"July of 2009 is really when this party started over “death panels” or “end-of-life-care.” At that time the United States House of Representatives had passed through all its’ committees a bill entitled “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” which had language that, as a healthcare provider, I found to be standard operating procedure for anyone in a hospital who was facing an end-of-life situation. For no obvious reason other than to create a distracting non-issue to gain political hit-points, Betsy McCaughey a former New York lieutenant governor said in a radio interview that Medicare would require recipients every five years to have their doctors tell them how to end their lives sooner. Please read HR 3200, Sec 1233 and see if this true. Sarah Palin then started a campaign of misinformation saying that the provisions called for an involuntary “death panel” to be convened and decide how and when the elderly would die. It’s kind of like saying Jews have horns and eat Christian children for dinner, a little Goebbelsesque frankly."
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