Threat Over Health Care Reform

 

Last Friday, someone left a threating message on my office phone because I deal with living wills, which help people make life-or-death decisions beforehand – in case they are ever put on life support. But somehow, confused people believe I am promoting the violence and confrontations at recent town hall meetings about health care reform.

The anonymous caller said, "People like me need to be stopped because I are enabling a person who is planning to cause violence in our country. And my organization will be protested this weekend and they are going to go after me."

I deal with living wills, estate planning, medicare and medicaid advice – not health care reform.

"And they are ignorant, some people are, saying I talk about the same thing that the administration is talking about – so I must be part of the whole gestapo regime, which is not the case.

"This is nonsense. My wife looks at it, and she's afraid for our safety now."

I am glad that no protest actually materialized at my seminar in Bellevue. Maybe because I-405 was closed due to construction work….

"What we need to be doing is coming together to help people age better and live better." "I have no skin in the game as to whether the administration does with the health care plan. It will be what it will be."

There is one element of Obama's plan that's like a living will – it lets you decide your own fate if you're incapacitated.

Opponents say the plan calls for "death panels" that would make that decision, but today the president denied again that there is such a thing in place. I will encourage people not to wait for the government to make that decision for us. Be responsible and act today, make your own decision and have a living will in place for yourself.

KOMO News was kind enough to interview me on the subject.

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