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They dropped it, because they go caught with their hand in the cookie jar, not because the provision would be misinterpreted...LOL!!
There's a bunch more crap in the bill that's going to have to go, before the heat will die down.
There's a bunch more crap in the bill that's going to have to go, before the heat will die down.
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."
TheHill.com - Finance Committee to drop end-of-life provision