Yes, all these groups want Seniors dead right?
The American Medical Association, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and Consumers Union are among the groups supporting the provision. AARP, the seniors' lobby, is taking out print advertisements this week that label as false the claim that the legislation will empower the government to take over life-and-death decisions from individuals.
Plus all those Democrats just want Seniors dead right?
Never mind the fact that Sarah Palin had supported similar language for the people of Alaska not so long ago.
I mean holy fuck, even Geraldo who is the master of bullshit knows it when he sees it:
MyProps.org - FOX's Geraldo Rivera Calls Sarah Palins Obama's "Death Panels" Bullshit - reddit politics
Here's a recent article from The New York Times since you seem so bent on posting articles Sinatra:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/health/policy/14panel.html
Then again, we already have Death Panels to be perfectly honest, but it wouldn't matter to you probably:
The "death panels" are already here | Salon News
IN FACT, guess who got the provision added about living wills?
Three guesses, and the first two don't count.
CHARLES BOUSTANY!
One often-cited provision of the bill authorizes Medicare reimbursement for physicians who provide voluntary counseling about such subjects as living wills.[10][11] The provision is based on a separate bill that was cosponsored by Republican Charles Boustany of Louisiana, a surgeon.[12]
This Advance Care Planning Consultation section was criticized by some Republicans and conservatives, such as Betsy McCaughey, a lobbyist for the healthcare industry who also helped to defeat the Clinton health care plan of 1993,[13] who allege that it includes mandatory language aimed at pressing elderly patients toward euthanasia.[10] That provision was the basis for the charge about this section by prominent Republican and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin that "my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."[11] This claim is misleading. The "level of productivity in society" or panels claim are not mentioned in the actual legislation,[14] which is structured primarily to amend[14] a specific clause in the Social Security Act, Section 1861[15] of definitions that are used in sections regarding reimbursements. Charles Boustany's Democratic cosponsor, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, has called this attack on the bill "an all-time low".[12]
America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Now why does that name Charles Boustany sound familiar?
Oh right!
Boustany rebukes Obama speech - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com