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LynnTheDem

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Wed Sep-09-09 11:46 AM
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22. Poor foolish Palin'. Darlin', that was GEORGE W. bUSH, REPUBLICAN wth the death panel

In 1999, then-Gov. Bush signed the Advance Directives Act, which lets a patient's surrogate make life-ending decisions on his or her behalf. The measure also allows Texas hospitals to disconnect patients from life-sustaining systems if a physician, in consultation with a hospital bioethics committee, concludes that the patient's condition is hopeless.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002215324_texaslaw22.html

Making Medicare reimburse patients who want living wills etc is NOT a "death panel" you deeply stupid quitter.

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