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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (17224)8/12/2009 6:54:47 AM
From: TideGlider3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
Obama was being a skillful liar by making reference to "end of life counseling" being paid for by the plan and stating that is what led people to think there would be death panels.

lol Good move Obama. You are correct. That part of the plan is rather benign. It is in the cost cutting measures in a different part of the plan that indicate quality of care for the elderly will suffer. Damn, it came from his own lips when he said maybe you don't need the operation and just take a pill.

For instance, Obama said the Democratic health care legislation would not create "death panels" to deny care to frail seniors -- or "basically pull the plug on grandma because we decided that it's too expensive to let her live anymore," as the president put it. The provision he said had led to such talk would only authorize Medicare to pay doctors for counseling patients about end-of-life care if they want it, he contended.
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