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Saturday, December 7, 2019

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

---------- Forwarded message ---------
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
Office: (202) 224-4944
Senator Mike Braun
Office: (202) 224-4814
Senator Richard Burr
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)
Office: (202) 224-2523

Senator Michael Enzi, Chair of Primary Health… Subcommittee
Office: (202) 224-3424

Senator Johnny Isakson
Office: (202) 224-3643

Senator Lisa Murkowski (she has signed on as a co-sponsor)
Office: (202) 224-6665
Senator Rand Paul, M.D.
Office: (202) 224-4343
Senator Pat Roberts
Office: (202) 224-4774
Senator Mitt Romney
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.


4 comments:

  1. So-called "Hospice" care is often treatment with more and more morphine, so much so that then the patient, still conscious or somewhat conscious, effectivley drowns to death, before the loved ones gathered round. The other evil: organs to be harvested, sold, etc. are not salable and marketable unless taken from a living - that's right, LIVING-human being. The fine print on so many 'forms' provides for the taking of organs from a breathing, non-brain dead person. In Texas, a 'committee' in a hospital can deny care and, no matter what loved ones do, that decision cannot be changed. And denying care can and has included denial of food and water. If you are a Texan, do NOT let them keep your loved one so you can watch them begging for a drink or some food. At least take them out of the hospital so that they can die with you, in some peace. No surprise: some catholic bishops in Texas support this barbarism - of course, there is always the bottom line $$$ of church-related and church-sponsonered hospitals to take into account. Guy, Texas

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  2. A lot of people have no clue about what's going on. Both of my parents used at home hospice. My mom was living with us when she died. Hospitals are getting to be dangerous places where they can hold your loved ones hostage. That's happened more than once not only with notorious cases like Charlie Guard in the U.K. but here in the U.S. The culture of death is busy indeed.

    Your comment is worrying since I have a son who lies in Round Rock near Austin. And that is certainly a liberal area!

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  3. Is there a objective criterion for when a patient is no longer able to assimilate food? It seems like I've heard, from reputable prolifers, there is a very small such window at the very end of life... but I've never heard of how one would recognize it.

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  4. Dear MAK-Here is dertailed story re the barbarism of some Texans and their bishops:





    My name is Sandra Hollier, and I want to tell you a story that’s very personal to me.


    Trinity Lewis gave birth in February to her daughter, Tinslee, who had a congenital heart defect. Tinslee spent nine months in Cook Children’s Fort Worth Hospital, but on October 31, the administration told Trinity they would pull the plug on her daughter unless she found help in 10 days.


    My heart broke for Trinity and Tinslee the moment I saw her story.


    Why? Because I’ve been there.


    This is my 4-year-old son, Clifton, and me in 2012.


    On June 20, 2012, Clifton suffered a traumatic brain injury. He was flown to Children’s Memorial Hermann in Houston, and the doctors gave Clifton a ventilator, a feeding tube, and blood pressure medications. The doctors pressured me to give up and donate his organs, but I held out hope for my son’s life.


    Even though Clifton’s health was improving, the hospital called multiple “ethics committee” meetings to discuss pulling the plug against my will! There were as many as 25 people at each meeting, and most of them had never treated or even examined Clifton. When I tried to ask questions or fight for my son’s life, they said “This is not a courtroom for people to object. This isn’t up for discussion.”


    Over these weeks, Clifton’s health kept improving, until he no longer even needed the blood pressure medications! But the administration told me they were going to pull the plug anyway, and there was nothing I could do as they began the 10-day countdown.


    On July 27, 2012, I watched powerlessly as the doctor removed Clifton’s ventilator. They told me he would pass within 20 minutes, but my baby fought and convulsed for air for more than an hour. After what felt like an everlasting torture, my 4-year-old son, Clifton, died in my arms.


    Now, Trinity Lewis is being forced to undergo the same torture for her daughter, Tinslee.

    But we’re going up against the medical establishment, hospitals who spend millions of dollars every year on lawyers,



    Yours for Life,

    Sandra Hollier

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