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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsRepublicans: For "Death Panels" Before They Were Against Them
By Ed Brayton
The more the right wing tries to push this meme that healthcare reform is going to kill off grandma and grind her up into soylent green, the more idiotic and hypocritical they look. Amy Sullivan at Time's Swampland blog did some digging and found a virtually identical provision passed in Bush's medicare prescription drug plan in 2003, a provision widely supported by Republicans then. That bill said:
The covered services are: evaluating the beneficiary's need for pain and symptom management, including the individual's need for hospice care; counseling the beneficiary with respect to end-of-life issues and care options, and advising the beneficiary regarding advanced care planning.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).
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