violates their privacy protection. number three, i m assuming that congressman pallone, when this was passed, when he was still in the majority, will work with me to protect people et cetera privacy, if it is as i say it is. if if i m right, that you waive your privacy rights if you go through this process, and i ll ask congressman p.m. allone and the other democrats on the committee to work with me to protect people s privacy. this is a solvable problem. they could delete that hidden code, put an explicit privacy protection in it, and i guarantee you every republican on the committee, and i would assume every republican in the house of representatives and united states senate will vote with me to protect people s privacy as we go through obama care. we just go down the same road again of scaring people and making people feel this is not going to work, there s not a death panel issue here. these are just all, you know
going to call the shots, but what they re deciding and what will be the things that will be included in health care coverage. the mri s, doctor visits and et cetera you re allowed and doing it largely on their own. absolutely. neil. i think that what you just said, it illustrates the depth of the government intervention into business and our health care, as we know it and you mentioned the death panel issue. remember, late in the year, it turned out that medicare through regulation, decide today implement and offer end of life planning to people on medicare. this would, by regulation, it was in the federal register, buried in there and something taken out of the health care law, but they pushed it through quietly tried to keep it secret, and then when it came out in the public, the obama administration had to backtrack and say, oh, we re not going to do that now. that s what we re in store for for years, if not decades to
it s crazy. north carolina is where this last one comes from. stay warm, gayle. north carolina not quite as warm as they thought it would be. all right, moving on. well, it was part of the original health care bill, and it stuffed up a stirred up a whole lot of controversy. now there are reports that the president is bringing back end-of-life planning in a new medicare regulation that is going into effect january 1st. already critics are saying this is essentially the whole death panel issue, round two. joining me now to separate the fact from the fiction, dr. mark siegel, a member of our fox news a team and fox news contributor, and dr. kathleen london. a medical practitioner. thanks so much for being here. the deal is they had that part of the health care bill that was going to allow end-of-life planning instructions, and it
it together were passionate in repudiating sarah palin s remarks and i had yeah see this time around as we said, some of them at least seem to be falling for it. they can t be trusted to fight for themselves and fight for what they believe in. how can americans believe in them to fight for working people who need so much help in this all of economy? they really look like bumps and that s the worst thing. and, joan, by the way, on that death panel issue, democrats backtracd and took that portion out of the bill. well, that s another good point. anything that, you know, could be described as a death panel when, in fact, let s not relive that. but that was compassionately making something available to middle class and working class people that rich people already have, which is they consult with a lawyer about how to handle end of life decisions. that s all that it was. but it had to be taken out