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To: Don Hurst who wrote (503969)	8/12/2009 12:09:54 PM
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"For those of us who believe that the absence of universal health care is America's burning shame, the spectacle of opposition to Obama's health care plan is 'Alice in Wonderland' bewildering and also enraging - but on one point the plan's critics are absolutely correct. One of the key ideas under consideration - which can be read as expressing sympathy for limitations on end-of-life care - is morally revolting. And it's helping to kill the plan itself," Lee Siegel writes at www.thedailybeast.com. "Make no mistake about it. Determining which treatments are 'cost effective' at the end of a person's life and which are not is one of Obama's priorities. It's one of the principal ways he counts on saving money and making universal health care affordable," Mr. Siegel said. "Obama told Diane Sawyer in June that government should 'study and figure out what works and what doesn't. And let's encourage doctors and patients to get what works. Let's discourage what doesn't.' "Sawyer then asked him: 'Will it just be encouragement? Or will there be a board making Solomonic decisions?' "Obama replied, 'What I've suggested is - is that we have a - a commission that helps - made up of doctors, made up of experts, that helps set best - best practices.' "When Sawyer pressed him to say whether those practices would be enforced by law, he evaded the question. "This reeks of the Big Brother nightmare of oppressive government that the shrewd propagandists on the right are always blathering on about. Except that this time, they could not be more right."