Posted on 06/29/2010 9:04:19 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
The federal medical care overhaul would limit contributions to health savings accounts and raise insurance costs for people including those with special needs, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said at a fundraiser Tuesday for developmentally disabled children.
She warned that new rules aiming to raise $13 billion by limiting contributions to flexible spending accounts amount to a "hefty tax hike" for families of special needs children struggling with health care costs. And she said families will wind up with fewer care options.
"Our insurance and our care choices will be diminished by this new program," she said to an audience of several thousand at a suburban Atlanta arena. "The government's taking over one-sixth of our economy and we expect the government's going to do a better job than the private sector?"
She said that she was shocked when doctors told her the news when she was 12 weeks pregnant and wondered if she would be patient enough to handle the challenge. But she said she believed God prepared her heart for her son's birth during the pregnancy....
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Crowd went NUTS! LOL!
Sarah Palin said tonight:"A special needs child probably won't win a nobel prize. Although the nobel prize isn't what it used to be".
SARAH PALIN PING LIST "PING"
Ping!
It’s not just the elderly who will have their care rationed - it’s the very sick and disabled of all ages.
That’s the money quote right there. It took me a second to figure out what she meant then I went ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh NOW I get it :-) She’s good..she comes up with some gems
Great line! and so true!
I have a special needs grand daughter.
Sarah just hit another bull’s eye.
We are very worried.
Yes we did.
Well that certainly drew some blood from Obama’s ego....
The Liberals talk about disadvantaged, the sick, etc
Sarah Palin both speaks for and does for those in need and special needs.
Sarah walks the walk
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