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Forget 'Death Panels' -- Poll Says Most Want Better Life, Not Longer
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A large majority of Americans say the quality of life, not the length, is more important when their days are numbered. But more than half also say the health care system should spare no expense to extend life. The seemingly contradictory views were among those revealed in a new poll conducted by the National Journal and the Regence Foundation that probed beliefs about that most uncomfortable and inevitable subject: death, and what should be done as it approaches. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images More than 70 percent of Americans believe enhancing the quality of life, not ...
'Death Panels' and a Real Civilogue: Readers Discuss End-of-Life Planning
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyAn Obama administration official who refused to be quoted by name gave this explanation last week for axing a new Medicare provision paying for voluntary annual end-of-life planning consultations between doctors and patients and their families: "We realize that this should have been included in the proposed rule, so more people could have commented on it specifically," the official bafflegabbed to the New York Times. Let's assume that the previous year of politically charged argument about end-of-life planning wasn't enough and this wasn't simply a political cave-in to the "death panel" ...
Reference to End-of-Life Planning Dropped in New Medicare Rule
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe Obama administration reversed course and dropped a specific reference to end-of-life planning in a new Medicare rule explaining what is covered in annual check-ups. The rule change, removing references to "advance care planning," does not affect a Medicare recipient's "ability to have those voluntary conversations with their doctors" about end-of-life decisions, an administration official told the New York Times. Reporter Robert Pear said it was clear "political concerns" accounted for the revision as well as procedural reasons, since renewed debate over what critics derided as "death ...
Barbara Boxer's 'Death Panel' Response: Why Would I Want to Kill Granny?
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) got some moral support and a major boost for her campaign coffers when President Obama headlined two fundraisers in Los Angeles Monday night to support her reelection bid. She also used the occasion to make the case for sending her back to the Senate. "I'm in a very, very tough race. . . . These are very, very tough times," she said. "You understand that. Leaders are tested in tough times. And that is appropriate. At the end of the day people want someone who is in their corner." ...
Palin: I'm Not the Biggest Liar of the Year
By David Corn - Politics DailyThere's an old story that occasionally makes the rounds in Washington. In the 1970s, a magazine (now long defunct) named New Times reported that Sen. William Scott, a Virginia Republican, had been ranked the "dumbest" senator in a survey conducted by a public interest group. Subsequently, Scott held a press conference to deny the charge -- thereby proving he was pretty darn dumb. After all, he only called more attention to the accusation. Sarah Palin has taken a Scott-like position. Earlier this month, PolitiFact.com, a project of the St. Petersburg Times, awarded Palin the not-so-coveted ...
Essay: My Way of Death
By Robert W. Stock - AOL NewsI don't like to talk about dying any more than the next guy, but sometimes it only makes sense. One of those times is right now – if you haven't signed any advanced directives. Those are the forms that spell out what kind of care you want to receive when you're dying. The other time it pays, literally, to talk about death is when you're actually in the process. According to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, advanced cancer patients who had end-of-life conversations with doctors had 35 percent lower medical costs in their final week than other patients. Those with higher ...
Most Americans Dismiss Scare Tactics in the Health Care Reform Debate
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA majority of Americans believe many of the claims about health care legislation are distortions or "scare tactics," according to a new Bloomberg poll. ...
Palin Resurrects 'Death Panels' -- The Latest in Obama-Bashing
By David Corn - Politics DailySarah Palin is at it again. She's insisting that the health care bill under construction in Congress will cause the creation of "death panels." She was invited to testify before the New York Senate's Aging Committee on health care reform and instead sent the committee a letter that she also posted on her Facebook page. In that letter, she says:A great deal of attention was given to my use of the phrase "death panel" in discussing such rationing. Despite repeated attempts by many in the media to dismiss this phrase as a "myth," its accuracy has been vindicated. But expert after expert has ...
Patients 'Sentenced to Death' By National Health Service, British Doctors Say
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn a letter to London's Daily Telegraph, a group of medical experts who care for the terminally ill in the U.K. say that scores of patients are being wrongly categorized as "close to death" and that their demise is being hastened under increasingly controversial care guidelines introduced in 2004. ...
Obama on Death Panels: 'An Extraordinary Lie'
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama accused some health reform critics of "bearing false witness" during a live conference call and webcast Wednesday with tens of thousands of clergy and people of faith. Using strong language, Obama told the religious leaders that some claims about health reform are "ludicrous." In particular, he said, "This notion that somehow we are setting up death panels" that would decide whether old people get to live or die is "an extraordinary lie." The death panel idea has been advanced by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and dismissed as fiction by, among others, fact-checkers and some ...
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