George Soros and Obama Care

by Judie Brown

There is a man whose money has facilitated a wide variety of projects in this country and abroad. His name is George Soros, and his ventures run the gamut from politics to helping the poor. Among them, there is his extraordinary work in the area of palliative care (pain relief), death and dying.

In view of the rant currently being propagated by the Pallimed blog, which is a commentary on news and items of interest to hospice and palliative medicine, there is a need to dig deeper and explore the underlying philosophy among those who are outraged that people like me are saying something negative about their agenda.

When those in the business of providing pain relief to patients charge forward with negative descriptive adjectives, meant to demean the work of people like myself and the LifeTree experts, you can pretty much conclude that we are on to something. If not, the supporters of Obamacare would be using logic rather than pointing fingers and attempting to relegate us to the right-wing fringe.

It’s a free country, but the facts are essentially unchanging regardless of the hysteria. In the real world where people live and die, a recent e-mail from a hospice nurse reminds us that all is not well in health care:


How grateful I am to have run across your website! This may be an answer to a desperate prayer! I am a nurse who has practiced for 17 years. I am horrified about hospice, and how they routinely and blatantly murder patients on a regular basis, and somehow convince the patients and their families that their actions are "merciful" and reduce suffering when in actuality they are increasing the suffering of these patients and refusing any life-sustaining and true comfort measures. I feel so powerless to convince people about the truth of hospice, since many have used and been fooled by them and their propaganda. …[I]t is going to be hard to convince people about the truth of hospice, since they have worked very hard to create "trust" in people who clearly don't know the truth. People need to know the truth; they need to know about how hospice KILLS and does not comfort.

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Comments

  1. Jeanne8/12/09, 2:47 PM

    Jean, publishing that statement from the nurse is a big statement to make. Can you link to more information to clarify her position? Ask her to write her story out? I, like many others, have been led to believe that hospice care is compassionate care. If you feel otherwise or are privy to information contrary to that and that supports the strong claim that hospices murder people, can you share it? Thanks.

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  2. Jean Heimann8/12/09, 11:38 PM

    Jeanne,

    You may want to direct your comment to Judie Brown, the author of this post. I have linked to her complete post at the end and she links to many sources in her article.

    Thanks for your comment, Jeanne.

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  3. Jean Heimann8/13/09, 12:02 AM

    Respond to Judie http://www.all.org/newsroom_judieblog_response.php?id=2714

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