Senate Committee Cancels Death Panels, Must Find Another Way to Kill Grandma
From Indecision…
Well, score one for Sarah Palin, negative eleventy billion for reading comprehension. The Senate Finance Committee has removed the part of its health care bill that called for Medicare to cover living wills and hospice planning, just because people decided to panic about nonexistent death panels…
A Senate panel has decided to scrap the part of its healthcare bill that in recent days has given rise to fears of government "death panels," with one lawmaker suggesting the proposal was just too confusing.
The Senate Finance Committee is taking the idea of advance care planning consultations with doctors off the table as it works to craft its version of healthcare legislation, a Democratic committee aide said Thursday.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the committee [Ed. note: and potential victim!], said the panel dropped the idea because it could be "misinterpreted or implemented incorrectly."
The lesson here is that you can force the cancellation of anything you dislike by giving it an outrageous label, over and over, regardless of "actual reality." Try it and see!
For example, would you like to have the rest of the day off from work? Of course not, you want to be freed from a forced labor camp. Now go make some signs to that effect and wave them at your boss the warden — if he's a Real American, he'll get the message.
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