There is a particularly disgusting and detestable propaganda tactic being wielded by those who would destroy any chance at health care reform: The rightwing scaremongering fantasy of a perverted plot by heartless liberals to deny people lifesaving care and instead force them into grim government death camps, a/k/a hospice, to die on the cheap -- all in the name of rationing health care and saving money. If you're unfortunate enough to have forwarders of rightwing email swill among your acquaintance, you've probably already been spammed with this filth.
I find it difficult to reply with civility to those who parrot this nonsense out of ignorance; words cannot express the fury I feel toward those who spread such malicious garbage knowingly.
Why? Because I have seen at first hand the compassionate reality that is hospice.