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The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday.
The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as “death panels” to encourage euthanasia.
“On the Finance Committee, we are working very hard to avoid unintended consequences by methodically working through the complexities of all of these issues and policy options,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement. “We dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly.”
Health reform is going down in flames. I love it.
It’s always easier to be a challenger, promising anything and everything to get elected. Whatever happened to “transparency” and “sunlight” of the Yes We Can Generation? They tried to rush through a bill no one read or knew what was in it. That might work for a Jack Murtha airport, but health care is kind of a big deal.
They should have taken a clue from Hank:
“Oh… that! I wasn’t gonna just… ram it home, you know. I was gonna… lube it up and ease it in there, inch by inch, like a gentleman.”
Convince us we need this “urgent reform” before ramming it home, BO.
But, But, But,,,,,,,,,,,,,, now we’re told that “………….it must have been a slow news day” and End of Life discussions, as well as everything else, is still on the table.
It’s so frustrating trying to follow this fiasco.
I actually really like this health care death panel idea, as in conservatives need to assemble a “Health Care Death Panel” of groups and individuals committed to killing any possibility of health care “reform.” Run ads, mobilizing the troops, etc.
Now THAT is a death panel I can support!