Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111119:

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developed a successful end-of-life best practice that includes community-wide advanced care planning, where 90% of patients have advanced directives. in other words, living wills. the gundersen approach empowers patients and families to control and direct their care. if gundersen's approach was used to care for the approximately 4.5 million medicare beneficiaries who die every year, medicare could save $33 billion a year." david, the guy's caught. here was newt gingrich a few days after that piece appeared, he was asked about the so-called death panels on abc's "this week." let's watch. >> we know people who have said routinely well, you're going to have to make decisions. you'll have to decide. communal standards, historically, is a very dangerous concept. you're asking us to trust turning power over to the government, when there clearly are people in america who believe in establishing euthanasia, including selective standards. >> well, there you go. he's advocating end-of-life

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