Health Care Debate - Lewistown, PA

I support the President.

Medicare is the closest thing to Government health care as you will get and it doesn't take long to see who is the benificery of it . People that have never bothered to get health care all their life, depending on a medical card, use of the Hospital ER as a doctors office , but now they turned 65 years of age and the government is going to take care of them. The people that did the right thing and had health care all their life and turns 65 now has to pay even more under Medicare than they did with private insurance through their employer.

Robert Broome wrote:

I support the President.

Hello Bob, but keep an eye out for these attack dogs on here, before you know it they will be using that BROOME to sweep steets on here. Hope your enjoying your retirement. I hope Medicare leaves you enough money left out of your SS check to live on the rest of the month. The Government never does anything right. Everything they touch goes broke.

Lewistown Resident. You're making too much sense on this forum.

Where's the money????? What another government handout...NO THANKS!! They think they have a job problem now just wait and see what this does to employers and their employees.

Don't believe the deceptive advertising that the Geisinger Medicare health plan will give you the Freedom to choose any Doctor or Hospital.

I wonder if this dying in Lewistown without an Obituary in the media, is Part of that Obama new health plan, you know the "End of Life" counseling part. I know of at least two people now, one just last month, that died without an Obituary in the paper, nothing, but they will show up later in the IN MEMORY Column, Maybe next year. Has society gone that far now that life has no value? Is Obituaries going to be like Hospital Admissions and discharges here, Gone?

Maybe this is where we are headed

http://www.wjla.com/news/aploader.html...

Lewistown Resident wrote:

I wonder if this dying in Lewistown without an Obituary in the media, is Part of that Obama new health plan, you know the "End of Life" counseling part. I know of at least two people now, one just last month, that died without an Obituary in the paper, nothing, but they will show up later in the IN MEMORY Column, Maybe next year. Has society gone that far now that life has no value? Is Obituaries going to be like Hospital Admissions and discharges here, Gone?

Obituaries cost money. A typical obituary in the Sentinel costs about $300. An extra long one goes for about $500. The Sentinel is a bargain. That same obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer would cost about $1,000, of course, a lot more people would read it.

Obituaries, like Hospital Admissions are a private matter. Nothing is more private that your death and health. If an individual wants an obituary, and is willing to pay for one, it should be in the newspaper. Otherwise, someone's death is none of your business.

I agree wholeheartedly that Hospital Admissions should not be in the paper. Why do you need to know who is admitted to the hospital? Whay do you want to know? I'll answer for you. You want entertainment and gossip?

I would also make 911 calls and police communications private if I had my way.

Milroy wrote:

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Obituaries, like Hospital Admissions are a private matter. Nothing is more private that your death and health. If an individual wants an obituary, and is willing to pay for one, it should be in the newspaper. Otherwise, someone's death is none of your business.

After these people are dead, they are not making decisions for the people they leave behind, I think it is disrespectful to them not to have an Obituary, and the people that do this is only looking at themself. So your comment fits your personality.

If it is important to you to to have an obitutary, I suggest that you pre plan your funeral, and write your own obituary. That way, you won't need to depend on somebody else to make the decision to cough up $300.

It is likely that the people that don't have obituaries don't have them for 1 of the 3 reasons below.

1) They don't want one. In which case, you should respect the decision.

2) They are their family can't afford one. Again, you should respect their situation. If you are really concerned about it, you can pay for their obituary.

3) They want one, and could afford one, but didn't pre-plan. Therefore, el-cheapo family didn't get one for them. In this case, the blame goes to dead guy who didn't plan ahead.

Milroy wrote:

If it is important to you to to have an obitutary, I suggest that you pre plan your funeral, and write your own obituary. That way, you won't need to depend on somebody else to make the decision to cough up $300.

At my funeral home the first 15 lines are included in the service cost, and after that it is so much a line, The government is going to give my wife $255.00 so she will use that. Remember they gave me $30.00 one time in food stamps after the flood when you could not get to work, now when I die they are going to give my wife $255 but they won't expect me to pay that back since I gave them all that money in my lifetime.