From the DAILY MAIL:

Step by grudging step – and led by this paper – official Britain has begun to wake up to the scandal of the Liverpool Care  Pathway.

The LCP is intended to ease the final hours  of patients who are close to death and to spare them the suffering associated  with invasive treatment.

Numerous relatives have claimed, however,  that their loved ones were put on the Pathway – which involves the withdrawal of  food and fluids as well as medical treatment – without their  consent.

Far worse, they claimed that some of these  patients were not in fact dying when they were put on the Pathway, but were then  starved and dehydrated to death as a result.

Read more HERE

 IPAB is the Obamacare version of LCP.

From the AMERICAN SPECTATOR:

IPAB was created pursuant to section 3403 of the ironically named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and its ostensible purpose is to “control costs.” In reality, it will do nothing at all about costs. Instead, the board’s fifteen “experts” will impose old-fashioned price controls. Before Obamacare was signed into law in March of 2010, only Congress had the power to make changes to Medicare’s reimbursement rates. But PPACA, for all intents and purposes, transfers that power to this tiny cadre of presidential appointees who will have no accountability to the voters. In theory, IPAB can onlypropose changes to Medicare’s payment rates. In practice, however, the board’s proposals will take effect automatically unless Congress passes contrary legislation and the President signs it into law.

Read more HERE

…and isn’t this is the ultimate example of ”life immitates art”?

 

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