Comments on: When They Cannot Eat http://www.compassionandchoices.org/2011/01/24/when-they-cannot-eat/ End-of-Life Choice, Palliative Care and Counseling Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anne http://www.compassionandchoices.org/2011/01/24/when-they-cannot-eat/#comment-469 Anne Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:02:28 +0000 http://blog.compassionandchoices.org/?p=1245#comment-469 I feel for Ms. Minarick, having been in the same situation with my father. Fortunately he had a living will, but the worry that you might not be doing something correctly is heart-wrenching. I am sorry to hear the story and hope for the best for your family. I do take issue with Paula Span, however, on the comment about the Obama Administration taking out the Medicare provision-that is blatantly a misstatement. The Death Panel controversy was fired up by the anti-health-care Republicans and had to be eliminated because of uninformed public opinion. We would have a much better bill if the other side of the aisle hadn't pulled all stops to kill the bill in any way possible. I feel for Ms. Minarick, having been in the same situation with my father. Fortunately he had a living will, but the worry that you might not be doing something correctly is heart-wrenching. I am sorry to hear the story and hope for the best for your family.

I do take issue with Paula Span, however, on the comment about the Obama Administration taking out the Medicare provision-that is blatantly a misstatement. The Death Panel controversy was fired up by the anti-health-care Republicans and had to be eliminated because of uninformed public opinion. We would have a much better bill if the other side of the aisle hadn’t pulled all stops to kill the bill in any way possible.

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