Obama at Health Care Town Hall: “I’m not in favor of death”
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on August 12th, 2009 in Health Care Policy, In The News, Linked Articles.
“I’m not in favor of death,” said President Obama during New Hampshire’s Health Care Town Hall Meeting. That he had to say it speaks volumes about the misunderstandings and misconceptions of the hotly debated health care reform bills currently working their way through Congress.
The false rumor that the House of Representatives voted for death panels that will pull the plug on the elderly because it’s too expensive to let them live, or variations around that theme, arose out of a provision in one of the House bills that allows Medicare to reimburse seniors for consultations for end-of-life care. There is nothing in the bill that speaks to forcing such consultations, or forcing anyone to choose death. There are no death panels, no death squads, no Nazi death marches involved. No, none of the bills favors enforced death.
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