<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fe83c7a0-ed8b-4ebb-b13c-b17bf6f9607c/58A07039-2C7F-4B8D-A6FB-237B776E0CB3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/11/gop-senator-end-of-life-counseling-is-not-a-death-panel/" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/11/gop-senator-end-of-life-counseling-is-not-a-death-panel/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.wsj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/11/gop-senator-end-of-life-counseling-is-not-a-death-panel/"><P><IMG align="right" alt="" src="http://s.wsj.net/media/HealthReformLogo_D_2009.jpg" />Sarah Palin <A target="blank" href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/08/09/palin-effects-change-one-tweet-at-a-time/">made headlines</A> when she used the phrase “death panel” in a <A target="blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434">statement</A> on the national health-care debate. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/11/gop-senator-end-of-life-counseling-is-not-a-death-panel/"><P>That was just the latest in what’s become an ongoing <A href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=BE4A649B-18FE-70B2-A8D69613031185EB">series of comments</A> that may spring from a provision in one of the big health bills introduced this year. (<SPAN id="apture_prvw1" class="aptureLink "><SPAN class="aptureLinkIcon"> </SPAN><A href="http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/AAHCA09001xml.pdf" class="aptureLink snap_noshots">Read it for yourself</A></SPAN> on p. 424 of the bill.) </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/11/gop-senator-end-of-life-counseling-is-not-a-death-panel/"><P>But the provision has nothing to do with “death panels” or euthanasia, <A target="blank" href="http://isakson.senate.gov/">Johnny Isakson</A>, a Republican Senator from Georgia, <A target="blank" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/08/is_the_government_going_to_eut.html#more">tells the Washington Post</A>. “How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts,” he said. “You’re putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don’t know how that got so mixed up.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/58A07039-2C7F-4B8D-A6FB-237B776E0CB3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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