Mark Halperin's Sudden Claim That Obamacare Death Panels Exist Calls Into Question His Reporting [View all]

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From the no shit file:


Appearing yesterday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show”, Mark Halperin—Time Magazine’s senior political analyst and regular guest on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” (except for when he is being suspended from the program for calling the President of the United States a d**k)—pronounced;

“The Affordable Care Act contains provisions for “death panels,” which decide which critically ill patients receive care and which don’t. It’s built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be part of how costs are controlled.”

Really, Mark?

That is quite a pronouncement without so much as bothering to provide thinking Americans with a reference to where they can find this deeply upsetting language in the Affordable Care Act.

I, for one, would have been most appreciative to be provided with such a citation given that I’ve read the entire law seven times and have yet to come across any provision that states how critically ill patients will—or will not—have their fate determined by their government, despite Halperin’s announcement that these death panels are the means in which health care costs are going to be controlled in the future.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/11/26/mark-halperins-sudden-claim-that-obamacare-death-panels-exist-calls-into-question-his-reporting-credibility/