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Breaking: Finance Committee drops “death panel” provisions from Senate bill
posted at 3:23 pm on August 13, 2009 by Allahpundit

I’m surprised it took them this long. If it had been Palin and the right tossing rhetorical grenades, they might have gone to the mat to keep it in there, but as the ‘Cuda herself noted in her response to Obama last night, it ain’t just conservatives who are freaked out by these provisions. Eugene Robinson and Charles Lane at WaPo also concluded that having “outside” input into end-of-life decisions when the government’s desperate to cut costs could lead to abuse; Mickey Kaus and Camille Paglia have hammered The One about it too. And Obama’s done himself no favors trying to explain what he has in mind, as Tom Maguire reminds us. From an interview in April:

from MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Senate Finance Committee is dropping a controversial provision about end-of-life care from the health-care overhaul bill it is working on, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Thursday.

from The Hill
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.

And a stupid comment from the Boston Globe’s Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor, in a section named political intelligence. This blog has both complimented and insulted the Globe in the past. Hey Foon!! Who, other than you and other liberal interests, says the death panel provision ‘idea’ has been debunked??
Senate panel drops end-of-life provision
Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor August 13, 2009 02:45 PM

Though the idea that the health care overhaul bills call for “death panels” that would decide end-of-life care has been widely debunked, the Senate Finance Committee is dropping the controversial provision from its version.

The politically correct explanation from Grassley or others on dropping the provision from the Senate bill cites the risks, ‘misinterpretation of’ or ‘implementing incorrectly’. Is Foon trying to say public outrage had nothing to do with it? Probably. Sorry Foon, fear of an ass kicking in 2010 based on public outrage is the only reason it was dropped.

Just like gasoline prices falling from $4 or $5 per gallon to near the $2 level in the recent past was from massive declines in public consumption the faltering healthcare reform agenda of President Obama has been fueled by massive public outrage and opposition. Recall also that in the summer of 2007 shamnesty was defeated in Congress by the same pubic outrage. It is hoped that the collective learning curve of the general public will improve based on such information. If enough public pressure is applied the power brokers will submit. Keep it up folks!!

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