The proposed health-rationing bill from the House of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as "retarded"--a term advocates feel is discriminatory and offensive.
The bill refers to: "A hospital or a nursing facility or intermediate-care facility for the mentally retarded . . ."
The phrase is a rehash of the controversy with advocate groups for the developmentally disabled, who were angered when Obama referred to his poor bowling skills on "The Tonight Show" as "like the Special Olympics."
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