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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (31404)8/14/2009 2:49:36 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
     There's no death panel, silly, just some independent group
     that can give you some guidance about whether the 
     government will pull the plug on grandma.

Guidance = Death?

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By JAMES TARANTO

Blogger Tom Maguire digs into the question of whether ObamaCare will entail the establishment of "death panels," as Alaska's former governor Sarah Palin fears. Maguire finds this April interview with David Leonhardt of the New York Times:


<<< Obama: So that's where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that's also a huge driver of cost, right?

I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out here.


Leonhardt: So how do you--how do we deal with it?


Obama: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that's part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It's not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. And that's part of what I suspect you'll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now. >>>


"The rumor that's been circulating a lot lately," as Obama said the other day, "is this idea that somehow the House of Representatives voted for ‘death panels' that will basically pull the plug on grandma because we've decided that we don't--it's too expensive to let her live anymore. (Laughter.)" There's no death panel, silly, just some independent group that can give you some guidance about whether the government will pull the plug on grandma.

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