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Originally Posted by coadie
Death Panel Bus
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WASHINGTON, D.C., August 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The US Senate has sounded a hasty retreat on "death panels" in health-care reform by striking out the provision on "end-of-life counseling" from the bill.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), announced last week that the Senate Finance Committee
has now expunged all "end-of-life" provisions from the Senate version of health-care reform in order "to avoid unintended consequences."
Grassley admitted in a statement Wednesday that the storm of controversy surrounding the "end-of-life" provisions in detailed in section 1233 of the House version (H.R. 3200) expressed legitimate concerns that the elderly and infirm could end up pressured into lower-quality care or none at all.
"We dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely," said Grassley, "because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly."
That is nice to know the end of life provisions are removed. Twisp said they weren't in there.
