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  This Jon Stewart and Betsy McCaughey interview is an argument over whether or not the proposed house bill H.R. 3200 will result in seniors receiving worse treatment under the new health care system.

    Unfortunately, the interview was cut short due to the time constraint of the TV program.  However, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was kind enough to post the full interview on their website.  Below is the interview in its entirety:

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Part One

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Part Two

 

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  The key issue often used to attack the bill by Pro Republican media is that the bill contains a mandatory "death panel".  Actually, the related section is in the portion of the bill aimed to regular the quality of reporting on  "end of life care and advanced care planning ".

  Since this portion is the gateway to create strife on public opinion of healthcare reform, this interview turned out to be very enlightening to how a misinterpretation of the bill can be used by the media to create public hysteria towards any present or future health care reforms.

  When one chooses not to project any hyperbole and read the bill for what it actually says, it is clear that the Doctors will be rated on how they adhere to the "consulted pre-planning" when patients are no longer able to make these decisions.  For example, when a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, the Doctor will be rated on whether he stays close to the will that the patient made before entering the vegetative state.

  Betsy McCaughey insisted that the measurement of adherence to "end of life and advanced care planning" report will panelize the Doctors if patients change their minds on how they wished to be cared.  When in fact the bill is aimed to rate how closely the Doctor adheres to the living will, not to force still coherent patient stick to plan.

  By confusing this point, certain mass media and those who benefit from the current system, were able to confuse the public and use it as a speaking point to attack not just this bill, but health care reform in general.

  Below is the actual text of H.R. 3200 Page 432.  Full text of the bill can be found here: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text

(b) Expansion of Physician Quality Reporting Initiative for End of Life Care-

 

Page 432

 

(1) Physician’S QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE- Section 1848(k)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-4(k)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:

 

"(3) Physician’S QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE-

 

"(A) IN GENERAL- For purposes of reporting data on quality measures for covered professional services furnished during 2011 and any subsequent year, to the extent that measures are available, the Secretary shall include quality measures on end of life care and advanced care planning that have been adopted or endorsed by a consensus-based organization, if appropriate. Such measures shall measure both the creation of and adherence to orders for life-sustaining treatment.

 

"(B) PROPOSED SET OF MEASURES- The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register proposed quality measures on end of life care and advanced care planning that the Secretary determines are described in subparagraph (A) and would be appropriate for eligible professionals to use to submit data to the Secretary. The Secretary shall provide for a period of public comment on such set of measures before finalizing such proposed measures.".