Sunday, August 23, 2009

Directive 1233 not as benign as they're saying: Charles Krauthammer on health care reform

Charles Krauthammer is a one-man truth panel:
Let’s see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling.

We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I’ve got nothing against her. She’s a remarkable political talent. But there are no “death panels” in the Democratic health-care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate.

We also have to tell the defenders of the notorious Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 that it is not quite as benign as they pretend ...
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2 comments:

Lee said...

On this issue, sorry, Krauthammer is full of beans. The game was given away about the intent of some of this legislation when all that talk about "end of life counseling" was inserted, and then taken out.

TomH said...

Krauthammer is very amnesic. The statists always use the wedge strategy to get their unpalatable goals advanced by the bureaucracy when it is too late to stop them.