A writer for the American Thinker dug this up out of the grave, which is surprising because no hardworking mainstream media investigative journalists were able to dig this up, after the very much alive but constantly pronounced dead (by liberals and their media), Sarah Palin, dared to give rise to the concept of Obamacare and “death panels”.
Ethel C. Fenig
Perhaps former Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) was referring to the tragic predicament of Barbara Wagner of Oregon when she wrote how she feared for the fate of her Down Syndrome son under “Obama’s ‘Death Panels.’ “
Susan Donaldson James of ABC News reports on the letter Ms. Wagner received from the Oregon Health Plan in response to a $4000 a month drug her doctor prescribed after her lung cancer, long in remission, returned..
the insurance company refused to pay.
What the Oregon Health Plan did agree to cover, however, were drugs for a physician-assisted death. Those drugs would cost about $50.
Hmmmm, let’s do the math. Yep, a one time prescription of $50 sure is cheaper than $4000 a month for who knows how many months to keep a 64 year old woman alive. So the Oregon “Death Panel” graciously offered suicide pills. Or doctor assisted murder.
But Ms. Wagner had an understandably different reaction.
“It was horrible,” Wagner told ABCNews.com. “I got a letter in the mail that basically said if you want to take the pills, we will help you get that from the doctor and we will stand there and watch you die. But we won’t give you the medication to live.”
Ah, but Ms. Wagner wanted to live. And she didn’t care what the Oregon “Death Panel” – uhm, Oregon Health Plan decided. …
As Rush Limbaugh says, Palin’s “dead right” about the “death panels”.
That Sarah Palin is such a nut. She’s such a nut that the entire liberal-left media can’t stop issuing forth all manner of vehement denials and obfuscations in defence of their contention that (a) Sarah Palin is a nut and her “15 minutes of fame” are, once again, long expired, and she’s dead to them, really, we mean it this time; and (b) this could never possibly happen in Obama’s fabulous “health care” plan, we insist, and though we can offer no particular proof, trust us, we’re the government, OK well we’re not really, we’re the media, but we’re really close to Barack….
It’s hard not to notice the excess protestations among liberals after the (spot-on) Palin remarks. They seem to be really upset about it.
Even Obama himself derisively sniffs in “town hall” meetings that “some opponents of healthcare reform” (possibly “the mob”, or perhaps “Nazis”!) are bringing up the phony idea that there will be “death panels” in his government’s socialist plans. This from a president and leader of a group who can’t stop talking up free abortions and from a man who as a Senator voted to deny survivors of botched abortion the protections they need as human being, to simply live, oh and who speak out in favor of euthanasia all day long.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to automatically assume that the Democrats thousand-page “health care” manifesto won’t include provisions for “free” (taxpayer-paid) abortions as a part of their government-run “medical care” program. And, because I’m not totally stupid, euthanasia too. Just as I have no doubt Canada will add euthanasia to their list of “medically necessary” funding which already includes unlimited free abortions for any reason or no reason whatsoever, since so many liberals constantly demand an equally free euthanasia law be enacted too. (For humans!)
Meanwhile, the very well respected The Hill reports that the ever so nutty “death panel” bits that were never there have now been taken out of the Congress’ “health care” bill, post-Palin’s-remarks.
Finance Committee to drop end-of-life provision
By Michael O’Brien
Posted: 08/13/09 02:21 PM [ET]The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday.
The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as “death panels” to encourage euthanasia. …
Liberals claim they’re losing this debate because so many lies are being told about them and their “health care” plans. Liberals aren’t afraid of people telling lies about them and their ideas. What they’re afraid of is people telling the truth about them.
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