'Bean Counters' Given Death-Panel Powers

Terri Schiavo Foundation intervenes to help save 13-year-old ‘brain-dead’ patient

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BOB UNRUH

The chief of a foundation set up to help disabled people in life-threatening situations is warning Americans that the horrors his sister faced before her death a few years ago, and those burdens now being faced by the family of Jahi McMath, will just get worse.

Because the government is taking over healthcare.

Life-or-death medical decisions typically have been made by families and doctors, but Bobby Schindler, of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, said that has been changing for some time.

That’s because “ethics panels” and medical facility “boards” were getting involved in making determinations about who lived and who died, based on the factors of their illness, needs, treatment, expenses and resources.

But now he warns that the government, through Obamacare, will be taking over.

“People need to realize that ethics boards, hospital boards have been making decisions [about treatments] we’re receiving or not receiving. It will be worse with government-controlled health care,” he told WND today.

“They’re taking medical decisions out of the family’s hands and putting it into the hands of bean counters.”

That such government intervention in life will happen already has been confirmed by physician and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who admitted Sarah Palin was right – because health care will have to be rationed under Obamcare, “death panels” will have to decide who gets critical care and potentially life-saving treatments.

Schindler said his organization is set up to fight for the handicapped or otherwise helpless when facing a life-endangering situation, and that’s how he got involved in the fight for the life of Jahi McMath.

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