MasterP said:
By the way, those “death panels” that “didn’t exist” were just removed from the bill. So nice that conservatives have been berated and dragged through the mud over this because “it doesn’t exist” when in fact it did exist. Kind of makes you wonder what else they’re saying about this might be true…
One of the Finance Committee’s own members commented that “We dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly.”
That same member also noted “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” and said that 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.”
you do realize that originally all the bill actually said was that it would cover OPTIONAL end-of-life consultations should people decide they wanted to make those decisions with their doctors, right? No different than signing a DNR now; the whole point was that the insurance would cover the consultation, thats it. Nobody was forced to choose how they want to die or anything like that.