Is this excerpt of a NY Times interview the source of speculation of "Death Panel" in Obamacare by people...?

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Is this excerpt of a NY Times interview the source of speculation of "Death Panel" in Obamacare by people like Sarah Palin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazi…

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THE PRESIDENT: ....
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Now, I actually think that the tougher issue around medical care — it’s a related one — is what you do around things like end-of-life care —
DAVID LEONHARDT@NYTIMES
Yes, where it’s $20,000 for an extra week of life.

THE PRESIDENT: Exactly. And I just recently went through this. I mean, I’ve told this story, maybe not publicly, but when my grandmother got very ill during the campaign, she got cancer; it was determined to be terminal. And about two or three weeks after her diagnosis she fell, broke her hip. It was determined that she might have had a mild stroke, which is what had precipitated the fall.

So now she’s in the hospital, and the doctor says, Look, you’ve got about — maybe you have three months, maybe you have six months, maybe you have nine months to live. Because of the weakness of your heart, if you have an operation on your hip there are certain risks that — you know, your heart can’t take it. On the other hand, if you just sit there with your hip like this, you’re just going to waste away and your quality of life will be terrible.

And she elected to get the hip replacement and was fine for about two weeks after the hip replacement, and then suddenly just — you know, things fell apart.

I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost. I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother. Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill is a sustainable model, is a very difficult question. If somebody told me that my grandmother couldn’t have a hip replacement and she had to lie there in misery in the waning days of her life — that would be pretty upsetting.

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DAVID LEONHARDT@NYTIMES
And it’s going to be hard for people who don’t have the option of paying for it.

THE PRESIDENT: So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right?

I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.

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DAVID LEONHARDT@NYTIMES
So how do you — how do we deal with it?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It’s not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. And that’s part of what I suspect you’ll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now.
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Additional to this is comments made by advisor Ezekiel Emanuel regarding a change to the doctor oath, and a book co-authored by Science Czar John Holdren in the mid-70s that speculated on government options for limiting the population demand on resources such as sterilizing the water supply and forcing abortions.

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I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.

Answer 1

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No... the source was Palin's lips which, after letting loose a "moo", then muttered something about "death panels" before going back to their natural sideways chewing motion.

Answer 2

I doubt a 4 month old piece is the source.

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

They actually removed the related part of the health care bill due to all the confusion. All it was was an optional end of life consultation for seniors, which is already offered by most insurance companies, but this somehow got stretched into "Obama's Gestapo is trying to murder your grandparents."

Answer 5

Will you idiots please stop trying to scare people with your lies, distortions and BS. Seriously, if you really want to win an election, this tactic isn't going to do it for you....in fact, it will make things worse...mark my words.

Answer 6

one of the problems in america is that any idiot can make up something, pump it out to the internet and the jihad media, and within a week, half of the country accepts it as fact.

Answer 7

No I got my information about it by reading the bill that unclearly states no health care for old folks.
I am use to legalese Bs.

Answer 8

probably not. What they are citing without further reference to this interview is a page in the house bill that allows doctors to be paid if I ask for information about advance directives so I don't become the next Terry Schaivo.

Somehow, those of us in Oregon that are allowed Dr assisted suicide aka Death with Dignity are being euthanized ( over 50% who actually receive the drugs do not use them). And this is an attempt to equate a request for information into the same thing.

When will people here wake up and face the reality that, barring The Rapture, we will all die? having faced this reality, why will doctors refuse to honor my advance directive and keep me alive for another week of excruciating pain at the cost of $180,000?