Tom Harkin
Unlike the president, Senate HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, never wavered on his defense of end-of-life counseling and his critique of Republicans for making the issue controversial and political. “I think the Obama administration should not have dropped that reference,” Harkin said in January, according to the Iowa Independent. “I think that we need that type of counseling in Medicare when you go in for an annual check-up. It’s not death panels. It’s just basically letting people know what their rights are and giving them the option.”
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