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McCain takes up 'death panel' charge on floor
The Hill ^

Posted on 11/21/2009 4:56:25 PM PST by Sub-Driver

McCain takes up 'death panel' charge on floor By J. Taylor Rushing - 11/21/09 06:24 PM ET

Former GOP presidential nominee John McCain (Ariz.) used Saturday's Senate floor debate on healthcare reform to repeat the controversial "death panel charge" that his running mate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has been heavily criticized for.

In a scripted exchange with Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), McCain assailed a recent recommendation by a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services panel that women receive regular mammograms once they reach 50 years of age, instead of the traditional 40. McCain used that to revive a criticism of the Democratic-written healthcare bill that Palin raised over the summer, that advisory boards could create polices that would make them become "death panels."

"Isn't that the kind of advisory board that this legislation could put into law, that those kinds of mandates could come down which could literally jeopardize the health and lives of Americans?" McCain asked Barrasso.

Barrasso's wife is a breast cancer survivor, a fact he referenced.

"This type of legislation would have cost my wife her life," Barrasso said. "She is a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed by a routine screening mammogram. And she was in her 40s when that mammogram was performed... It was a screening mammogram that saved her life."

A grinning McCain then asked, "You would not describe that as a death panel?"

Barrasso replied, "Some people might."


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1 posted on 11/21/2009 4:56:25 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Wait a minute. McCain is actually acting like a Republican?


2 posted on 11/21/2009 4:58:12 PM PST by mc6809e
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To: Sub-Driver
Death panel is bad enough — but the MANDATORY participation is what should make this government takeover DOA
3 posted on 11/21/2009 5:01:30 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: mc6809e

WOW, so not only is he defending Sarah Palin, but he is also saying that there are indeed death panels. Either he finally grew a sack or he is afraid that he will lose in 2010


4 posted on 11/21/2009 5:02:00 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sub-Driver

care to explain


5 posted on 11/21/2009 5:02:39 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Sub-Driver
Unstoppable...Except through the sound of the clicking of hundreds of knitting needles and the thunk of the guillotine...
6 posted on 11/21/2009 5:04:01 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

amazing now imagine if the GOP was always like this.

There is still a long way to got but a word of advoe for our lefty trolls.

I grew up in England and have family over there and I know what Govt health care is all about.

IT DOES NOT WORK.
I could give you a list of horrible cases but of course you will still not believe it.

Lets put it this way.

That checking of the boobs then get used to Govt telling you that you will not be covered, you watch that cancer rate go up and you watch your taxes go right up.
Yes lefty troll Govt health care in the UK is not free it costs a lot of money and you WILL FIND OUT of this passes


7 posted on 11/21/2009 5:06:24 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: SuperLuminal

It can still be stopped—at the next cloture vote. Reid doesnt yet have the votes to pass the bill.


8 posted on 11/21/2009 5:08:26 PM PST by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: Sub-Driver
"Isn't that the kind of advisory board that this legislation could put into law, that those kinds of mandates could come down which could literally jeopardize the health and lives of Americans?" McCain asked Barrasso.

Ant-truth, anti-freedom, anti-constitutional, anti-life SCUM SUCKING SOCIALIST CRIMINALS ALWAYS JEOPARDIZE THE HEALTH AND LIVES OF Americans.

Witness history, McSCRIPTED McRINO. Sheesh, to think I voted for you.

9 posted on 11/21/2009 5:10:23 PM PST by PGalt
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Death panels are the smoking gun of the 'rat scheme.

Death panels used to exist at dialysis centers, when dialysis machines were too scarce to meet the demand. Well into the sixties, people died from ESRD because there just wasn't enough dialysis time to go around.

Death panels exist now, at any given hospital transplant program, due to naturally occurring shortages of donated organs. People die today because there aren't enough organs to go around.

Under the gubbermint rationing plans, people will die due to contrived shortages of financial allocations.

They will pretend that failure to fund needed care is unavoidable, the same as the naturally occurring shortage of resources such as dialysis machines or donated livers. But they will be lying.

10 posted on 11/21/2009 5:10:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Sub-Driver

Why now John? You are late to the party.


11 posted on 11/21/2009 5:11:01 PM PST by bmwcyle (When do they collect and jail the homeless when they don't buy their health care?)
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RINO's are waking up! This is great. Welcome to the club McCain.

Will O Bow Mao try to raise another half million to counter McCain's Death Camp claims?

12 posted on 11/21/2009 5:12:13 PM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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To: manc

Yeh...pap and prostate exams every TWO years...


13 posted on 11/21/2009 5:13:11 PM PST by spokeshave (Obama can't unjump the shark "Obama Wa Nobel-sho Ni Ataeshinai" ("Obama Unworthy of Nobel Prize"))
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To: mc6809e

He must be getting nervous about those close polling numbers back home.


14 posted on 11/21/2009 5:30:18 PM PST by libbylu ( Palin begins from Wasilla not only a campaign, an Iditarod of a crusade ....YEAH!)
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To: mc6809e

Too late “Specter” McCain. As usual.


15 posted on 11/21/2009 5:37:15 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: mc6809e
McCain is actually acting like a Republican?

About 3 percent of the time he has a moment of clarity.

16 posted on 11/21/2009 5:38:27 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: manc
I grew up in England and have family over there and I know what Govt health care is all about.

IT DOES NOT WORK. I could give you a list of horrible cases but of course you will still not believe it.


A lot of unbelievable stuff happens in the U.K.--things that would shock your average Brit forty or fifty years ago. England has become a tidy little surveillance state, not unlike the prognostications and warnings of her many great writers and social prophets. What's disheartening is that no one really seems to care any more. It's an accepted matter of fact, and after all, things could be worse.

Americans still have some fight left in them.
17 posted on 11/21/2009 5:40:33 PM PST by Das Outsider ("It's a California 'thang.'" -- Michael Savage)
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To: Das Outsider

agreed
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today it is the norm but I will not stand by while this great country go the same way as my old country


18 posted on 11/21/2009 5:51:23 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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****Wait a minute. McCain is actually acting like a Republican?****

McCain has acted alot more like a republican lately. Some might suggest its because he's up for re-election in 2010. Or might I suggest that Sarah had an effect on him.

19 posted on 11/21/2009 5:51:34 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule (Where did Dagmar go?)
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To: manc
"IT DOES NOT WORK."

All those Damnocrats know it doesn't work. This is all about destroying America.

20 posted on 11/21/2009 5:57:07 PM PST by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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