See Igor, he's perfectly safe now that I've slightly filed his left pinky fingernail. Tell the crazy, Nazi, anti-American, astroturf FReepers to shut up.
Posted on 08/13/2009 11:53:07 AM PDT by nomoremods
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 being derided as "death panels" to encourage euthanasia by conservatives.
"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at briefingroom.thehill.com ...
Even THEY admit it could have had unintended consequences. Palin was right...again.
I guess odumbo was lying because how can you drop something that didnt exist
Gee,O said it didn’t exist to began with,What a lying sack of sh!t.
“Finance Committee drops end-of-life provision”
Only for now.
Looks we call know the growing government - over the years rationing will all be put in by policy not a vote.
So how do they save money now? And who pays the tab for increasing the already unsustainable deficit. You cannot insure 47 million new patients, with no new doctors and save money. It simply doesn’t compute.
Another question — Does anyone actually trust their zero trade in value congressional clunker to live by what they say? What about the oath they take?
To me this is just a sop to try and get the heat off.
Bad news. Republicans taking away the most outrageous provisions of the health care bill making it more palatable and more likely to pass. Keep in mind that every single government programs gets bigger and worse over time. Republicans are apparently working on getting this passed.
All the really bad stuff will come back, will have to come back. Thanks GOP. (Note: Did not say RINO’s)
Can’t they just take a stand when we are actually winning.
Give Palin credit for this. I am not a big Palin for President supporter, but she should get credit for getting that language out of the bill.
The rest of the RNC, and GOP leaders could not do what an outsider could. (Outsider Meaning Living Outside The Beltway)
Wrong, Grassley. "Death Panels" was EXACTLY the way the Dems would have implemented them. There was no misinterpretation whatsoever.
Thank you Sarah Palin, and all the Town Haller Patriots!
And speaking of rationing, there is nothing in the bill that says there will be rationing.
What's interesting about that is that the republicans tried 3 times to add an amendment that would guarantee no rationing of health care.
Three times the dems voted those down.
Heck if they passed those, they wouldn't be able to put in rationing later!
There is hardly anything in any of these bills about health care.
It's mostly permission for Obama to appoint people to the panels to decide what care is avaiable and what is not.
One of Obama's advisors believes that a fetus has an age of 33 months, so as to check the "quality of life" of a kid up to the age of two and if it doesn't fit the right guidelines it could be "aborted". That's right, at 2 years old!
Maybe.
How long will it take before we see the first “End-of-Life Counselor” shot dead on a front porch in Texas?
“It’s mostly permission for Obama to appoint people to the panels to decide what care is avaiable and what is not.”
Is that not the definition of Rationing?
This is a step in the right direction, but it is not the important thing. The problem is still the Health Benefits Advisory Committee. That is the “death panel.: (Some of my line numberings may be wrong, but the statements are copied right from the House bill)
SEC. 123. HEALTH BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
12 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—
13 (1) IN GENERAL.—There is established a
14 private-public advisory committee which shall be a
15 panel of medical and other experts to be known as
16 the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to
17 recommend covered benefits and essential, enhanced,
18 and premium plans.
Not only rationing, but anything they want.
1000 pages of gobblygook and permission to do what ever they want.
Like no more private ins starting in 1113.
Written in lawayereze, but Beck translated it last nite on his show.
LOL.
I can envision that grandma character from Clint Eastwoods movie “Any Which Way But Loose”. Remember the grandma that had the shotgun! I can see that type of character pullin g out the shotgun when an end of life thug comes around.
The Democrats drop a few of the outrageous parts in hope we will allow their OmamaCare bill to become law.
Don’t give in to this tactic. O-care is bad as it government take over of a significant part of the economy and intrusive as to our personal privacy/personal choice. It creates a massive bureaucracy on the scale of the British health system—which is the 3rd largest bureaucracy in the world after India’s railway and the Red Chinese Army.
Say no to the whole deal.
See Igor, he's perfectly safe now that I've slightly filed his left pinky fingernail. Tell the crazy, Nazi, anti-American, astroturf FReepers to shut up.
Yes! Ha-hah! Not too many people will be applying for those “End-of-Life Counselor” jobs!
More dangerous than working as a teacher in an inner city school run by gangs!
Big tactical victory for Sarah Palin! Now to move forward and win the campaign, and then the war...
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