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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (70694)	8/14/2009 9:06:57 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224749

Finance Committee to drop end-of-life provision By Michael O'Brien Posted: 08/13/09 thehill.com The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday. The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as "death panels" to encourage euthanasia. "On the Finance Committee, we are working very hard to avoid unintended consequences by methodically working through the complexities of all of these issues and policy options," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement. "We dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly." The Finance Committee is the only congressional committee not to report out a preliminary healthcare bill before the August congressional recess, but is expected to unveil its proposal shortly after Labor Day. Grassley said that bill would hold up better compared to proposals crafted in the House, which he asserted were "poorly cobbled together." "The bill passed by the House committees is so poorly cobbled together that it will have all kinds of unintended consequences, including making taxpayers fund healthcare subsidies for illegal immigrants," Grassley said. The veteran Iowa lawmaker said the end-of-life provision in those bills would pay physicians to "advise patients about end-of-life care and rate physician quality of care based on the creation of and adherence to orders for end-of-life care. "Maybe others can defend a bill like the Pelosi bill that leaves major issues open to interpretation, but I can't," Grassley added.

To: lorne who wrote (70694)	8/15/2009 7:45:39 AM
From: John Carragher	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

i guess that 11 year old from Malden Ma. would never have gotten into a town meeting in portsmouth n.h. if her and mom had to have a local i.d.??????????? plus the two bus loads of obama supporters that went into portsmouth town hall meeting.

To: lorne who wrote (70694)	8/15/2009 9:58:33 AM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Would you believe it--photo identification. Weren't the Democrats and Obama opposed to photo ID for voting?? Now they want photo id for attending a meeting that is a public meeting? "On his Web site, Green says "due to a coordinated effort to disrupt our town hall meetings, we will be restricting further attendance to residents ... and verifying residency by requiring photo identification." Who is to say that a person lives in his district and has a picture but is not a citizen??? Shouldn't it only be citizens of America at the meetings. Is he verifying that? mj