"Death panel" architect a pro-life Republican from Georgia?

[kpete]

Source: Institute For Southern Studies

"Death panel" architect a pro-life Republican from Georgia?

Last week former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin posted a statement to her Facebook page in which she warned that President Obama's health care reform plan would result in a so-called "death panel" with the power to kill elderly people and those with disabilities:

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But there is nothing resembling the alleged "death panel" in the health care reform plan. A spokesperson for Palin told ABC News that the former governor was referring to a section promoting advance care planning that appears on page 425 of the House Democrats' bill http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf. Advance care planning includes living wills and durable powers of attorney that allow individuals to make clear their wishes for end-of-life care, whatever they may be.

And as it turns out, the cause of advance planning has been championed especially strongly by a pro-life Republican -- U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia.

Isakson has been promoting advance care planning for years. In 2007, for example, he co-sponsored two bills to encourage such planning -- the Medicare End-of-Life Care Planning Act and the Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act.


Read more: http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/08/death-panel-architect-a-pro-life-republican-from-georgia.html

[dhpgetsit]

1. Challenge the bitch

(Apologies to all female dogs.)

Challenge Palin and anyone else who uses that kind if language to explain where they heard it and why they are repeating it.

[BOSSHOG]

4. I think sarah should do some research

she should spend a year locked in an alzheimer's ward of a nursing home then tell us all about the quality of life. Per right wing dumbasses Teri Schiavo should still be "alive" causing pain and suffering to her family, let alone the financial burden.

[ScottLand]

7. You're so right.

Everyone should be prepared to give their sources when they discuss this. Like the way they keep referencing the Lewin Group without mentioning that they're owned by UnitedHealth. Would there be anyone with balls enough to say, "OK, you caught me, I pulled that one out of my ass"?

[aquart]

2. What a surprise.

[mod mom]

3. I believe it's the crazy right to lifers who are the front people disrupting these THs.

they've been fed this BS about Obama wanting to ..." and they're all riled up hoping for some kook to fulfill their hate filled dreams.

[Warpy]

5. Holy shit, a Republican is right about something

More physicians should be counseling their patients of all ages on advance directives, telling the medical establishment just how determined you are to live as a veg on a vent...or not.

Palin's lies about the subject make me absolutely furious.

[Hello_Kitty]

6. Great find! Bookmarking in case I have to debunk an idiot. eom

[ScottLand]

8. And the bad thing is this is not a bad idea

in its context, even though it came from a Republican. But the same party is using it as a creation of the administration. I'm sure this is nothing new, there's probably a page in the Republican playbook that says something like "If one of our programs becomes unpopular, blame it on the Dems". Standard fare.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Repubs are sneaky aren't they?

[mitchtv]

10. I believe it should read "anti choice" Republican

pro life is a lie

[LeftishBrit]

11. Yes. Anti-universal health care is not pro-life.

[Swede Atlanta]

12. The Rethuglicans are desparate.......

They will latch onto anything to get the public's attention....the more gruesome and macabre the better. They don't deal in fact...only in what works to get their agenda moving.

This whole "death panel" and "killing seniors" is a bunch of mularkey and we all know it. The whole idea is to ensure that people have, paid by their health care provider, consultation on end-of-life decisions whether made at 20 - 50 - or 90 years of age. This is a compassionate and responsible policy. This has nothing to do with rationing health care but those on the right have seized on a lie and as we know....."Saddam is in bed with Al Qaeda" told often enough bore fruit.

[Wednesdays]

13. K&R

:kick:

[never cry wolf]

14. This has been known all along

It is actually a good amendment by a puke, the way it has been twisted is disgusting.