Today's "Palliative Care" isn't what you think it is! Fight SB 2080

Vulnerable elderly need our vigilance!

I received the email below from my colleague Betty Wickham of Life Tree yesterday. We're a little behind the ball on this, but it's absolutely essential to take action. Call it an Advent Action against our modern day Herods who target the vulnerable. 

As I read the bill, it's about funding the education of "care teams" who are being trained in the new palliative approach that isn't about caring for patients, but caring for the bottom line. Palliative care today is more about saving money than caring for patients. Teams are trained to urge patients to refuse treatment. 

Every time I go to a "care meeting" with my sister at her nursing home, the staff bring up "the form" again which is a subtle pressure to refuse end-of-life care and choose non-treatment. For example, one question is about refusing intubation. If I had encouraged my sister to do that she would likely be dead. During a bout with pneumonia last year she was on a ventilator in ICU for about 24 hours. She would probably have died without it.

The nursing home is legally required to bring up "the form" at every care plan meeting which happen about every three months and sometimes more frequently! We have to answer the same questions again and again about what "she wants." I continue, as her power of attorney, to demand everything. My sister is not dying and she is in relatively decent health for a 40-year smoker. She enjoys her visitors (and her iced coffee). But she is also a diabetic and has COPD both of which are "incurable." Think about that when you read bills about end-of-life-care and "incurable" diseases. Many incurable diseases are treatable and people live for decades managing them.

NEVER SIGN A DNR and tell your care givers not to sign one. I fear the day when ethics boards are allowed to override family members (It's already happening) and mandate non-treatment for conditions that can be managed and allow years of life for people to enjoy friends and family. 

All of us have elderly relatives or we are the elderly relatives in our family. When you fight this you are fighting for yourself! Please contact the senators involved by phone or email. Even if you make only ONE contact randomly chosen, you will be fighting the culture of death as a Catholic warrior in the Church Militant!

Mary Ann

Dear friends of LifeTree,

Most of you have heard from me before about SB 2080.  This next week is the turning point week.  If we fail it ends in mandatory death control for the elderly, the very sick, those with multiple conditions, etc, etc which will happen because of the big push to fund palliative medicine now underway!  

We have been sold the false notion that palliative care is about life affirming healthcare.  TODAY’S PALLIATIVE CARE WAS DEVELOPED BY THE  BIG DEATH COLLABORATIVE led by George Soros and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation!!!   Please, please learn more today.  Palliative medicine is an evil spreading exponentially overnight. There will be no turning back.  You really must take this seriously and act immediately.    See lifetree.org/timeline/.   See Ione Whitlock’s “5 Things you Should Know About Palliative Care”. 

Not Dead Yet fights for the rights of the vulnerable and handicapped. Won't you?

If we do not act immediately  SB 2080 is set to roll out of the Senate HELP Committee and go to the full Senate as early as tomorrow. 

Next week it could be on Pres. Trump’s desk.  There is nothing more important to do these next 7 days than to voice your opinion about SB2080.    GET INVOLVED!   Let every US Senator know you are against The Palliative Care and Hospice  Education Training Act!  

Please let your elists know that this bill to fund palliative care is Pure Evil.   It will result in a flood of hastened deaths for people who thought they were getting good, traditional care.  Palliative Medicine Is the big secret in healthcare.  Worse yet, there has been a big coverup among supposed pro-life leaders including the Catholic 

Church itself.

Please act now.  Please read this email carefully from lawyer Sara and state representative Nancy.  Stop everything to make calls and send emails to your friends.  Above all you need to send emails to all the Republican US Senators.   This bill seems to be wired in!  

It is the beginning of the globalists’ dream...a one world economy where healthcare for those with chronic health conditions, the very sick, the elderly, or no one to speak up for them is dictated by today’s palliative medicine or the death culture. 

Do everything you can to stop The Palliative Care Education and Training Act (SB 2080, better known as PCHETA). 

The worst part is that the USCCB  and the Catholic Medical Association are in favor of this bill!   The Catholic Church is supporting euthanasia!!   We the lay people are being called to save the culture!   

READ THIS EMAIL BELOW ABOUT THE SENATE  COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO ARE SET TO HEAR THE BILL WITHIN HOURS.   ACT IMMEDIATELY!  CALL THE  COMMITTEE MEMBERS SUGGESTED.  THEN CALL ALL THE US SENATORS YOU THINK WILL LISTEN TO YOU.  DO THIS TOMORROW AND NEXT WEEK.  

THEY WILL NEED TO BE EDUCATED.   YOUR FRIENDS WILL NEED TO BE EDUCATED.  YOUR PRIEST WILL NEED  TO BE EDUCATED.   YOUR FAMILY WILL NEED TO BE EDUCATED. 

FOLKS, WE ARE WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD!!!

Let us pray for Divine Intervention,

Elizabeth (Betty) Wickham

Lifetree.org

PO Box 17301

Raleigh, NC, 27619

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From: Sara Buscher <sarabus@milwpc.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:48 PM
Subject: Action Alert re PCHETA from Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA
To: Judie Brown <amlifegranny@gmail.com>, Elizabeth Wickham <dredwickham@gmail.com>, Ione Whitlock <plainiw@frontier.com>, Sally A. Sullivan <sully4life@comcast.net>, Camille Giglio <callifeadvocates@gmail.com>, Dr. Paul Byrne M.D. <pbyrne@bex.net>, Christine M. Zanier MD <czainermd@wi.rr.com>
CC: Nancy Elliott <mmknhrep@gmail.com>

On behalf of EPC USA, Nancy Elliott and Sara Buscher are organizing a grass roots contact with key Senators to stop passage of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA). S.2080/H.R. 647. Both are in the Senate HELP Committee. Our talking points for opposing PCHETA are attached for your use.
We have learned that the Senate HELP committee has decided to report S.2080 out or include its language in a public health bill before the end of 2019. The Senate has a floor period from December 2 through the 13.

We plan to send letters to all the key Senators on Monday, December 2.
We propose that your organizations rally your members to start contacting key Senators on Tuesday, December 3. 

Each senator is typically tallying the messages they receive on each side of each issue. The purpose of these emails/calls is to get a tally against the bill recorded.


SENATORS' CONTACT INFO

We are asking you to call or email the following Senators, especially Senators Alexander, Cassidy, Enzi, Paul and Capito.

Their contact information follows and after that we have provided a sample Email and a sample Phone Call Script.

 

Senators on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee:

Senator Lamar Alexander, Committee Chair

Staff: jennifer_boyer@help.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-4944

Senator Mike Braun

Staff: reily_inman@braun.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-4814

Senator Richard Burr

Staff: angela-wiles@help.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-3154

Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.

Staff:rob_butora@cassidy.senate.gov
Office: (202) 224-5824

Senator Susan Collins (she has signed on as a co-sponsor)

Staff: amy_pellegrino@aging.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-2523

Senator Michael Enzi, Chair of Primary Health… Subcommittee

Staff: amanda_lincoln@help.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-3424

Senator Johnny Isakson

Staff: will_dent@isakson.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-3643

Senator Lisa Murkowski (she has signed on as a co-sponsor)

Staff: anna_dietderich@murkowski.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-6665

Senator Rand Paul, M.D.

Staff: zach_bennett@paul.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-4343

Senator Pat Roberts

Staff: bryan_wells@roberts.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-4774

Senator Mitt Romney

Staff: jess_pavel@romney.senate.gov

Office: (202) 224-5251

Senator Bob Casey (said to be a Prolife Democrat)
Staff: gillian_mueller@casey.senate.gov
Office: (202) 224-6324

Not on Committee:

Senator Shelley Moore Capito   (She is the Republican Sponsor of S.2080)
Staff: dana_richter@capito.senate.gov
Office: 202-224-6472

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SAMPLE EMAIL

From the list above, find the email address of the Senator’s health care Staff.

Address the email to this person.

Copy and paste the message below and modify it to include a personal story about how this issue would affect your life:

Dear Senator,

I am writing to ask you to oppose S. 2080, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act and its House counterpart, H.R. 647, in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions where the bills are waiting for a vote.

I ask you to oppose this legislation because:

The bill could erase hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare fraud recoveries by leaving the definition of “serious or life-threatening illness” until after enactment.

AND

Palliative care is often a dangerous path to death for people not otherwise dying who could have years to live. The bill’s protective provisions in Section 5 will not stop the abuse and hastened deaths of people enrolled in hospice and palliative care. The first protection is not enforced because the federal agency authorized to do so, does not have the necessary data; the second protection (S. 2080 only) applies to the furnishing of care under the Act, but the Act funds education, research and public information, not the furnishing of care.

OPTIONAL: Mention and attach Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA’s Talking Points. Add your own experiences or concerns.

Thank you for your time.

Your Name and Contact information.

You can expect to get a form response or even no response, but know that each senator is typically tallying the messages they receive on each side of each issue.

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SAMPLE PHONE CALL SCRIPT

You can reach Senator’s office by calling the number we provided. A staff member in the senator’s office will probably pick up the phone. Your conversation will go something like this:

Senator’s office. How can I help you?

Hi, I am calling to ask Senator ________ to oppose S. 2080 and H.R. 647, two versions of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act and oppose them in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions where the bills are waiting for a vote.

Then say just one sentence about how this issue affects your life to show the staffer that the issue means something to you.

You could say this or just pick one of the two reasons.

I ask you to oppose this legislation because:

The bill could erase hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare fraud recoveries by leaving the definition of “serious or life-threatening illness” until after enactment.

 AND

Palliative care is often a dangerous path to death for people not otherwise dying who could have years to live. The bill’s protective provisions in Section 5 will not stop the abuse and hastened deaths of people enrolled in hospice and palliative care.

When the staffer asks Can I get your name and address?

 Provide your name and address so your call is counted.

 Then say Thank you for your time. and you’ll be done!

 Your goal is to be counted, so a quick and courteous call like this is all it takes. If you get voicemail, leave your name and address in your message.