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The Senate Finance Committee, which is trying to craft a bipartisan health care reform bill, will drop a provision which mandates consultations for end-of-life care from the measure, according to the ranking Republican member. Author and talk show host Tammy Bruce says the committee's decision is the result of Palin Power. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) issued a statement Thursday announcing that the committee will drop the controversial provision after former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in a series of statements on her Facebook page, criticized "death panels" that conservatives say would encourage the practice of euthanasia: "On the Finance Committee, we...

Betsy McCaughey (former Lt. Governor and infection expert from NY) says only HMO managed care type plans that "limits access to specialists" are allowed under the House Bill. So is you have a plan that allows you to go directly to a specialist "you will forced to give up that plan for a managed care style plan."

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's brother, a physician, appointed to Obama health care job admits killing old people is the only way to cut costs! DEADLY DOCTORS O ADVISERS WANT TO RATION CARE By BETSY MCCAUGHEY New York Post July 24, 2009 Emanuel: Believes in withholding care from elderly for greater good. THE health bills coming out of Congress would put the decisions about your care in the hands of presidential appointees. They'd decide what plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have and what seniors get under Medicare. Yet at least two of President Obama's top...

Treating people equally 1. Lottery Hard to corrupt; little information about recipients needed, Ignores other relevant principles Military draft; schools; vaccination Include 2. First-come, first-served Protects existing doctor-patient relationships; little information about recipients needed, Favours wealthy, powerful, and well-connected; ignores other relevant principles ICU beds; part of organ allocation Exclude Favouring the worst-off : prioritarianism 3. Sickest first Aids those who are suffering right now; appeals to “rule of rescue”; makes sense in temporary scarcity; proxy for being worst off overall, Surreptitious use of prognosis; ignores needs of those who will become sick in future; might falsely assume temporary scarcity;...