Gov. Rick Perry - “FED UP!”
……Now my friend Sarah Palin took a lot of heat for calling this as she saw it—the empowerment of death panels. But is she wrong? Sure, there isn’t a section titled “death panels” in the law, but that’s not how the statist works. The scheme is built around the central premise that federal bureaucrats get to decide a lot of things for you, and they are motivated by controlling costs, redistribution and “fairness.” As one expert, Dr. Alan Garber of Stanford University said, “Being able to say no is the heart of the issue.” We give those bureaucrats the power, and they want to say no in order to make the system work.
Matters of life and death, indeed. I honestly have no words to describe how frightening this whole scheme is and how badly it undermines freedom. Indeed, as Daniel Hannan, a British member of Parliament who knows socialized medicine firsthand, said, “The idea that this, of all countries, could put into the power of a state bureaucracy decisions over what kind of medical treatment you get, literally whether you can live or die, is deeply un-American.
Most concerning is Obama’s appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The President was savvy enough to appoint this Massachusetts doctor in a recess appointment rather than the typical Senate confirmation process, knowing that a Senate hearing would likely spark public outrage and possibly derail Berwick’s confirmation. Berwick is an outspoken fan both of health care rationing and the British health care system, which is a model of socialized medicine. Berwick once said, “The decision is not weather or not we will ration care—the decidison is whether we will ration with our eyes open.” He has also opined that the government “can make a sensible social decision” and deny access to certain medical care because it is “so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds.” Shouldn’t your doctor make that decision? Remember those “death panels?”……. Source
I told my doctor yesterday that we are now ‘units’ in the eyes of the government.
He said, that sounds like science fiction.
Obama is completely evil. This whole fast and furious thing should cause his impeachment. There’s nothing he’d like better than to take our guns away and take over the country.
Am I paranoid? Or is somebody after me?