Breaking: Finance Committee to drop end-of-life provision
Just in from The Hill:
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.”
The Finance Committee is the only congressional committee not to report out a preliminary healthcare bill before the August congressional recess, but is expected to unveil its proposal shortly after Labor Day.
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It really is a poser, Granite. The “person” actually does seem to shift significantly.
As to the Graeae, two things: I think I dated them, and, secondly,…WOW…I am impressed by your knowledge of mythology.
They took out the “end of Life” part that wasn’t in the bill. How nice. And then they slip it back in when it goes to secret conference where they slip in at the last minute their little secret pork and other goodies. Let’s not be fooled by this “BAIT AND SWITCH”. Since they denied that the “end of Life” was ever in the bill and now have admitted it was in the bill, we can not believe these liars and deceivers. Oh wait- Obama campaigned that these debates in conference would be transparent so we can watch. Yah right!!!!!!!! Another Lie.
floam- Sorry I repeated most of what you have already said. It wasn’t showing when I began my comments.
A lot of “experts” and deceivers owe Sarah a big apology. I am sure it will be forth coming.
Do not be fooled, people!!! They will do this a lot. They will take out the most controvertial parts that people yell about the most. Then sneak them back in at midnight. There is NO TRUTH IN THESE PEOPLE. Everything that is in the bill right now is there because they put them there. Why would they do that if they didn’t truly want those things in there??? Since they don’t really care what the people think, and are only saying what they think we want to hear, why should we believe they intend to take all these things out and KEEP them out? Do they have a track record of doing that? Just the opposite. They are sneaky, slimy, crapweasels and corruption oozes from every stinking pore. I can’t believe I just said that…but it is an apt description. I am becoming more and more convinced every day that this country is being run by totally immoral people who want to radically change us into a socialist or even communist country.
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