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When Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Congress initiated the Social Security system, they attempted to legislate a national healthcare system as part of it. Not even a super-majority Democratic House and Senate could pass it. They knew if they did, their political careers would be over in 1936. Why? Because while the healthcare part of Social Security would actually have provided healthcare for a majority of Americans, it would have mandated transitional care for the terminally-illdeath with dignity even if the elderly were not quite ready to leave this life with "dignity," when they envisioned leaving it while they were kicking and fighting to stay. Only patients with extremely painful terminal conditions such as cancer, or frightening pulmonary diseases in which the patient knew they would eventually suffocate, wanted help leaving this world with a death devoid of both fear of dying or excruciating pain. But these are the minority of sufferers. Most of us will leave this world kicking and screaming to stay alive. Buried in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a provision which requires every patient to sign a Living Will that authorizes any physician (not just your physician) in the hospital where you are admitted to issue a DNR (do not resuscitate) order, if you are viewed to be a terminal patient. When the Health Insurance Portability Act was enacted on Aug. 21, 1996, the mainstream media hawked it as the only measure that would safeguard the rights of American workers to take their healthcare with them when they left one job in search of another. No mention was made by the media that, buried in that legislation, was a poison pilla living will provision that mandated that healthcare providers pressure patients to sign living wills or, if they refuse, the hospital would be authorized to designate one family member to make and death decisions for the hospitalized family member. Living wills are specifically designed to withhold or withdraw life support or life sustaining treatment if the patient is construed to be a terminal patient with a non-reversible condition. (Keep in mind, under Obamacare, old age is construed to be a non-reversible, terminal condition.) Elderly people without chronic diseases should think twice about signing a living will because, in doing so, they have just given the hospital or hospice, the right to euthanize them. (Click on all of the hyperlinks attached to this article and read those attachments.) Old age is now the most common terminal disease. On March 17, 2009 all living will registries in the United States were required to provide all living wills and advanced medical directive databases to HIPAA. What does that mean? It means if you were in a catastrophic accident say, 10 years ago, and thought you might die or become a vegetable from the accident, and signed a living will (or your parents or spouse did it for you), that document is suddenly, once again, going to become part of your medical case file. If you are elderly, or if you are a suitable organ donor, you will be flagged as a DNR patient. And, if you're a double dipper (you are on Medicare and Social Security), the odds of your leaving the hospital through the front door are greatly diminished.
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