Not just death panels! Rep. John Mica (R-FL) says there will be, gasp!, a whole “cottage industry” of “death counselors.”
Transcending the issue of privately insured or publicly insured care, Hearst has put together a broad-ranging series, with its own site, about medical mistakes that result in death.
AP: Whatever else happens on health care, it may be a good reason to phase out Social Security.
Micheal Steele: Palin was right about “death panels.”
First Palin, then Steele, now an actual U.S. senator is passing on the “pull the plug on grandma” canard. Charles Grassley, no less than the ranking member on a key health care reform committee, did it at a town hall meeting in Iowa today.
A new USAToday/Gallup poll appears to show that the tea bag protests are driving voters to be more hostile to reform rather than less. This seems to be particularly so among Independents.
From Susan Page: “n a survey of 1,000 adults taken Tuesday, 34% say the sometimes heated protests at sessions held by members of Congress have made them more sympathetic to the protesters’ views; 21% say they are less sympathetic.”
We’re looking to find the internals to get a closer read on just how the questions were asked.
Late Update: Gallup itself has up the internals of the poll. And the details paint a more mixed picture than the USAToday lede. That said, they do not seem to show any of the backlash against the craziness that many reformers are hoping for. And at a minimum they seem to be hardening opposition among Republicans and right-leaning independents.
From across the country, reformers and protestors face off.
An American living in France, who is currently fighting breast cancer, talks ‘death panels’ and the surreal experience of watching our health care debate from across the Atlantic.