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This is the story of the intentionally "below-the-radar" changes that have been aggressively pursued in our society for decades.Because these changes are not covered by the major media in any coherent, connected way, or at all, the public has difficulty "putting a finger" on what is happening and why.

They see changes here and there as situations arise in their lives, especially in health care.

They hear stories about what is happening and mistakenly assume they are isolated incidents.Sometimes, they just can't believe the changes that have already been made.They seem so "foreign" to what American society is all about, and the reason they seem "foreign" is they do not arise from American Constitutional values.

Some people are frightened by these changes, changes that seem to be imposed upon society without the approval of the majority of citizens.

They question the wisdom of abandoning the traditional values that formed the foundation for American life.They question the declining percentages of Americans who support the traditional value of a family, marriage, sanctity of life, faith in God, the value of work and the opportunity to get ahead in a free society.They wonder how we have strayed so far.

They question whether we are still truly free to express our religious faith in a public setting, or even whether the dedication to "do no harm" within health care is the prevailing mindset.Shockingly, often it is not.

If you want to know what all that "death panel" talk is really all about, this is the book that explains exactly what is going on and will be going on.

There are no formal "death panels," but there are bureaucrats in government, HMOs, and private health insurance companies whose decisions knowingly result in denied tests, denied treatments and certain death in many cases.

Politicians say, we are not going to ration care.But they will set in motion many processes that reduce reimbursement under the guise of limiting expenditures, or keeping costs down, and these processes will result in rationing care.

You may not realize this, but leaders in government of both political parties are promoting palliative and hospice care as the destination, your destination ...the end of the road in a patient's health care journey.There is no need for something to be called a "death panel."

We don't want to think about "death and dying" even if some have been shouting the "death and dying" talk from the rooftops.

There have been thousands of news articles and speakers all across the country promoting the wonders of end-of-life care, and there is much good that can be done when dedicated professionals make their best effort to relieve suffering at the end-of-life.However, there are some who have dedicated their lives to move American society away from its traditional values, and they have not been asleep.

When physicians, attorneys and judges as well as other leaders of our society no longer affirm the sanctity of life, and when leaders within health care no longer pledge to "do no harm," there is no obstacle to the devaluation of selected lives and the discarding of those lives.

The modern hospice movement with its openness to caring for the dying with family present, with its recognition of the opportunity for healing in family relationships at the end-of-life, and its focus on working to do a better job at pain and symptom management has been a wonderful thing.But this positive step has been negated in many segments of the industry due to financial or utilitarian concerns.


Did you know that the largest hospice organization in our nation is the successor organization to the Euthanasia Society of America?

Did you know that according to the most prominent hospice leaders in the world, many hospices in the United States today have no reservations about hastening death through a method called "terminal sedation," (also "palliative sedation" or "total sedation")