Does It Matter What The President Says Today? (Krugman vs. Sowell)

Does it matter what the President *says* at this point?

Liberal point of view:

YES

or

Conservative point of view:

NO

What do YOU think?

TTFN,
SYD

Best of the PUMAsphere This Week: Death Panel Discussion

Thanks to the following PUMAs for keeping me up to date on the "Health Care Bill:"

Woman State quoting Taranto at the WSJ: "If She's Dim and He's Brilliant, How Did He Lose?"

PUMA for Life linking to Tammy Bruce: "If Some Chick in an Igloo Didn't Have a Laptop..."

HILLBUZZ linking to C4P: "Don't Give The Leftists Ammunition."

Free Me Now linking to the Washington Times: "Palin Target Renounces Care Rationing."

Ok. Let me come clean on this. I am all for end of life counseling!!! Every five years is not too often. BUT.... and this is BIG... end of life counseling should not be linked in any way with cost containment considerations. Therefore, it cannot and should not *ever* become a service offered by Medicare, or Medicaid, or for-profit Insurance Companies.

To link "End of Life Care" with cost containment, in that way, is beyond the pale of ethical health care practice. It's a conflict of interest with unimaginable consequences. For both Physicians and their patients.

My dear Liberal leaning friends, I am sorry... but the mere presence of a provision that would allow Medicare to pay for "end of life counseling," and to dictate how often it should be offered, *is* a red flag. It should signal, to any thinking non-partisan, a serious potential for other weaknesses in the Health Care Bill that is currently being *rushed* through Congress.

Think about it.

SYD

Blue Dawgs Storm Out in Anger: "We Have Been Lied To!"

As reported at "The Hill."

"If the two sides cannot reach an agreement, the only hope for passage of the bill in the House will be to go straight to the floor, an option leaders shied away from endorsing but said was an option.

But the Blue Dogs issued dire warnings to leaders contemplating that approach.

"Waxman simply does not have votes in committee and process should not be bypassed to bring the bill straight to floor,” Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), the lead Blue Dog negotiator, said on Friday. “We are trying to save this bill and trying to save this party.”

Melancon said there would be 40-45 “solid no” votes from the 52-strong Blue Dogs, among other problems throughout the caucus. And Melancon said there are more Democrats who will vote against the bill."

Trying to "save this party?"

Whoa. Things must be worse than we are allowed to know...