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Sebelius: I can’t suspend the lung-transplant rules for a dying 10-year-old
Hotair ^ | 06/04/2013 | AllahPundit

Posted on 06/04/2013 6:35:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/04/2013 6:35:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This is what a death panel looks like.

2 posted on 06/04/2013 6:37:49 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I despise this ho.


3 posted on 06/04/2013 6:38:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: chris37

She runs true to her gene pool.
The spawn of idiot former Ohio gov. Gilligan.


4 posted on 06/04/2013 6:40:01 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if the girl’s parents are Republicans?


5 posted on 06/04/2013 6:40:04 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

At least can she have more soup? How far society has toppled and no modern Dickens in sight.


6 posted on 06/04/2013 6:40:06 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: SeekAndFind

Ol’ Stinkeye, the one-person death panel.


7 posted on 06/04/2013 6:43:06 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: SeekAndFind

Thwe girl just needs to post a fabricated birth certificate online showing that she was born in 1961 and she’ll be fine. What makes anybody think she’s not an adult anyway?


8 posted on 06/04/2013 6:43:45 PM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: La Lydia

You stole my line, but I think you nailed it. A one-person death panel. This is what happens when the gov’t runs health care.


9 posted on 06/04/2013 6:45:25 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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10 posted on 06/04/2013 6:45:31 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: butterdezillion

If she were only a little browner the papers would be signed already.


11 posted on 06/04/2013 6:45:46 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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12 posted on 06/04/2013 6:46:16 PM PDT by McBuff
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To: central_va
I wonder if the girl’s parents are Republicans?

I ran a search on political contributions and didn't find anything.

Dad is Global Director, Customer Strategy & Global Sales Operations for SAP in Philly.

13 posted on 06/04/2013 6:47:10 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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Sarah Palin Was Right – Update: Gov. Palin Weighs In on the Sebelius Decision

Posted on June 04 2013 - 4:24 PM - Posted by:

August 7, 2009

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.

Lisa Murkowski

“It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there’s these end-of-life provisions, these death panels,” Murkowski, a Republican, said. “Quite honestly, I’m so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn’t (in the bill). There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill.”

Rep. Earl Blumenauer

Democrat (Oregon) who authored the provision on end-of-life counseling, said he is astounded that Palin has not tempered her bleak descriptions of the health care bill. ”It’s deliberate at this point,” Blumenauer said. “If she wasn’t deliberately lying at the beginning, she is deliberately allowing a terrible falsehood to be spread with her name.”

June 4, 2013

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rebuffed an appeal from Rep. Lou Barletta on behalf of a girl who needs a lung transplant but can’t get one because of a federal regulation that prevents her from qualifying for a transplant.

“I would suggest, sir, that, again, this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies,” Sebelius replied. “The medical evidence and the transplant doctors who are making the rule — and have had the rule in place since 2005 making a delineation between pediatric and adult lungs, because lungs are different that other organs — that it’s based on the survivability [chances].” Barletta countered that medical professionals think Murneghan could survive an adult lung transplant. During the exchange, he also said that the girl has three to five weeks to live.

Sebelius reminded Barletta that 40 people in Pennsylvania are on the “highest acuity list” for lung transplants.


Dear Murkowski and Blumenauer, You were wrong. Dead wrong. Signed, Future Obamacare Victim 

Update by Stacy: Governor Palin just weighed in on the Sebelius decision, via Facebook:

The government will bend the rules left and right to harass targeted taxpayers, conservative patriots, selected journalists, etc., but it will strictly exercise inconsistent and subjective rules to deny a child a shot at life. And they called us liars when we spoke of “death panels” – faceless bureaucrats coming between you and your doctor to make life and death decisions about a loved one’s survival. It doesn’t sound so far fetched anymore, does it?

- Sarah Palin


14 posted on 06/04/2013 6:48:00 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: SeekAndFind

I refuse to accept the “new normal”. How soon can the adults be put back in charge?


15 posted on 06/04/2013 6:49:22 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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16 posted on 06/04/2013 6:49:47 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gee, a bureaucrat deciding who lives and dies . . . who’da’ thunked’ that’d happen? Palin? Who’s she? Ain’t ‘dis a wunnerful’ country?


17 posted on 06/04/2013 6:50:23 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: nascarnation

She is truly vile.


18 posted on 06/04/2013 6:51:37 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yet another “late term abortion”” to this witch!


19 posted on 06/04/2013 6:52:06 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: nascarnation

If the parents were two lesbians and the girl was an adopted Asian, she would have the lungs already.


20 posted on 06/04/2013 6:52:22 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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