Posted on 11/26/2013 11:36:27 AM PST by thouworm
What a difference a couple of months make:
As has been explained here, here, here, here, here and here, the new health care law contains no death panels. The Independent Payment Advisory Board, a government panel that may determine some Medicare payments rates, is expressly banned from rationing care. End-of-life counseling, a provision in an early version of a health reform bill that would pay doctors to talk to Medicare patients about living wills, was stripped from the final version.
— “Sarah Palin Won’t Let ‘Death Panels’ Die,” Time magazine, September 10, 2013.
Flash-forward to today — and flash-forward to the eight minute mark of this video, taken from today’s edition of The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV, or simply click on the version below, which is queued up to the point at which Mark Halperin of Time magazine admits…
The Affordable Care Act contains provisions for “death panels,” which decide which critically-ill patients receive care and which won’t, according to Mark Halperin, senior political analyst for Time magazine.
“It’s built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be part of how costs are controlled,” Halperin told [Malzberg].
If only Mitt Romney’s nomination in 2012 hadn’t created a ripple in the space-time continuum that retroactively prevented Halperin and the rest of Time-Warner-CNN-HBO from telling the truth about Obamacare in 2009 and 2010, as he preposterously claimed last week in his interview on Fox News with Laura Ingraham, instead having CNN high school kids on back then, to sing its praises and baking cakes and fist-bumping in honor of Fearless Leader.
Perhaps to begin to make amends for lying to the public all these years, Time magazine could begin by doing a cover story titled “Broken Promise:”
Update: Comment made; question asked:
@brithume @AdamBaldwin Where does Sarah Palin go to get her apology? Or will Liberals claim she was just made a ‘lucky guess’?
— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) November 25, 2013
WOW!!! First NBC and now TIME. It’s worst for the Democrats then anyone thought. The media is melting down.
All those independent liberal journalist are starting to look at their cancellation notices.
The most toxic of them will find a way to ride the storm out. They have a survival instincts second only tot he Cockroach.
Nah, the cancellation notices have little to nothing to do with it. The media knew that Obama was lying, but they don’t want to share the label with Obama. If the media suffers the same loss of trust that Obama is suffering, the media will be as impotent as Obama.
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey February 9, 2009
It's Bloomberg news but it tells you about the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.
Somehow the most basic law of economics escapes these people.
Or, alternatively, they think they are smart enough to overcome it. You’re more likely to overcome gravity, though, than the fact that
resources are limited and wants are unlimited,
and therefore there has to be some rationing mechanism.
You think that’s od....how about David Letterman caving!!!
http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/190077-late-night-smash-o-care-success-stories!
Medicaid conveniently groups together the sick and elderly---as Obama's IPAB board of radical Boobamba worshippers sit in judgment.
TRANSLATION Here's Boobamba's Orwellian-speak---the progressive way of saying "Obamacare keeps costs down."
The infamous "Death Panels---are alive and well----but they're not called death panels......for obvious reasons.
The treacherous Obama euphemistically calls his death panel "I-PAB---- Individual Payment Advisory Board."
---the I-PAB decides what to pay and who to pay---thus rationing medical care to sick oldsters.
THE FORWARD PLAN Obamacare "allows" states to expand their Medicaid recipients pool. Washington now covers about 1/2 the cost of today's pre-Obamacare Medicaid enrollees.
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What is I-PAB? FReeper Jim Noble posted:
When you find out about IPAB, you will absolutely not believe it - but it’s real. It is a new type of government agency. You know how the EPA, the IRS, the FCC, etc. are the “fourth branch”?
IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board) is the first agency of the “fifth branch” of govt.
1) It will make all important health care decisions by authorizing payment or not.
2) It is not funded by Congress and cannot have its budget reviewed or changed.
3) Its membership cannot be changed by future Presidents,
4) It cannot be repealed by Congress, except for a six month window in 2017.
5) Its decisions are not subject to judicial review.
6) It is not authorized by the Constitution, and is therefore immune to Constitutional processes.
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Why is Obamacre herding seniors WITH ASSETS onto Medicaid---a program structured for the poor?
Can you say redistribution of wealth?
Herding the elderly with assets into Medicaid has ominous consequences intriguing to the left. B/c assets, perhaps a home owned free and clear, securities, annuities, investment property, can be seized to pay for govt treatment.
Thus intergenerational transfers of wealth (longtime progressive bugaboo)----are decimated.
Coming to a hospital/elderlycare facility near you. Not only are they useless eaters, they have a memory of America at odds with the transformative vision of the socialist/fascist American dystopia :
RIGGING THE FUTURE: Obamacare Databases With No Function Beyond Gathering Voter Information
All you have to do is understand how leftists think, and you know what they are going to do.
Death panels were as predictible as the sun rising in the East.
I think the Death Panels are not getting credit for their main purpose - bailing out SocSec and Medicare.
Every year sliced off the life expectancy is HUGE on the budget calculations.
When the millenials get queasy about grandma’s premature departure, the regime will start sending them some student loan forgiveness Groupons on their smartphones.
They’ve been gathering information for years through the “Community Preventive Services Task Force” set up by Bush.
http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/
and they already have their own guide that has been published for the health care community and social services, and the psychologists/psychiatrists.
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html
and an article on their new power under the health care laws:
http://www.aei.org/article/health/healthcare-reform/the-bleeding-edge-of-rationing/
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