Sarah Palin on “The Current Health Care Debate”:
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
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Who was that masked woman?
Well said, madam. Let the Sarahnoia begin.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
You know when she was citing influential voices in the large piece, JED – I half expected your name to come up. “Death panel,” “Death Care”: great terrorist minds think alike.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Central American Death Squad
that was always one of my favorites for programs being run out of the White House basement.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
The facts are that in a single payer system which ultimately this would become care is rationed. In Canada the wait became so great that their Supreme Court authorized private care (for those who can afford it). The UK has the same plan. There are too numerous reports on the poor services provided by these systems for me to cite many.
As far as cost, I will remind you that the Massachusetts has an insurance option which has a requirement to pay according to your ability (not in the Democrat plan). It is under funded this year.
There is a section that deals with end of life issues. It is not difficult for an intelligent person to realize that this can quickly become a discussion of other “end of life” issues besides a “do not resuscitate”. You should also recall President Obama, in an interview, I am paraphrasing but he said that we need to consider that in some cases we should address the pain of a patient and not try to extend their life.
In Oregon the state heath care system refused a cancer drug for a person because it would “only extend her life”. They sent her information on assisted suicide.
Using terms like “not finding a Death Panel” are simply strawmen to belittle those who disagree with the Democrats. You should be ashamed. Where is the “Change”; stopping the abusive Partisan politics.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
@leghou@yahoo.com – Why don’t you give us a little more information about the Oregon woman refused a cancer drug?
The claim you’re making sounds interesting but wispy.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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