Ethics

More on the "Death Panel" Provision

By Ed Brayton

The New Republic has more details on that provision to pay for consultations to help people prepare living wills in case they become incapacitated and a couple of interesting things come out that, yet again, show the utter hypocrisy and dishonesty of the GOP on this provision.

Like the fact that a Republican legislator tried to put in an amendment to make such consultations mandatory and it was defeated, in favor of the version that is in the bill that makes them voluntary:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).