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including the option to opt-out of medical treatment that could prolong their lives. defenders of the new rule tried to argue it is nothing more than a continuation of president bush s policies in reality, president bush vetoed that 08 bill included an end of life provision. that policy was passed by a congressional veto override. joining us kevin mad dan, steve mcmahon. steve, i don t often quote the new york times on this program this is where the story originated. new york times reports medicaid will pay for voluntary end of life counseling. is that something you re comfortable with? actually, i am. i was comfortable with it in 2008 when it was going on and when the bill passed. the bill passed with the house of representatives with only 59 members of congress voting it. which means a majority of republicans voted for the bill that allowed this to happen. was now is seen jurors can get
including the option to opt-out of medical treatment that could prolong their lives. defenders of the new rule tried to argue it is nothing more than a continuation of president bush s policies in reality, president bush vetoed that 08 bill included an end of life provision. that policy was passed by a congressional veto override. joining us kevin mad dan, steve mcmahon. steve, i don t often quote the new york times on this program this is where the story originated. new york times reports medicaid will pay for voluntary end of life counseling. is that something you re comfortable with? actually, i am. i was comfortable with it in 2008 when it was going on and when the bill passed. the bill passed with the house of representatives with only 59 members of congress voting it. which means a majority of republicans voted for the bill that allowed this to happen. was now is seen jurors can get
she negotiated a ground-breaking contract with the teachers union that included provisions for performance pay and ending tenure as a job for life provision. that means teachers who were rated as ineffective are immediately terminated. if they re rated minimally effective, they have possible pay raises frozen. if they show no improvement, they also get fired. that s tough love. but with the state of the washington, d.c. public school system, many argue that s exactly the kind of toughness that was needed for real reform. darrel bradford is the director of education for everyone, a group in favor of school choice that was co-founded by newark new jersey mayor cory booker. all right. i want to start the conversation this way. look, a lot of the stuff she did that was considered toughness and good was firing teachers. yeah. is that fair? is that the at the heart of the problem here? i think what we were finding, you know, before chancellor rhee was chancellor, she ran the new teac