The Senate Finance Committee decided to remove the so-called "death panel" provision from its version of Obamacare legislation because the language could be "misinterpreted or implemented incorrectly."
The decision and rational amounts to an admission that fears the language allegedly designed to allow Medicare to pay doctors to counsel patients about planning for end-of-life decisions could morph into "death panels" are justified
According to the Los Angeles Times, a similar provision remains in the Obamacare legislation that was passed by three House committees last month, and could remain in the final bill. Until the death panel provision is removed from all the Democrats' Obamacare proposals, the controversy will continue.
So much for Obama's assertions that complaints about "death panels" are nothing more than misconceptions.
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