Posted on 01/19/2013 7:36:56 PM PST by Bratch
Via Breitbart:
On August 1, 2009–just seven months into President Barack Obama’s first term–former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin predicted Obama would attempt to leverage health care to “take away” the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
In a speech to National Rifle Association members in Anchorage, Alaska, Palin said Americans should be “wary” of this “tie-in” because Obama would attempt to “take away our rights under the guise of some new health care plan”:
And by the way, [with] health care being so big in D.C. right now, be wary when some kind of tie-in occurs. Because it will crop up: a tie-in with guns in an attempt to take away our rights under the guise of some new health care plan. You know that this is coming–that the two issues will somehow crop up and they’ll be tied together. So we have to be very wary of that.
On Wednesday–more than three years after Palin’s warning–Obama did exactly what the former governor forecasted.
During a press conference wherein he issued 23 executive actions regarding guns and unveiled his gun control proposals, including a ban on so-called assault weapons, Obama said “doctors and other health care providers also need to be able to ask about firearms in their patients’ homes and safe storage of those firearms, especially if their patients show signs of certain mental illnesses or if they have a young child or mentally ill family member at home.”
To make it easier for doctors to do so, Obama also issued executive actions that would “clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.” The White House also released “a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.”
In Obama’s gun control plan, which the White House released on Wednesday, there is a section titled “Preserve The Rights of Mental Health Care Providers To Protect Their Patients and Communities From Gun Violence.”It reads, “we should never ask doctors and other health care providers to turn a blind eye to the risks posed by guns in the wrong hands,” and proposes to:
• Clarify that no federal law prevents health care providers from warning law enforcement authorities about threats of violence: Doctors and other mental health professionals play an important role in protecting the safety of their patients and the broader community by reporting direct and credible threats of violence to the authorities. But there is public confusion about whether federal law prohibits such reports about threats of violence. The Department of Healthand Human Services is issuing a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibitsthese reports in any way.
• Protect the rights of health care providers to talk to their patients about gun safety: Doctors and other health care providers also need to be able to ask about firearms in their patients’ homes and safe storage of those firearms, especially if their patients show signs of certain mental illnesses or if they have a young child or mentally ill family member at home. Some have incorrectly claimed that language in the Affordable Care Act prohibits doctors from asking their patients about guns and gun safety. Medical groups also continue to fight against state laws attempting to ban doctors from asking these questions. The Administration will issue guidance clarifying that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit or otherwise regulate communication between doctors and patients, including about firearms.
The NRA, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief, said the Florida law “exhorts doctors to stick to practicing medicine… rather than pushing their own political agendas, and it protects patients from doctors who refuse to do so.”
More than three years ago in her speech (blogger “KentonAK” first revealed the existence of the footage), Palin noted–to the Alaska NRA members–she was the only person on either ticket during the 2008 election who was a lifetime member of the NRA.
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Just wondering, if anyone knows...
What make of shotgun is she holding in that pic?
You know, I’m in MN, and I’m starting to see this, too. Suddenly, the questionnaire’s seem very strange. I told a receptionist Friday that I had left some questions unanswered because it seemed to me that they were not pertinent to developing a picture of my health. She said, “That’s OK. We’re just trying to get to know you better.” It seemed ominous. Later, a nurse asked me some questions, too. I really felt like I was being spied on, like I was going to be reported to attackwatch.com. It was all freaky. Thanks for your post.
I think, a Mossberg.
Ditto that... I am truly amazed at so called conservatives I see here who continue to trash this patriot. They will reap what they sow...looks like we are well on the way to that.
Your post - #7 - is so good, it brought tears to my eyes. And almost nothing does that any more.
My Doctors suddenly need a pix of me. They have cameras hooked up to the front desk PC.
I have said no. I cannot conceive of an instance where a pic of me would be necessary.
At the eye doctor, the lady said, “Okay, we’ll make a note that you declined the picture.” I said, “You do that.” :)
Just answer NOYB... NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
My FB profile picture is me standing next to her cardboard cutout in the Skagway Alaska Sarah Palin store.
I absolutely adore her. Anyone who speaks badly of her is dead to me.
When these newest Executive Orders were signed, I wondered if there was even one doctor in MN the I could go to that I felt I could trust. You know of one, let me know too!
I’ve stopped reading the comments on her threads. Too many idiots, just like you said.
Beautiful and prefect!
Thanks so very much, sweet MM!
Collapsing all around him? Goodness gracious, I wish I could see that. I’m living an alternate reality where he is strengthening his empire, and I am losing hope.
Great picture!
Imagine the rock star reception from 2008 combined with 6 years of being a governor with a solidly conservative record. We'd be talking about President Palin at this point.
Have you EVER seen a bad picture of Sarah Palin? She could be wearing michelle obama’s clothes and still look good.
How about a questionnaire that asks about your religion? That’s a new one.
Yes, but I don’t believe she would. :)
Ya know, I have seen and answered that question for years...but until now it didn’t disturb me. What a weird world we live in where a question that was intended to provide succor in times of extreme illness now becomes a question that potentially means persecution.
Nope!
She is Super Photogenic!
Sarah Palin has more leadership and courage than Joan of Arc, Thatcher or the Elizabethan queen. But Sarah’s beauty is many times greater than of those women and her understanding of freedom and conservatism makes her far above these women of history
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