Political Grapevine: 9/3

" And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine there's been a lot of talk about end of life care during the current health care debate. But across the pond some serious questions are being raised a group of leading British doctors has written to the Daily Telegraph telegraph insisting. That some terminally ill patients are being forced to die prematurely. They call -- a national crisis and patient care. Explain that medical staff under national health service guidance the government run system. Can remove fluids and drugs from patients and put them on continuous sedation until death. One doctor -- of the program quote it is supposed to let people die with dignity but he can become a self fulfilling prophecy. Last week a report by the patients association in the UK estimated up to one million patients had received poor or -- care. Under the government's system. Back here in the US healthcare protests in California ended with a man needing healthcare fast to reattach his finger. Authorities say -- protesters supporting health care reform in the town of Thousand Oaks. Walked over to a group of counter demonstrators. A heated argument and a fish fight ensued during which the original protestor bit off the left pinky finger of -- 65 year old man. Authorities are still looking for that fighter but again he was a proponent of health care reform the pinky -- victim. Was covered by Medicare. And if congressional hearings are your idea of a good time aren't they all a theater in Philadelphia has a night on the town for you. The Wall Street Journal reports the Gonzales cantata is a concert opera about former attorney general Alberto Gonzales is Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Every word song during the forty minute coral. Is taken verbatim from the hearings that punctuated the US attorney dismissal firings back in 2007. The -- writer says she has had a bipartisan response quote Republicans and Democrats come to the show and remark. That it really wasn't about party politics it's about a man who. Made some mistakes and is facing the music literally. No reaction from the former attorney general yet."