Sarah Palin's notes on her FaceBook page raised so much public awareness that the Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill.<\/p>\n
The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after being derided as "death panels" to encourage euthanasia by conservatives.<\/p>\n
"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<\/a> from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly."<\/p>\n Grassley also said, ""The bill passed by the House committees is so poorly cobbled together that it will have all kinds of unintended consequences, <\/span>including making taxpayers fund health care subsidies for illegal immigrants<\/span>." <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I hope that Chuck Grassley and the other members of the Finance Committee continue their good work and remove any possibility<\/span> of taxpayer funded health care subsidies for illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n H\/T to Michael O'Brien at The Hill's Blog Briefing Room<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sarah Palin's notes on her FaceBook page raised so much public awareness that the Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill. The committee, which has worked on putting together … Continue reading