O'Donnell revives Palin's 'death panel' claim on health reform, study shows opposite

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http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/119545-odonnell-revives-palins-death-panel-claim

Christine O'Donnell, the Tea-Party Republican vying to fill Joe Biden's Senate seat in Delaware, jumped head-first into the thorny healthcare debate this week, accusing Democratic policymakers of wanting to snuff out the old and infirm because they're expensive to treat.

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"Bureaucrats and politicians in Washington think they should decide what kind of light bulbs we use, what kind of toilets we flush, what kind of car we drive. … They even want unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care and who is just too old or it's too expensive to be worth saving."


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A study published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine found that end-of-life care was shown to extend the lives of terminally ill lung-cancer patients by nearly three months. Moreover, the researchers discovered that those patients were happier and experienced less pain in their final weeks.

The report, said Diane E. Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "shows that palliative care is the opposite of all that rhetoric about ‘death panels.'"

[Angry Dragon]

1. unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care

Isn't that what health care providers do right now, today??

When is she going to slam huckabee for his statements saying the pre-existing conditions should not be covered??
Too expensive ..........

republicans can talk out of both ends at the same time and one has trouble telling which end smells worse....

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2. the tea party is exempt from ever telling the truth