Step away from granny's vent tube, sir

JSOnline ^ | October 17, 2009 | Patrick McIlheran

[chickadee]

"If nobody wants a "death panel" fiddling with Grandma's oxygen tube, then why do people who want health care to be a more collective experience have such a history of saying old people ought to die?

The latest is a video that went viral last week of a 2007 speech from Robert Reich, one of the progressives' big-idea guys. Reich told a crowd what a candidate for president should say if he were honest.

Among the gems: "If you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive, so we're going to let you die."

Keep in mind that while Reich isn't the president, neither is he some crazy guy the Democrats keep in the attic. He was Bill Clinton's labor secretary. Barack Obama put him on the transition team. He teaches policy at Berkeley. And he's not the first one to say old people ought to jog that lonesome valley. Such ideas are in the air."

[chickadee]

Mumia yes, granny no.

[originalbuckeye]

I WISH someone could find the video of Pelosi saying ‘those over 55 use entirely too much of our health care resources’. I have tried and tried. I think it was on Stephie's Sunday Show early in the summer. Can anyone help?

[ari-freedom]

Pelosi btw is 69 years old

[originalbuckeye]

Yeah, but she has uber-Cadillac Congressional Health Care. You know that our Legislators will not be bound by the Socialized Medicine they want to foist on all of us, don't you?