In a Fox and Friends segment this morning, a Fox News legal analyst asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) whether the House health care bill has any changes “with regard to the death panel.”
Cornyn responded that it’s “certainly something we’ll be focusing on.”
The analyst, Peter Johnson Jr., began the interview by saying the House bill includes the end-of-life provisions that inspired Sarah Palin and others to predict bureaucratic “death panels.”
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He then asked Cornyn, “With regard to the death panel, has anything changed?”
(Check out TPM’s “Evolution Of The Death Panel Meme” photo feature.)
When Cornyn discussed the length of the bill, but not death panels, Johnson pressed him.
“So with regard to the death panel, nothing much has changed?” he asked.
“Well we haven’t been able to read the bill in its entirety, because it’s 2,000 pages long. That’s certainly something we’ll be focusing on,” Cornyn responded. “The concern, of course, is with trying to contain costs when the government runs health care, it invariably rations health care. And we don’t want the government intervening in the kinds of decisions that ought to be made by families.”
The Democratic National Committee has already blasted an email attacking Cornyn for the segment.
