care reform law. The AMGA's member medical groups include the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and many other well-known leading hospital and medical group practices. The AMGA regards the regulations as, 'overly prescriptive, operationally burdensome, and the incentives are too difficult to achieve.' They fear that complying with the regulations will cause significant financial loss for the hospitals and medical groups.

And we know that when reimbursements are limited, the medical groups will take steps to limit services and treatments to minimize their losses, i.e., health care rationing. The AMGA also warns that, ' if ACOs are not successful,' they are 'concerned that.' [Emphasis added] Government officials and bureaucrats may not target you or your loved ones individually, but they definitely will target government's reimbursements to providers for specific groups of individuals, and then, medical providers will allow or deny access to treatment based on government-designated reimbursements for these categories of the population. There is no need for the so-called 'death panels' for lives to be shortened. Bureaucratic 'decision trees' will guide paper-pushers (either in private medical groups or a future government-run program) who issue determinations about whether diagnostic tests, treatment, surgeries and so on will be provided, or not. Needed treatment when denied equals shortened lives. If it is government-run, health care will replicate the 'cost-efficiency' practices of private health insurers, with outright treatment denials impacting the lives of those most vulnerable.

And if it is privately-run, insurers will follow managed care models of care (as they already do) and continue to evolve along these lines promoting profit beyond what can reasonably be accomplished if the members of the health plans are to be given the health care they need and pay for. When it comes to 'patient protection,' protecting citizens from treatment denials, the health care reform law fails completely. The law may only make health care 'affordable' for the government through aggressive rationing of care provided. It will not make it 'affordable' for many.

There is no protection for the patient's right to choose a private health insurance plan over the long run. In fact, over time, private health insurance as we have known it will completely end. More private insurance companies will or may go out of business as time moves forward. Health insurance plans in America are already being forced to change in ways that have caused an increase in insurance premiums. In the long run, those health insurance companies that survive will be either government-run or government-controlled.

In America, we have mainly had a privately-delivered health care system along with safety nets provided for those who could not purchase health care on their own. The safety net in years past could simply have been free clinics, free services at hospital emergency rooms for those without insurance, charitable giving from the neighbors in the community, a doctor who would treat someone for free if they were unable to pay, or an extended family that stood ready to provide bedside care as needed. Today, Medicare and Medicaid represent the biggest government-run safety net, yet the character of the services to be provided will be drastically changed. For those who are not on Medicare or Medicaid, with implementation of the health care reform law, we will see '.' Where will these employees find coverage? Clearly, the main, or only, provider will be a government-run or government-controlled program. There certainly are problems with our current system, and there is no question it should and can be improved.

Under any system there will probably always be some who 'fall through the cracks.' Yet, our health care system is internationally known to offer the highest quality health care in the world. People come from all over the world to get care here under the private health care system we have had. Private charities and government programs have helped many who are in need. The state Medicaid programs provide access to health care for millions.

Numerous charities provide services to the poor, hungry, and ailing. In an effort to help some (the purported aim of the health care 'reform'), the ability of many to access care is likely to be destroyed, especially when it comes to the elderly and the disabled. Sure, if their illness is easily treated, they'll get care just as they always did, but when seriously ill, treatment will be hard to obtain. As we begin to wonder if the freedoms which make up the American way of life will disappear right before our eyes, we also wonder what are the government and media not telling us about the realities of 'health care reform?' Why was a bill that provided for the government seizing control of 1/6 of our economy not read before the Congress voted on it? Why wasn't there extensive open debate about the pros and cons of such reform if the best interests of America were to be determined? Why wasn't input from all sides of society on this extremely important issue reflected in the law? Popcom Software Download.

How has our society seemingly been split down the middle? When it comes to our own private lives, our own health, people have good reason to ask questions about what will happen under a government-run health care system. We don't know what will result from having a government-run or privately-run health care system that is heavily-influenced to do certain things, provide certain treatments or not, and what the government's influence will have on our lives. But we can already see the direction those pushing 'health care reform' are taking us. We must understand who is running the show and how they think.

Today, 'quality of life' has been substituted for 'sanctity of life.' The short section of the law quoted above even mentioned the phrase, quality of life, not sanctity of life. When you disregard sanctity of life and focus on quality of life exclusively, in the language of the Nazis, those 'unworthy of life' with a poor quality of life are, in the name of mercy, going to be hastened to an early death. In fact, the Nazis used the phrase, 'giving a merciful death.' You may say, 'Oh, that's going too far!' But all we have to do is look at the case of Terri Schiavo to understand that in some cases, yes, a living, human being can be made to die in a hospice by court order, with the approval of the federal, state and local government as well as the police in that area. I can hear some say, 'oh, here we go again.'

'I've heard enough about that case and don't want to hear anymore.' 'I already know what happened.' In most cases, you didn't hear the complete truth and you don't know what happened. Some things were never published anywhere. Of course, many said she was 'brain dead,' 'already dead,' 'better off dead' and the like. And it is clear that almost everyone has a very, very strong opinion about the case and believes they know a lot about it. They may have even read dozens of articles about it and discussed it at length.

I have spoken directly with Terri's parents and family, nurses who cared for her and others who saw her themselves. And, after reading numerous letters to the editor, online posts, hearing all sorts of discussions about the case, and reading hundreds of articles, it is clear to me that most of the people in this country have no idea what her real condition was, what really happened with her so-called 'collapse,' what was involved in her death, who was behind it and what the agenda was. Almost no people really think about her admission to hospice as being central to what really occurred there! Almost nobody thinks about the euthanasia movement in this country and what that has to do with her court-ordered death. But the euthanasia movement working within the hospice industry was the force that manipulated her into hospice for the purpose of imposing death upon her.

The major media stories about the case provided absolutely false information about her. By the end of this book, you will know how and why they lied. This is easily proved for anyone who takes the time to truly research the case, read the as well as speak directly with some of the nurses who cared for her, doctors who examined her, and with the family as I have. Sometimes, there is a financial motive to deny treatment to an individual. People say, 'life support is too expensive.' In Terri's case, like many others who today are hastened to their death, she was not on any 'life support' at all but was merely getting food and water through a tube.

On the other hand, there are some very expensive medical procedures, surgeries and/or medications that do cause people to think, 'We need to determine who best should receive this.' Decisions are made every day about who gets an organ transplant, and that is a form of 'rationing.' It's something that is necessary, and because the lives of patients can depend upon it, health care decision-making needs to be done fairly, ethically, and humanely. We can all agree on that. But then the question arises, 'what determines if an action is 'fair?' How do we know if the decision is 'ethical' or 'right?'

What does it mean to be 'humane?' These questions are answered in different ways by those who hold different worldviews and values. Some who have religious faith would decide one way.

Many who are agnostic or atheistic would decide another way. How do we determine what is ethical and right? If society discards the Judeo-Christian values which are the acknowledged foundations for much of America's laws as well as the Constitution, what will be substituted for them?

Anyone who's been around for more than a few decades knows that one day the experts tell us it's 'bad to eat this or that.' A few years later, they tell us there's new research and what they told so authoritatively before no longer applies. People just don't know what to think. In business, especially health care, every ten years it seems there's a new 'system' of management being implemented in the hospitals (those who work in them know what I'm talking about). A new 'modern,' 'progressive' way of doing things.

The same type of regular change holds true in terms of what the latest thinking about societal issues is. With no societal 'anchor' to keep us stable, we would be going through chaotic change every decade. Just think about what happened in 1960s Communist China with the Cultural Revolutions there. One moment the Red Guard was killing 'counter-revolutionaries,' and a few years later, another group was killing the 'old' Red Guard (calling them 'counter-revolutionary,' and on and on it went with millions dying in the chaos. If we don't have a stable societal 'anchor' in our values, then one 'crackpot' philosopher, bioethicist or politician will come along and later, another will come and change it all over again. A stable nation cannot exist without a stable system of values and traditional beliefs.

Our traditional American values are founded in the Judeo-Christian traditions which have given rise to our many freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and so many others that have made our nation a model for the world. So, we need a stable set of values that help to preserve the freedoms that are part of what America is all about. When it comes to these freedoms, freedom from discrimination is a passionately-defended right, a Constitutionally-guaranteed right. Those of us who are of different ethnic groups want to be free to live our lives without being subjected to unfair discrimination. Those of us who are ill and need an organ transplant or medical procedure, also do not want to be subject to unfair discrimination.

Today, transplants may be distributed to those who are waiting on the list and those who have waited longest, who are first on the list, get the organ. It seems fair and can make sense, but sometimes, decisions are made that negatively impact a patient because people believe they are less worthy of living at all. Some people suffer much due to illness or disability, but that does not mean they are less worthy of life itself or that they want to be killed. Utilitarians do not agree; they believe some of us are expendable, better off dead, and if not dead, then relegated to the deplorable conditions found in many nursing facilities and left there to die.

In hospitals, the elderly may be treated very differently than a middle-aged or young adult. Families have told me so many times of the difficulties they have getting physicians in the hospital to treat their loved one with simple medical care that meets the standards of care. For example, a 90 year-old who has some stable but chronic condition may be under or over treated for a condition, with the intent of causing death. Sometimes, powerful antibiotics or other medicaitons are given when they are not needed at the same time the patient is not taking in fluids, in order to damage the kidneys and cause death.

Sometimes, an anti-coagulant such as Coumadin is given in a large dose while lab tests to see if the blood levels are within the acceptable range are intentionally put off for weeks, with the intent that the patient have a stroke due to bleeding and die. Sometimes the patient is kept on an I.V. Solution of saline water at a very low rate with no nutrients for days on end, with the intent that the patient destabilize and eventually die. Sometimes, blood glucose levels are not maintained in the normal range in a diabetic patient, so that the patient dies. Sometimes, something as simple as leaving the blankets off a patient overnight is done so that the patient goes into hypothermia and dies. I've heard from families where three or four of these methods have been used to make their elderly parent die.

Don't believe it? Just as ',' hospital staff may threaten the family member (who has the power-of-attorney) with a complaint against them with adult protective services if the POA doesn't go along with whatever the hospital is doing, just to intimidate them and shut them up. And we have reports that when families refuse to go along, hospital staff do use the social service agencies to get their way and remove the caring family members from the picture (even the member with the POA). Hospital staff may intimidate family members into signing a Do-Not-Resuscitate order and then put their loved one into hospice.

It happens every day, because some doctor in the hospital decided 'it's time' for that patient to die. In nursing homes, neglect and abuse can cause death as well. There have been Congressional hearings on abuse, neglect and severe harm to residents of many nursing homes for decades, yet nothing of significance is ever done to improve the conditions in these facilities. And while some facilities do a good job, too many maintain horrendous conditions. In August 2009, Congress's 'investigational arm,' the General Accounting Office reported that, ' [GAO-09-689] Just think what happens to the patients there when they are enrolled in hospice at these for-profit nursing homes! There have been extended, decades-long campaigns by millions of people to achieve the civil rights blacks enjoy today. There have been decades-long campaigns by millions to achieve equal rights for women.

There have been decades-long efforts to stop the killings of babies in the womb and yes, decades-long efforts to continue that practice. There have been many efforts made for years to achieve rights for immigrants, illegal immigrants, gays, migrant workers and others. There have been all sorts of marches and political efforts and protests throughout our history. Where are the millions, or even thousands, speaking out for the rights of the disabled, the very elderly, even those deemed 'terminally ill?'

Many do not really know how terrible the conditions are for some of the very disabled, elderly and those who are terminally ill. Many not only do not march for the rights of the disabled, elderly and terminally ill, many think they don't really have a problem. They like to believe that they are well-cared for if they think of them at all.

Others, who have seen patients suffer under the conditions at some facilities, simply block out the thought of their existence and their problems. These are society's forgotten, the voiceless.

There are reams of documents detailing the abuse, neglect and harm being done to these very elderly and the disabled, but no marches. Yet, the numbers of elderly and disabled individuals victimized is in the tens of millions through the years. No civil rights movement. 'Civil rights' are not restricted to the struggle of any one group of people!

We all have civil rights. The trend is to 'write off' this group and give them a one-way ticket out of here. It is the greatest civil rights struggle in America, yet the voices of the vulnerable are censored.

If their voices reach out somehow, they are quickly silenced and ignored. It as if our society is and nobody comes to rescue them. If a movie were made about this civil rights struggle, it might be entitled, 'What if there were a civil rights struggle, and nobody came?' It could show a blank screen with intermittent flashes of some patient advocates or organizations who've dedicated their lives to speaking out on behalf of the voiceless. But very little response from the public.

No 'movement' to rescue the voiceless. Usb Endoscope Camera Drivers there. While there is life, we must care for and respect it! Monday, June 27, 2011 We must do more. Every day, courts, guardians, people with a health care 'power of attorney,' doctors, nurses, agencies and others, make decisions that may result in the harm or death of some patients. Sometimes, the decisions are made in accordance with the patient's actual well thought-out wishes.

Sometimes, they are not. There are many articles about such cases, some of them actually called 'mercy killings.' People are beginning to see the trends. What is being planned today is unlike anything that has ever been done in America before, and we will see that the foundation for today's 'reform' has quietly been built over decades while Americans simply looked the other way. We didn't pay attention when a change here and a change there occurred. A change in the law here, a court ruling there, and after a while, the changes add up.

We now have a completely different approach among health care professionals and the courts. What is planned for our society is obvious to those who understand the history of the culture of death and the 'flavor' of hospice and palliative care promoted by the culture of death. Most people don't realize there even is a different type of hospice and palliative care.

Talk of managing scarce health care resources must be balanced with the Constitutional rights and basic human rights of citizens living within a just and civilized society, and the vulnerable are still citizens of our nation! Their struggle is in numbers the in our history.

Yet, if health care rationing is carried out on a utilitarian basis, it can become the preferred 'tool' for a tyrannical exercise of power, actually eliminating many individuals and threatening the basic fabric of our society.: No 'State [shall] deprive any person of life. Without due process of law. Of course, the original context when that was written had to do with punishment for crimes against society. But the idea of not executing someone, not ending their life without 'due process' under the law has been an obstacle that the Euthanasia Society of America had to overcome.

Over the course of seventy years, the Euthanasia Society (and its successor organizations) has made war on this central Constitutional right to life expressly stated in the 14th Amendment. They have made war on the American way of life. Through like-minded legislators along with justices of the Supreme Courts of the states and of the United States, they have succeeded. It is now possible to deprive a person of life without due process in the United States! You will see how here. The successors of the Euthanasia Society of America are now proceeding with their plan to implement stealth euthanasia for citizens whose 'quality of life' is deemed 'unworthy of life.'

These are the last acts of this lethal society. And who will be their target? The elderly and severely disabled. In every state and county. Affecting your family and you. And they don't have to be the 'very' elderly or 'very' disabled.

I've heard of the 'not-so-elderly' (even 60 years old) or disabled being placed in hospice and dying shortly thereafter, even though they had no terminal illness at all. Others about these developments: 'In an era of cost control and managed care, patients with lingering illnesses may be branded an economic liability, and decisions to encourage death can be driven by cost. As Acting U.S. Solicitor General Walter Dellinger warned in urging the Supreme Court to uphold laws against assisted suicide: 'The least costly treatment for any illness is lethal medication.' [] In addition to what I share with you directly from my own experience and knowledge gathered from people all around the country and around the world, I've chosen to include extensive quotes from experts in relevant fields so you are presented with a collage of ideas and information, reference sources that allow you to see how the American respect for life has been devalued over seventy years.

This book is presented less as a 'literary work' and more as a practical tool you can use to understand completely where we are at today when it comes to stealth euthanasia, medical killings 'under the radar' that are becoming increasingly common. You will understand the real significance of the changes in health care being implemented today and what needs to be done to protect those you care about. Because some people become extremely offended that anyone would dare to write something critical of 'those wonderful hospice people,' let me respond before people get worked up.

I have worked in hospice and know many wonderful professionals working in the field. Through the years, some people regularly write in and suggest that we post many positive stories about hospice. There are literally thousands of websites promoting the good that is done, some of it true. And at a hospice that is run by those who adhere to the mission, there are many benefits to the patients and their families.

Yes, there are extremely dedicated professionals working in the field. And, we have hundreds of pages of information on the Hospice Patients Alliance website detailing all the helpful services that hospice and palliative care units should be providing, how good end-of-life care is provided and the regulations governing hospice agencies. We certainly know the difference that good end-of-life care can make. For over a decade I've said that: serving hospice patients and their families is one of the greatest privileges and trusts a health care professional could ever be granted.

Only those staff with great love, sensitivity, and compassion understand the real mission of hospice. Really, it is a calling. Health care professionals are taught to be detached and not get too involved.

But those of us who view our work as a spiritual calling believe in simply loving them unconditionally, being with them, treating them as we would be want to be treated. Unfortunately, there is another side to the story that must be presented! This book is an urgent wake-up call to Americans and people around the world, because what is happening in the United States is also happening in other nations as well. Worldwide influences are impacting what happens here in our country and around the globe. No nation is untouched by what happens in the other parts of the world. With the internet and so many forms of communication, with the ease of traveling around the world, groups from one nation can network with those on the other side of the globe. The has been warning about these developments for many years.

This book is not written for any one particular group of Americans, or any one particular religious group. We are all people, and people everywhere want the same things: the ability to provide for their families, and to live a fulfilling life. All people want the lives of their loved ones to be respected and normally do not want their lives ended in an untimely and involuntary manner. Yet, global influences and exchange can be a blessing or a curse. The, for example, has had much influence on what is happening here in the United States (such as in Oregon, Washington, and other states where efforts are being made to legalize assisted-suicide).

It also promotes legalization of medical killing in other nations. When it comes to hospice and end-of-life care, hospice and palliative care leaders from around the world network through the. Information about improvements in end-of-life care can rapidly be shared and implemented. And then, America's hospice trade group, the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization helps to shape how many hospice agencies deliver care in the United States.

It is the nation's main end-of-life care industry lobbying group. That would all be fine if the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization was not organization to the Euthanasia Society of America. Unfortunately, it is!

Whether we consider end-of-life care or health care in general, how care is delivered can be shaped by worldviews that may not be in harmony with our U.S. Constitutional values.

Health care reform efforts being made today in our country are very much influenced by models of health care in place (and trends) in the United Kingdom, Canada, France and other nations. And with that influence comes much talk about health care rationing, legalization of euthanasia and assisted-suicide and other problems. Health care rationing is directly linked with the end-of-life care industry, yet this connection has not been appropriately explored. Perhaps it is because those who cannot access care, who may be denied treatment, will be placed in end-of-life care clinical settings or at home, even if they are not 'terminal' in the sense we have come to understand. In the United Kingdom, Dr Howard Martin stated on February 11, 2011 that, 'giving morphine to terminally-ill patients in hospital to end their lives.'

At the highest levels of policy-making in government and the corporate world, stakeholders shut out those who respect the for all citizens at any stage of life. How do we respond to this? Do we really want politicians, bureaucrats and ideologues making decisions that impact our lives and our loved ones' lives? As most Americans have little trust for what politicians say, in general, why would we ever want them to have such an intrusive impact on the most personal decisions of our families' lives? On our health care? For those who must enroll in Medicare, there is no choice but to have politicians, bureaucrats and ideologues making decisions that impact their lives.

On the other hand, some with private insurance may have nameless claims adjusters who seem to whimsically deny treatment in the name of 'managed care,' something HMOs have specialized in. Whether you call it a 'treatment denial' or 'rationing,' it still has the same effect, and after you look at the patterns, you know that it mostly has to do with money, but sometimes there's something else going on.

Only those who are more concerned with quality of life than sanctity of life are taken seriously at the government decision-making 'table.' And however many committees arrive at consensus, policies that arise out of a quality of life mindset will always end up victimizing the vulnerable, often causing shortened lives. However, we must remind ourselves what the medical missionary, humanitarian and 1952 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Albert Schweitzer's life was all about: reverence for life!

He said: 'Reverence for Life is a philosophy that says that the only thing we're really sure of is that we live, and want to go on living. And this is something that we share with everything else that lives - from elephants to blades of grass. So we are brothers and sisters to all living things, and nothing else, neither race nor colour nor religion nor sex, should be more important than this one deepest, most extraordinary thing connecting us. 'The whole world, indeed the whole universe, has evolved to give us life - you and me and the rest of the living world.

'But only humans are aware of all this. This is some responsibility. Because we also have the ability to neglect, to destroy, to cause suffering and death.

And indeed some suffering and death is inevitable. 'For life is extraordinary. Every scientific advance tells us this. We now know the billion to one chances ever since the Big Bang that have enabled life to develop and then to survive on this planet, and the extreme rarity of it in the universe. More than ever, we have good reason to feel reverence for it.'

[' - Albert Schweitzer; Emphasis added] We have forgotten so much. Reverence for life is the remedy we need to heal our nation's descent into the abyss of imposed death and stealth euthanasia.

Reverence for life brings sanity back into the discussion of these issues. When we have reverence for life, the question of imposing death does not arise. We simply love and care, allowing for a natural death when it truly approaches on its own. We can honor life, loving all the way from life to death. This Thing Called Hospice Hospice is about caring for those approaching death, whether they are young or old. People say they would like to live 'forever,' but when illness, old age or major disability hit, the majority begin to let go of their attachments here and think about what, if anything, comes next.

They go through a process of leaving behind everything they love and finishing whatever they have left to do, and then they must let go altogether. Hospice professionals help them with these transitions, the most important they will ever go through. Hospice is a hybrid of medical, spiritual and emotional caregiving for the terminally ill and his or her loved ones. Hospice and palliative care (symptom management) services are provided when curative treatments are no longer effective, when the patient's death is foreseeable.

Under the traditional Medicare hospice benefit, patients are enrolled in the hospice benefit when the physician certifies that death is likely to occur within six months or less. Often, the physician-ordered diagnostic tests reveal cancer, heart disease or other illnesses have progressed to what is called the 'end-stage' and medical treatment can no longer prevent further deterioration of the patient's health. Large percentages of those admitted to hospice care are in the winter of their lives and also experience what many elderly face: isolation, loneliness and depression. Even for those terminally ill who are younger, visitors may be infrequent if they come at all. People don't know how to act around the dying, and tend to stay away even if they wish to visit.

Elderly patients may already be 'shut-in' in their homes, living off of their retirement funds (if they have any) and Social Security. They may not be well enough to travel out to the stores to shop and depend upon other family members, neighbors and programs that serve shut-ins to help them. With failing eyesight, decreased coordination, flagging energy levels and forgetfulness on the rise, seniors struggle to do the ordinary tasks of life, the 'activities of daily living' such as bathing, dressing, cooking and cleaning.

Their spouse or other family members may also be frail and are often unable to help them adequately. Being terminally ill, all of these tasks become even more difficult. In the early stages, programs like 'Meals on Wheels' can continue to help the elderly enjoy a cooked meal from time to time. There are also many forms of assistance available through home health agencies.

Hospice agencies offer many of these same services. As disease progresses, there is a recognition that the patient will be able to do less and less. Home care aides may help with bathing and dressing when they are available. Nurses visit to make sure patients take their medications for the week and to check on the senior's health status. Social workers inspect the overall environment, helping to make sure the senior citizen is accessing all the support networks available to make the living arrangements work.

They also offer counseling to help resolve problems the senior may be experiencing and to cope with the challenge of facing approaching death. If the patient's medical condition has interfered with their abilities to carry out the activities of daily living, physical therapists are also available to help with movement and strength conditioning, occupational therapists can help with detailed tasks involved in daily life, speech-language therapists assess and offer help with swallowing and speech problems. Sometimes, elders may not be able to safely function on their own and need placement in a facility where more supportive services are provided.

Whether elders are living in a facility or not, they may not know others around them and may experience a feeling of complete isolation. They may feel out of place, out of touch, forgotten and alone. The young staff seem like little children, even though they may be twenty to forty (or more) years old!

Some elders adjust well as they age and are able to make new friends, learn new things and participate actively in the world. Others simply can't.

And as they age into the very elderly category, memory problems may increasingly interfere with their lives. Having worked with the elderly, the disabled and the dying for many years, I've seen first-hand how difficult it can be for these individuals. The smallest tasks may have become extremely difficult, and emotionally, they face the grief of losing everything, not only their possessions, friends and family, but their very lives as death approaches.

The supportive care that a good hospice provides can make a big difference to those approaching death. Knowing that you will be cared for when everything seems to be closing in and having your family with you are what most of the dying want most. They want to be able to say things that were left unsaid, to share the love they have in their hearts, to patch up problems that may have arisen over the years and to say goodbye this last time. And while curative measures are no longer effective, there is much that good end-of-life care can do to help the patient live more fully and comfortably till the end comes. This is what has made the idea of hospice and palliative care so appealing to many.

As the days pass, the patients and families may become very attached to the hospice professionals who spend time with them. There are many opportunities for staff and patients or families to speak, share stories and get to know each other. All present share a very intense, intimate and special period in their lives. Patients and family alike often have their 'guard down' and speak openly about all sorts of things that normally, they'd never share with anyone.

It is a time like no other, and people know that. In many societies, there is the idea of 'keeping vigil' with the dying, being there for him or her, supporting them as they make the transition from this life to the next. This is the story of hospice, palliative care, and health care reform. It is also my story, and whether you know it or not, it is your story too, because every family in our nation will be touched in one way or another by hospice, palliative care, or the reforms being implemented.

The government plans on having each of us die within hospice (or palliative care) eventually. That means you and your family members.

This concerns you! Most of the public thinks there is one 'thing' called hospice all over the country. Mostly, they really don't think about it, and don't know how it's set up or how it works. The hospice industry has carefully promoted this false image of the hospice industry and carefully avoided portraying themselves as separate individual business entities, i.e., 'corporations,' providing services.

'Hospice is a philosophy!' Exclaim some websites (run by hospice business entities). 'Hospice is the place' for compassionate care, exclaim many others (business entities). Is it a philosophy? Is it a place?

I can tell you that for about thirty years it's been a business! It's corporate! And it's big, getting bigger every year! Most of the public does not know that 'hospice' is not that big, warm, fuzzy thing they imagine when they think of hospice.

It's not what they've been led to believe. Hospice has always been a business aside from the purely volunteer hospices that dominated the field completely in the 1970s. There are still a couple of hundred volunteer hospices in the country, but they are not what we're discussing here. The volunteer hospices in the country do much good, and do not pose the threat that some big hospice corporations do.

In 1983, the federal government implemented the Medicare hospice benefit and that's when all the non-profit (and a very few for-profit) hospice corporations started being created around the country. Some volunteer hospice organizations simply re-formed, incorporated under their state's nonprofit regulations and started providing services while billing to Medicare for reimbursement. For-profit hospice agencies really weren't much of a factor back then.

Yet, even non-profit hospice agencies (business entities) take in revenue and pay their staff and administrators salaries. You would get the impression that there were no problems in hospice as an industry if you considered most of the articles written over the years.

There are literally thousands of articles touting the wonders of hospice, the good they do, and how families and patients are so well-served. If you read any paper in the country, you must have seen some of these 'feel-good' stories, promoting hospice services. The only problem is that picture is completely unbalanced. Because the major media's editors have chosen to censor the other side of the story for decades, we have chosen to provide the information the public needs.

I remember six years ago when the hospice was dehydrating Terri Schiavo to death. ABC Worldwide radio had contacted me to come on the air and be interviewed about the case.

I brought my son along to the WOOD AM Radio station high up in the Monroe Center office building in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was exciting and upsetting at the same time.

The radio technicians told us where to sit and counted down as we 'went live' and I was on the air answering a question posed. As soon as the words were out of my mouth, they had Michael Schiavo and George Felos, his attorney, on to counter what I said, though they were not telling the truth, and there was no opportunity given for me to respond and explain that there was to confirm what I had said. They didn't want to hear about it. They were just interested in a sound bite, not the truth. It's similar to the ongoing cover-up in the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Everyone who paid attention to the news at the time knows they were looking for 'John Doe #2.' And then suddenly, they weren't looking for 'John Doe #2.' People forget, but the truth is that the investigative reporter,, found him fairly quickly, even though the FBI and fe.

Coordinates:: Country Government • Wolfram Dette () Area • Total 75.67 km 2 (29.22 sq mi) Elevation 148-402 m (−1,171 ft) Population (2015-12-31) • Total 51,649 • Density 680/km 2 (1,800/sq mi) / (UTC+1/+2) 6 06441, 0641, 06446 WZ, (LDK) Website Wetzlar is a city located in the state of,. It is a former that owed much of its fame to being the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court ( ) of the. Located at 8° 30′ E, 50° 34′ N, Wetzlar straddles the river and is on the which passes mile upon mile of half-timbered houses. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the on the north edge of the.

The city is known for its ancient town and its. Notable architectural features include the Eisenmarkt and the steep gradients and tightly packed street layout of a medieval town. The sandstone was commenced in the 12th century as a building.

In the later the construction was continued under a master plan in. The church was never finished, as one steeple still remains uncompleted.

The cathedral suffered heavy damage in the from, but was restored in the 1950s. On the outskirts of town the ruins of several stone towers are to be found, situated along the river. In 1975, the town hosted the 15th state festival, and in 2012 the 62nd.

Wetzlar Wetzlar lies on the eastern edge of the. The substrate consists of geologically young of the Lahn and much older and rocks of the two main geological units of the Massif, the Lahnmulde and the so-called. The northwestern part of the urban area lies on the Lahntal, and, which have only slightly hardened.

They were deposited by the River Lahn, at a point where its valley (which is still up to one kilometre wide) to the west becomes increasingly narrow and deep. The main part of the city is built on in part intensively, and layers of shales, sandstone, quartzite and limestone. They were deposited in the Devonian and Carboniferous periods in a sea characterised by island chains, volcanoes and atolls that were pushed together and covered by a layer of rock that had been transported from another location during the period of mountain building known as the.

The marine sedimentary rocks which resulted from this tectonic action now give the town its character as they were often used for building material. History [ ] The town's founding date has up to now never been established or known. There were settlements right on the western town limits, partly from 5,000 years BC.

Kalsmunt castle ruins. In the proximity of Wetzlar there are also a few remains, which were constructed during the reign of the emperor (reigned 27 BC – 14 AD). There was a military camp at Dorlar and some Roman roadwork. The most important finding however is an uncompleted city (), which has been excavated since 1993.

After their defeat in the the Romans abandoned the area and withdrew to the border. The name 'Wetzlar' had come into being most likely by the 3rd century to the 8th century. The last syllable '―lar' suggests that the town was in existence by the 3rd century. The ending may be or (in the latter case, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). The, Count in the, and as of 904, had a Church of the Saviour consecrated in 897, which replaced earlier structures. In the early 10th century came the founding of the Marienstift (). Free Imperial City [ ] Imperial City of Wetzlar Reichsstadt Wetzlar of the 12th century–1803 Capital Government Historical era • Settlements established 5th century BC • Gained approx 12th century 12th century • moved to Wetzlar 1689 • to 1803 1803 • to 1815.