Sarah Palin Setting Finance Committee Policy?

[masuki bance]

From the Daily Kos-

Sarah Palin Setting Finance Committee Policy?
Thu Aug 13, 2009

Isn't this special?

The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday.

The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as "death panels" to encourage euthanasia.

"On the Finance Committee, we are working very hard to avoid unintended consequences by methodically working through the complexities of all of these issues and policy options," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement. "We dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly."

So Max Baucus has ceded policy making not only over to Chuck Grassley, but to Sarah Palin, because only in their minds was the end-of-life consulations (note, Hill reporter, NOT end-of-life care, but end of life counselling)controversial. Or euthenasia.

Where's the White House on that one?


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/13/766315/-Sarah-Palin-Setting-Finance-Committee-Policy

Palin and Grassley sure seem to be rolling Baucus on this.



*edit to fix link

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Is Grassley the only source on this?

If this is one of the things that ultimately gets cut from the final bill, then I suppose I could live with it. OTOH I might understand people's concerns if they were better founded than what they seem to be in this case. Also, it's not like we take this one thing out and they will be satisfied. They will definitely start up again over some other obscure provision buried somewhere. If this is true, it would be too bad that we can't help people make decisions about the quality of care they receive if incapacitated just because of the neverending Palin/birther/deather/teabagger/flat earther "freakshow".
:eyes:

[safeinOhio]

2. Dropping any provision needs a pro quid quo

replace with a more progressive one to give them a choice they will not like to make.

[niceypoo]

3. Why do the Republicans still control congress?

Why oh why??

[Ikonoklast]

4. Load of crap.

They're going to change the wording on compensation for doctors that consult patients on health issues, and it will definitely include end-of-life care.

But keep up the good work. They must be proud of you.

[masuki bance]

5. Why are they changing the wording?

edit to add-

Never mind, I found the reason.

"...Republican Sen. Charles E. Grassley said Thursday that the Senate Finance Committee dropped consideration of end-of-life provisions similar to those that have prompted claims by opponents that the House health overhaul bill authorizes so-called “death panels.”

Grassley, one of the six bipartisan negotiators who have been engaged in talks for weeks on the content of the Finance bill, said in a statement the panel has been trying to avoid “unintended consequences” by working methodically through the consequences of policy options.

“We dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly,” Grassley said in a statement. “Maybe others can defend a bill like the Pelosi bill that leaves major issues open to interpretation but I can’t.”..."

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003191612