No Problem With Death Panels, Not Even a Smidgen

Facebook ^ | May 16, 2014 | Sarah Palin

[Bratch]

No Problem With Death Panels, Not Even a Smidgen

Let’s take a stroll down “death panel” memory lane. Here are just a few excerpts for you to draw your own conclusions.

My Facebook Post on August 7, 2009:

• “And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”

Politifact declared my statement “Lie of the Year.” August 10, 2009, is their first claim:

• “We agree with Palin that such a system would be evil. But it's definitely not what President Barack Obama or any other Democrat has proposed.”

Hot Air yesterday, May 15, 2014:

• “VA Secretary Eric Shinseki declared himself ‘mad as hell’ over the allegations of wait-list fraud in Phoenix, where 40 veterans passed away before accessing medical assistance while the office falsified records.”

Daily Caller yesterday, May 15, 2014:

• “When individuals receive care through the VA, it becomes the only payer and hence, the only decision-maker. The VA decides who gets care, when, and how much. Moreover, as the single payer, the VA bears the risk of loss: If tax dollars aren’t enough to pay for the care demanded, there’s only one result —rationing of care.”

Again, remember what the influential (to other sheep in their leftist herd anyway) Politifact wrote about this “Lie of the Year”:

• “We agree with Palin that such a system would be evil. But it's definitely not what President Barack Obama or any other Democrat has proposed.”

Las Vegas Sun on August 10, 2013:

• “[Senator Harry] Reid said he thinks the country has to ‘work our way past’ insurance-based health care during a Friday night appearance on Vegas PBS’ program Nevada Week in Review. ‘What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever,’ Reid said. When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it [by moving to a single-payer system instead], Reid said: ‘Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.’”

And Barack Obama himself warned he wanted single-payer! June 30, 2003:

• “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care plan.”

Obama repeatedly warned America:

• obama master plan on health careover the years in his own words--

So, media, your average Joe Six Pack American (i.e. me) caught those warnings, and YOU didn’t? Riiight.

I love this American Awakening when finally more voters can’t say they weren’t warned. Stamped with the media’s “Lie of the Year”, I had the sticky label on my back for years used as convenient “proof” that commonsense conservatives just don’t know what we’re talking about. Denouncing from the Orwellian Left and a squishy Right ensued. But the truth stares us in the face and pocketbook, especially as we see the unworkable Obamacare.

What happens next is the Left will subtly suggest moving America toward a single-payer system, which was their intention all along. Watch for this gradual, but driving, descent into statism.

So, are you still relying on Obamacare to help and not hurt you? On the Democrat’s watch, health care in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats proves Reagan’s adage that government is not the solution; government is the problem.

And speaking of the VA scandal, we’ve seen how Obama merely gives lip service to his bureaucrats “investigating” his bureaucracy, so don’t be surprised if he finds nothing wrong in the government’s VA health system – “NOT EVEN A SMIDGEN”!

- Sarah Palin

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NOTE: Formatting by me.

[Bratch]

[MeshugeMikey]

Smidgeons everywhere!!! nearly COMPLETELY obscuring everything else....

[Gay State Conservative]

Governor Palin,among others,warned the country...early on...about the dangers of OsamaObamaCare.Her warnings have proven to be accurate.

Both Governors Palin *and* Romney,among others,warned us about Vlad Putin.Those warnings,*too*,have proven to be accurate.

[Iron Munro]

[Izzy Dunne]

Sarah was wrong when she said these folks "will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ ".

They don't get to face the panel. Their fate is decided without their knowledge.

[Iron Munro]

[KC_Lion]

Ping to Sarah's Awesome List!

She Loves and cares for our Combat Veterans.

Who have been Baptized in Flame.

No Man Is Obsolete, but any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymJAsxHbVg

[trisham]

bump!

[GeronL]

Sarah can smidge me if she wants to

[amihow]

PLEASE NOTE!

In the last two months, I have followed two cases of elderly, sick but able to get well patients treated in two different hospitals in two different states. In both cases, a pro-life physician, not involved with the patient’s hospital doctors, consulted on a long term basis outraged at the lack of care these patients were receiving.
Had it been one case, I could chalk it up to chance.
However, when I saw the exact same events happening to two patients, I now am leaning toward behind the scenes policy provisions.
In both cases, the patients were hydrated intravenously, but NOT given enough fluid to really hydrate. They were both fed artificially, but both given only about 20% of the calories necessary to help them heal. They were both given more Morphine than necessary for their pain. They both were not give certain diagnostic tests which would have been routinely given a younger patient.

Learn what is necessary for your hospitalized loved ones. Monitor constantly. Yell loudly. Go to court for order to treat.

Vote pro-life. But really pro-life.

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[I want the USA back]

Their plan was to give free care to aids patients, sex-change operations, abortions, and euthanazia to the elderly, while letting the normal people die.

[little jeremiah]

I don’t see anyone else I want as president except her. Every other potential R candidate has so much baggage/flaws/says something disgusting they cannot hold a candle to her.

[Jane Long]

Sarah’s accuracy rate scares the h$&& out of the left.

[Friendofgeorge]

Absolutely, why aren`t we hearing from NBC etc that Sarah was correct after all? And what about Fox News, has anybody from that news room even given her props lately

[Patriot Babe]

Awesome episode. No doubt Rod Serling was ahead of his time more like a modern day Prophet.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SP bump

[RefudiateObama2012]

Do you understand the use of a metaphor? Like it or not, we all will be standing before Obama’s death panels, not literally, but certainly in reality.

[GOPJ]

If dems will ‘death panel our vets they’ll damn sure death panel the rest of us...

[wintertime]

If dems will ‘death panel our vets they’ll damn sure death panel the rest of us...

That single sentence should be on every billboard in America.