Posted on 12/21/2009 5:38:16 PM PST by bruinbirdman
A panel of experts ruled her claim the Obama administration was planning to introduce "death panels" was chosen as the most misleading statement of 2009.
Palin, 45, made the claim on her Facebook page at the height of the debate over President Obama's plans to reform the US health care system.
She wrote: "My parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide whether they are worthy of health care."
But the website PolitiFact.com found that there were never any plans to introduce so called "death panels" to decide who should live or die.
According to the website Palin's statement on her Facebook page generated a huge controversy and was mentioned almost 6,000 times over the next two months.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Go Sarah!!
Sarah was right. The logical conclusion to government controlled healthcare is that unseen government officials will make such decisions.
If this farce passes history will look kindly on her statement.
Politifact should be called PolitiHACK
Sarah nailed them and they know it.
You’ll see.
lol
Sarah was not lying. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/death_panel_is_not_in_the_bill.html
“The AP is technically correct in stating that end-of-life counseling is not the same as a death panel. The New York Times is also correct to point out that the health care bill contains no provision setting up such a panel.
What both outlets fail to point out is that the panel already exists.
H.R. 1 (more commonly known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, even more commonly known as the Stimulus Bill and aptly dubbed the Porkulus Bill) contains a whopping $1.1 billion to fund the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The Council is the brain child of former Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Tom Daschle. Before the Porkulus Bill passed, Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant governor of New York, wrote in detail about the Council’s purpose.
Daschle’s stated purpose (and therefore President Obama’s purpose) for creating the Council is to empower an unelected bureaucracy to make the hard decisions about health care rationing that elected politicians are politically unable to make. The end result is to slow costly medical advancement and consumption. Daschle argues that Americans ought to be more like Europeans who passively accept “hopeless diagnoses.”
or PolitiFLACK
Did they give the sainted Teddy Kennedy their award for his farciful excuses at Chappaquiddick?
Smell the fear!
“a panel of experts”??? The same type of experts who think CO2 is a dangerous pollutant? The same type who think Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize? The same type who claim 6th graders need to be taught about fisting?
Sarah was 100 percent RIGHT..there WILL be death panels. Government will decide which procedures you get and what operations you can get if you are considered “worthy enough” if your 80 years old, and you are determined by the Government to only have a few years left, forget about having that hip replacement surgery, won’t happen. Death Panels is a great way of describing rationed care which will happen once this monstrosity takes place
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=116471698434
This is the follow-up by Sarah.
Even Obama admitted this to be true. Of course if you ctrl-F the bill you won’t find the words “Death Panel” but let’s get real.
When all is said and done you have better be ready to eat some crow...
Health Care Advisor to the President and brother to Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff, published the following in The Lancet. The Administration has embraced Emanuel's approach and the cost restrictions in the bill fit with this world view.
Here's your DEATH PANEL OF ONE: GOODBYE GRANDMA AND BABIES!
Promise: “This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history” – Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release, November 16, 2006
Instead the democrats have produced the most corrupt and least open congress in history.
Actually what she said was that Obamacare would lead to deaath panels. When she made her comment she was referring to a Thomas Sowell column. There’s an excellent article in National Review detailing this. But why let the truth get in the way MSM.
Sarah is right.
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