Rush: Docs shouldn't say the 'd-word' to old people

Rush can't stop himself. He can't stop trying to scare old people, not even when a Republican physician calls in and tells him that simply talking with old people about their end-of-life options, if they want to, is a good thing.

Rush himself is probably planning to live forever. He's probably given $ millions to quacks who will cryogenically freeze him in a metal tube until the cure for fatness or stupidity is discovered, then they'll re-animate him. (The sci-fi irony will be that, in the future, there really will be One World Government that meets everybody's needs; there won't be any war or hunger, no more rich and poor; and so Rush will re-awaken to find himself in Hell on Earth). Or Rush is going to have his head preserved in a bell jar like in Futurama, so that he can go on running his mouth for centuries…. But no matter what, Rush doesn't want to talk to his doctor about what happens if he gets really sick or just plain old. He doesn't want to actually talk about d-d-d-death. Yuck. No way. Mortality is for other people, not for him. Jeez, what a typical spoiled, self-absorbed Baby Booomer he is.

Obamacare is Really "End of Care"

July 30, 2009 | The Rush Limbaugh Show

CALLER: I am a physician and I practice geriatric medicine and I wanted to make a comment on this-every-five-year conversation on advanced care planning. First of all, I'll say that I hope this health care reform bill does not pass. In fact, I'd love to get rid of Medicare altogether. But I think this-every-five-year discussion is actually a good idea. It's something that I do with my patients often, have discussions about who their health care power of attorney should be, their advanced care plan, but I cannot reimburse Medicare for doing that. Medicare won't pay me for that, and so this is actually one piece of the legislation I think is a good idea.

RUSH: Well, if you think it's a good idea, and you want to have death care discussion with your patients and they wish to consent to death care discussions with you, then that's fine. If you want to run your practice that way and your patients are cool with it. But I will be damned if it's going to be become federally mandated law that the government hires a bunch of counselors that has these death care -- as you call it, death care -- discussions, "end-of-life discussions." Really what those discussions are, when you call it "death care" or "end of life," it's "end of care." That's what the counselors are preparing these people for: end of care, 'cause they're getting old and it isn't going to be worth of investment. It's right in the House bill!