On NPR's Talk of the Nation,today, Sekulow said the following:

o End of life care is a major contributor to US health care costs

o One of the prime objectives of the draft Health Care Bill is control of health care costs

o That draft requires physicians to provide formal end of life counselling

o And to report their results to a Government panel

o Therefore it follows that the Government will require that in end of life counselling physcians should urge an early death

This is an attorney talking? Doesn't that same logic mean that the Government will require surgeons to botch operations?A new medical standard:first do Harm. 

He went essentially  unrefuted. The host probed his assertion once and Sekulow repeated that since cost control was a major objective of the bill it must be the case that the Government will pressure physicians to speed the elderly on their way.The other guest , a physician, tried a couple of times to rebutt Sekulow , who asked not to be interrupted and  when the other guest tried again the host instead took questions.

NPR sometimes compliments itself on its "drive way moments"- when the listener stays in the car to hear the conclusion of a segment. For me this was a "drive way moment" as I shouted at the radio :"Ask Sekulow if he means that all doctors will be pressured to kill their patients".

I understand that the hosts have their hands full.Where was TOTN's support team? Why didn't they prompt the obvious question.

Oh, well.