http://www.ktracy.com/2009/end-of-life-counseling-worms-its-way-into-bill/ and his most excellent contributors Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:23:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ktracy.com/2009/end-of-life-counseling-worms-its-way-into-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-682 briand Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:51:47 +0000 http://www.ktracy.com/?p=211#comment-682 I agree Travis, making up a lie about "death panels" may rile up the base but it does not sell to those who look for truth. The problem with the right is that there are so many cranks hawking books and radio and TV shows they have no idea what good policy is or how to persuade people who are not on thier side since they preach to the choir. Whenever I ask people how informing people about living wills is the same as a "death panel" they look at me dumbfounded. I agree Travis, making up a lie about “death panels” may rile up the base but it does not sell to those who look for truth. The problem with the right is that there are so many cranks hawking books and radio and TV shows they have no idea what good policy is or how to persuade people who are not on thier side since they preach to the choir. Whenever I ask people how informing people about living wills is the same as a “death panel” they look at me dumbfounded.

]]> http://www.ktracy.com/2009/end-of-life-counseling-worms-its-way-into-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-680 LD Jackson Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:26:02 +0000 http://www.ktracy.com/?p=211#comment-680 Good post, Travis. When the issue of health care reform first started surfacing and the issue of the "death panels" was raised, I downloaded and read every line of the pages they were using to say "death panels" were included in the legislation. It was clear that it was not true and I even went so far as to write about it on my own blog. It sounded like I was defending the plan, but I wasn't. I feel as you do, we need to pick our battles on this and raise our voices over something that is actually in the plan, not something that sounds as bad as "death panels", yet is non-existent. Thanks for pointing this out. Good post, Travis. When the issue of health care reform first started surfacing and the issue of the “death panels” was raised, I downloaded and read every line of the pages they were using to say “death panels” were included in the legislation. It was clear that it was not true and I even went so far as to write about it on my own blog. It sounded like I was defending the plan, but I wasn’t. I feel as you do, we need to pick our battles on this and raise our voices over something that is actually in the plan, not something that sounds as bad as “death panels”, yet is non-existent. Thanks for pointing this out.

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