Obama’s Health Care Speech a High-Stakes Political Game

Pajamas Media by Rich Baehr | Sep. 8, 2009 (Opinion)

There does not appear to be much common ground within the Democratic Party as the president prepares for an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night in which he hopes to regain the momentum for passing health care reform legislation this year. Full Story »

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by Kelly Garrett - Sep. 8, 2009

While her characterization contained hyperbole, there was enough in the language of the bills and in the public statements of … the administration to suggest that significantly reducing expenditures on end-of-life care was a primary vehicle the Obama team believed could help bend the cost curve.

This is the closest thing I’ve heard to an explanation of the death panel claim.