Posted on 02/02/2011 11:52:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"At a time when there is virtually unanimous agreement that health care reform is needed in this country, it is hard to invalidate and strike down a statute titled 'The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,' " Judge Roger Vinson observed Monday in his ruling in Florida v. HHS, which did just that.
It would have been a lot harder had ObamaCare enjoyed wide political support. But it did not and does not. Americans never bought the bill of goods that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and their supporters in the formerly mainstream media tried to sell. A good deal of the credit goes to Sarah Palin, for coining the phrase "death panel" in an August 2009 Facebook post.
Four months later PolitiFact.com, a project of the left-leaning St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, named the phrase "lie of the year":
Her assertion--that the government would set up boards to determine whether seniors and the disabled were worthy of care--spread through newscasts, talk shows, blogs and town hall meetings. Opponents of health care legislation said it revealed the real goals of the Democratic proposals. Advocates for health reform said it showed the depths to which their opponents would sink. Still others scratched their heads and said, "Death panels? Really?"
In truth, PolitiFact was more vulnerable to the charge of lying than Palin was, for its highly literal, out-of-context interpretation of her words was at best extremely tendentious. What she wrote was this:(continued)
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Palin’s calling them “death panels” was the absolute best moment of the “debate” over Obamacare. Now a judge has delivered a “death panel” notice on the wretched excess known as Obamacare. Sweet justice!
LOL. You’re so right! The *debate* turned on her three words: “Obama’s Death Panels”
WHACK!
WHACK!
That made me laugh. Palin distilled all the arguments against this bill in those three words.
It was brilliant.
Sarah has been out front on every significant issue or event the past two years. I am bewildered by those around here who claim she isn't electable. I can't think of another politician who has shown as much leadership as she has in that time.
I pay those naysayers very little mind. Most will come around when she's the nominee and those who don't probably won't be very welcome around here.
Sarah Palin stands for everything Free Republic stands for, so if she can't be elected, then our Republic is lost, but I truly believe we can see to it that she's elected.
I agree! As soon as Sarah announces she is running, I’m volunteering for her campaign. I’ve already started networking with others in my state. For now, I’d probably be better off just staying away from FR. Might be better for my health. :-p
Don’t you dare stay away waiting on her announcement. She might wait for everyone else to announce, on the chance that someone will run whom she can support so she won’t have to run. (lol).
You are more optimistic than me. The establishment GOP would work against her. We saw in the last election. They loath the TEA Party moment only slightly less than the left. Many of them would rather have 4 more years of BO than see their power shifted back to the people.
It's a political geological age til the next election. Regardless of the GOP nominee, I'll support them. I held my nose and worked for McCain, but only because of Palin.
Sarah Palin’s point is that by legislating the power to set hard limits rather than letting people choose where to stop in a free market, the system is distorted and, practically by axiom, distorted in the direction of less help being available rather than more.
I think most of the GOP-E would prefer a moderate, but most realize our Republic cannot withstand another 6 years of the Marxist. They will have to go with Sarah if [or when] she’s the nominee.
I hope you are right. I must admit, McConnell has changed his tune in the last couple of months. The media spins so much it is difficult to get a grasp on how the public actually stands. Polls are useless; most are biased.
Triage is only necessary when medical resources are strongly constrained, as in an widespread emergency, war, etc.
If the free market is allowed to operate, there will be no need for "triage."
Well said. You really are high tech for a Redneck.
When do you end treatment? People make these hard choices everyday. It is frustrating to deal with family members who have reached adulthood without ever considering the mortality of themselves or their loved ones. I can't tell you how many times families have insisted that heroic measured be expended for their 95 y/o granny or grandpaw. It causes a huge drain on resources and runs costs up for all of us.
In my experience, it is those who have little or no religious background who have the most difficulty letting go.
Having said that, placing those decisions with some nameless bureaucrat is NOT the answer. I wish there was an easy answer.
The health care system is aggressively abused because individuals are not paying for their own use are but rather disproportionately sucking resources from the collective whole.
As a direct payer, not picking up health care "benefits" from some employer, I've been priced out of health care as of the start of the calendar year.
For the same coverage, I was to be paying nearly $600 per month in premiums to cover one healthy person, whereas my state-employed brother pays $17 per month for his family of five with a multitude of chronic health issues. There's nothing "free market" about that scheme.
Well another Point Judge Vinson made in his Judgement was that this is NOT a Health CARE Reform issue,it is Health Insurance reform issue, Nowhere in the Bill does someone being FORCED to BUY Health Insurance does it say you Must go to the Doctor,but the Bill if found Constitutional would Give the Government the POWER to make you do just that and ANYTHING else they want you to do
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Palin can be a great asset but has no business in the Oval Office. We don't need ideologues or on-the-job training: we need proven skill at governance to fix the messes Obama's incompetence is causing.
Like it or not, Palin's a quitter. Among the best ways to assure four more years of Obama is to nominate the polarizing Sarah Palin. She's best where she is now as an external agitator for political reform and movements.
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