The Ongoing Conversation re Health Care

Law Professor Ann Althouse, whose blog motto seems to be "two short sentences and a link," has written a much longer post on the idea of a "conversation"

The blog post can be found here.

The quote from the President that kicked off this blog post is:

I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place.

PALIN WARNING:  Professor Althouse points out that Former Governor Sarah Palin's use of the term "Death Panels" changed the direction of the conversation. This use of opposite terms for the same thing is discussed later by Professor Althouse here.  She is talking about dysphemisms—"the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one."♠  Professor Althouse thinks it worked for Former Governor Palin.

Back to the original link, I think it is an interesting commentary by the Law Professor.  Getting married a couple of weeks ago seems to have fired her up.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  From an On Line Dictionary.