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Death Panel

December 22nd, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Republicans are nothing if not united in their opposition to anything the Democrats try. In the case of health care reform, their stance from the beginning has been to kill it at all costs. It’s an outrage that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to accomplish anything when the minority party is unanimously [...]

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Death Panel

August 17th, 2009 | 15 Comments

The reports that the health care reform plans moving through Congress contained a so-called “death panel,” which would have encouraged or allowed euthanasia, are complete falsehoods. Unfortunately, although the rumors deserve a swift death, there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism in the current health care debate to kill them. What was contained in the [...]

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