Johhnny Isakson, Republican Sen from Georgia was the sponsor of the provision Boehner calls

[JohnWxy]

Government encouraged euthanasia.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/05/politics/main5215880.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Much of the screw-ball hysteria seen at town-hall meetings on Health care reform has been about the Government encouraging euthanasia, or a s Sarah Plin put's it Obama's "death panels". This hysterical nonsense was not just fomented by nut-job GOP cable propagandists but Corporate Lobbyist Party members of Congress!

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) put out a statement on July 23 that suggested as much (that the HEalth care reform bill would pressure people to euthanize themselves).

"This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia if enacted into law."

THE provision the Corporate Lobbyist party members have been wildly distorting was actually sponsored by Johnny Isakson, Republican senator from GEorgia.

The idea was to cover counseling with a patients doctor which is not covered now by medicare.

[noiretextatique]

1. yes...a great victory for the party of no

:puke:

In fact, section 1233 of the House bill would allow Medicare for the first time to cover patient-doctor consultations about end-of-life planning, including discussions about drawing up a living will or planning hospice treatment. Patients would, of course, seek out such advice on their own -- they would not be required to. The provision would limit Medicare coverage to one consultation every five years.

[KatyaR]

2. Funny, every time I heard the name Johnny Isakson I think of

'John Iselin' from the original "Manchurian Candidate." He was puppet scum, too.

[zbdent]

3. I think it might shut up an uninformed person who spouts the "Death Panel" point

if you tell them that the "end of life" provisions are actually set up to avoid a Terri Schiavo-esque brouhaha they'd face ... you would be able to have it discussed and put in place whether or not you want to spend the rest of your life in a vegetative, brain-dead state if your family thinks there's the slimmest of hopes that you'd come out of it ...

[Doctor_J]

5. You think any facts are going to shut up that psycho who was

having a stroke at Arlen's meeting?

No amount of fact or logic can cut through the Big Media Lie

[zbdent]

7. Psychos, who believe that Obama's not a citizen? No. People who are uninformed

but just spout the talking points of what they've heard? Maybe ...

[JohnWxy]

8. I just believe we HAVE TO try. (I said this wasn't going to be easy, that it would be a war)

In fighting "the good fight" you keep trying, you keep on going even when all hope seems lost (seriously, you have to keep fighting right to the end i.e.. emailing, going to town hall meetings, telling Senators and Representatives No Public Option is NOT AN OPTION.)

[Doctor_J]

4. And an ultra-right-wing Repuke at that

but don't tell Big Media.

[VPStoltz]

6. And ain't it ironic that The Shrub called congress back into session to deal with Terry Shiavo -

but allowing your doctor to talk to you about the same issues that prompted that embarrassment is what they are all pissed off at?