Finance Committee drops end-of-life provision

The Hill ^ | 8-13-09 | Michael O'Brien

[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."

[floriduh voter]

That’s what the nazi’s did. When Pelosi said there were swastikas, you’re darn straight there were some. Nazi stands for national socialist party. That’s what the democrats are. If she doesn’t like nazi symbolism, Pelosi should stop acting like a national socialist.

[DrewsMum]

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