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		<title>Committee dumps &#8216;death panel&#8217; provision</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/15/committee-dumps-death-panel-22007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times: The decision was an apparent acknowledgement by Democrats that the proposal had become a lightning rod for critics of the proposed overhaul of the health care system. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had charged that the President wanted to set up &#8220;death panels&#8221; that would deny health care services to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: GOP, don&#8217;t use people with disabilities as &#8216;poster children&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Huffington Post, Lennard Davis says Republican concerns about &#8220;death panels&#8221; amount to &#8220;misinformation and downright lies&#8221; that use people with disabilities as &#8220;poster children&#8221; in an attempt to sink the administration&#8217;s health care proposal. An excerpt: This rhetorical concern for the disabled is fascinating coming from the right, which has routinely worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Disability &#8216;not a death sentence&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/14/commentary-death-sentence-21945/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Hershey, writing in U.S. News &#38; World Report, says the current debate over &#8220;end-of-life care&#8221; neglects to acknowledge the rich, vibrant lives lived by people with disabilities. She worries that health care rationing plans rely on discriminatory and erroneous views that ignore the experiences and value of people with disabilities. An excerpt: Tactless acquaintances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s &#8216;death panel&#8217; remark draws fire</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/10/palin-death-panel-21617/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/10/palin-death-panel-21617/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care conversation stalls on dispute over euthanasia Timothy Egan writes in the New York Times Outposts Blog that Sarah Palin&#8217;s criticism of the health plan proposal is &#8220;poison&#8221; that feeds a &#8220;lunatic fringe who channel in the flotsam of delusion, half-facts and conspiracy theories.&#8221; An excerpt: For a democracy, which depends on an informed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Death care&#8217; provision sparks fear among seniors</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/01/healthcare-provision-21150/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post: A campaign on conservative talk radio, fueled by President Obama&#8217;s calls to control exorbitant medical bills, has sparked fear among senior citizens that the health-care bill moving through Congress will lead to end-of-life &#8220;rationing&#8221; and even &#8220;euthanasia.&#8221; The controversy stems from a proposal to pay physicians who counsel elderly or terminally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate roiling over end-of-life benefit in health care proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/31/end-of-life-debate-roiling-21106/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/31/end-of-life-debate-roiling-21106/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Reisner, writing in Business Week, says an obscure end-of-life provision in the administration&#8217;s health care proposal is stoking passions in the &#8220;conservative blogosphere,&#8221; with claims that it is a step toward government-mandated euthanasia. During an AARP-sponsored town hall meeting earlier this week, a woman told the President: &#8220;I have been told there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare bill termed &#8216;government-encouraged euthanasia&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/29/obamacare-euthanasia-20916/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/29/obamacare-euthanasia-20916/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Carrie Budoff Brown in Politico: Legislators and political commentators are sparring over a provision tucked deep inside the House health care reform bill that would provide Medicare coverage for an end-of-life consultation once every five years, and more frequently for a life-threatening illness. House Minority Leader John Boehner and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8216;GovernmentCare&#8217;s Assault on Seniors&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/23/governmentcare%e2%80%99s-20555/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/23/governmentcare%e2%80%99s-20555/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[assisted suicide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Betsy McCaughey says Congress is rushing to approve legislation that will &#8220;reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years.&#8221; At the core of McCaughey&#8217;s concern is comparative effectiveness research, which can be used to limit care based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man who attempted mercy killing avoids jail</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/01/27/mercy-killing-sentence-8563/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/01/27/mercy-killing-sentence-8563/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alzheimer's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara Independent: An 85-year-old California man who attempted to kill his ailing wife and himself last September has avoided jail, receiving a sentence of time served plus three years probation and 100 hours of community service. His wife had Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. The pair had been married since 1944. James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist calls for &#8216;clear policy on euthanasia&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/21/columnist-euthanasia-3552/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/21/columnist-euthanasia-3552/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[euthanasia/mercy killing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the [UK] Times about the case of Dan James, Libby Purves says the public should offer assistance to those who wish to die rather than face living with a severe disability. An excerpt: The humane creed of disability rights, with its vocabulary of challenges and being &#8220;differently abled&#8221;, may have a less helpful [...]]]></description>
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