1) hospice services; 2) palliative care; 3) counseling on end-of-life issues. Three ideal benefits for older Americans and others in need of medical help. Any national health care reform ought to include these features at least.

To have such features portrayed as a neo-Nazi plot amounts to a national disgrace. And to have senators say that number 3 will be withdrawn almost rates as a national tragedy.

How can our nation give way to vested political and commercial interests of this sleazy sort?