secular
September 10th, 2009, 10:05pm
Sarah Palin is at it again. She's insisting that the health care bill under construction in Congress will cause the creation of "death panels." She was invited to testify before the New York Senate's Aging Committee on health care reform and instead sent the committee a letter that she also posted on her Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?v=app_2347471856&viewas=663029186&ref=search). In that letter, she says:
A great deal of attention was given to my use of the phrase "death panel" in discussing such rationing. Despite repeated attempts by many in the media to dismiss this phrase as a "myth," its accuracy has been vindicated.
But expert after expert has declared that there are no "death panels" in the health care legislation being considered by Congress. What experts? you ask. According to the Associated Press, leaders of the National Council on Aging, AARP, the American Medical Association, and the National Right to Life Committee have each said "death panels" would not be set up by this legislation. The provision that caused the fuss in the first place simply would allow Medicare to pay for voluntary end-of-life counseling sessions. Note the word voluntary. Still, in her letter to the Aging Committee, Palin contends that "death panels" are real, as she mangles various end-of-life policy matters.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/09/palin-resurrects-death-panels-the-latest-in-obama-bashing/
A great deal of attention was given to my use of the phrase "death panel" in discussing such rationing. Despite repeated attempts by many in the media to dismiss this phrase as a "myth," its accuracy has been vindicated.
But expert after expert has declared that there are no "death panels" in the health care legislation being considered by Congress. What experts? you ask. According to the Associated Press, leaders of the National Council on Aging, AARP, the American Medical Association, and the National Right to Life Committee have each said "death panels" would not be set up by this legislation. The provision that caused the fuss in the first place simply would allow Medicare to pay for voluntary end-of-life counseling sessions. Note the word voluntary. Still, in her letter to the Aging Committee, Palin contends that "death panels" are real, as she mangles various end-of-life policy matters.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/09/palin-resurrects-death-panels-the-latest-in-obama-bashing/