Posted on 06/26/2012 5:39:53 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
As we wait for the impending Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, I reiterate what I wrote in my first post on this topic nearly three years ago. I stand by everything I wrote in that warning to my fellow Americans because what was true then is true now, and it will remain true as we hear what the Supreme Court has to say.
It was a pretty long post, but a lot of people seem to have only read two words of it: “death panel.” Though I was called a liar for calling it like it is, many of these accusers finally saw that Obamacare did in fact create a panel of faceless bureaucrats who have the power to make life and death decisions about health care funding. It’s called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), and its purpose all along has been to “keep costs down” by actually denying care via price controls and typically inefficient bureaucracy. This subjective rationing of care is what I was writing about in that first post:
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. 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.
Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion.
Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the president’s health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the White House chief of staff, in a floor speech to the House of Representatives. I commend her for being a voice for the most precious members of our society, our children and our seniors.
We must step up and engage in this most crucial debate. Nationalizing our health care system is a point of no return for government interference in the lives of its citizens. If we go down this path, there will be no turning back. Ronald Reagan once wrote, “Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” Let’s stop and think and make our voices heard before it’s too late.
If the Supreme Court doesn’t strike down Obamacare entirely, then Congress must act to repeal IPAB and Obamacare before it is indeed “too late.” All of Obamacare must go one way or another.
- Sarah Palin
Sarah is soooo right! God Bless Sarah !!!!!!!!!
GOD how I wish she was our President. Haven’t felt this way about anyone since Reagan.
Thank you Sarah for the heads up while patting yourself on the back, oh and thanks for your faux run for the WH. I really loved how you rode that bus up to the last minute keeping us all hoping that you were really going to run.
this is so true. my experiences with HMOs in the 80s does not inspire me with confidence. they were mostly concerned with the bottom line which does not provide the ideal venue for humanitarian decisions for humanity. death panel captures the essence of the problem. sarah, as ever, has nailed it again.
the wife who votes for the Dhimmicrats in homage to her union supporting father...when I mentioned ‘Death Panels’ said something to the effect ‘and you dont think insurance companies dont have death panels?’
interesting point...because for decades I have had to fight insurance companies on one thing or another...I do not think that insurance companies have death panels....but they sure dont make things easy to get necessary medical attention.
Just my opinion, I think Sarah planned on running until Bristol was accosted by that jerk in the night club. The next time she appeared on Greta the spark was out of her eyes & her demeanor was subdued. I had been telling my family she was running but that night I told them she was out of the race. Perhaps she realized, beyond any doubt, that her children would never be safe if she ran........
Don’t be bitter. She is doing what she thinks is best to help the country. Did you want her to be one of the many good candidates who were forced out by a coordinated effort of the elites of both parties? She saw the handwriting on the wall and knew that she must travel a different path. She prays for guidance and she TRUSTS God. My guess is that her path is the right one and we don’t really know, just yet, where it will lead.
If a Death Panel decision results in your death, have you been denied your right to life under the constitution; and has the federal Death Panel removed your life without due process?
Since when did 2 evils make a good? Twins in thinking, signing legislation, etc. Trading one d socialist for an r socialist does not compute.
When bad seed is sowed on bad soil it produces a bad crop. For all those who complain of Snowe, Graham, Collins and the former Specter this is what you will get if you go ahead and drink the koolaide and vote for Myth 0'rombaney.
Ecc12:13-14
13) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
14)For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.
Perhaps she’s just moving the election four years...
She’s got the support.
While insurance companies can’t and won’t pay out the wazoo on every conceivable health issue, it’s not the mere existence of an entity that decides to not provide a health care service or treatment, but where the decision is to be made. Like everything else the leftists do, they want it in the governments hands - authoritarian, top-down, 5-year-planish socialistic and masterminded. On the other hand, capitalism/individual-liberty/property-rights relies on trillions of micro-decisions made in a distributed fashion, where the best knowledge exists and where it involves at least to some degree the individual. That is why these are “Death Panels” in the hand of big government; while it is business-but-involving-patients-and-their-needs when not in the hands of big government.
But there is a critical difference which your wife needs to be made aware of:
An insurance company “death panel” is only at worst a refusal to pay for needed medical services—you still have the option of pursuing critical medical care at your own cost.
An Obamacare death panel is a complete refusal of the provision of critical medical services—at any price—so the option of pursuing the saving of your own life is cut off BY YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT!
An insurance company is a private entity that is just as responsive to negotiation, regulation, and lawsuit as you are. If it wrongfully denies a claim, you have a number of useful methods to get it to cough up: appeals, state Insurance Commissioner, and if all else fails a lawsuit.
Most states have severe penalties for insurers that wrongfully deny claims. It can amount to a quarter of the denied benefits, plus your attorney fees. And insurance commissioners have the power to deny a company permission to write in your state, if the violation is egregious enough.
Often it is only necessary to breathe the words "insurance commissioner" or "bad faith penalties" to get a response.
In contrast, you can't sue the federal government except in very limited circumstances, and I will bet you dollars to donuts that some sort of immunity from suit for the Death Panels and the gummint is hidden somewhere in that two thousand pages of ObamaCare.
But there are plenty of people (mostly liberals/radicals but also just lazy) who would rather use the government to force payment for everything, than exercise personal responsibility to read their insurance policies, negotiate a better deal, or pay for something themselves.
The problem of course is that the "payment for everything" is a completely illusory government promise which the government cannot possibly keep. Hence the death panels.
Insurance companies don't do that and we wouldn't give them that sort of power either.
In fact, why give ANYONE that kind of power over you and your family??? Especially the government?
I agree.
It’s pretty obvious that the death panels are the (unspoken) answer to the impending financial implosion of Social Security and Medicare.
Sarah, we love you. Looking forward to your presence this election? Please, pretty please...
well reasoned and said.
I truely fear what will happen if the Supreme Court does not rule the entire obamacare unconstitutional. It is nothing less than the reinstitution of slavery in this country. Our “masters” in Washington will have near complete control of our lives. If we don’t behave exactly as they tell us, then we don’t get medical care. If we are deemed useless to society the death panels will take care of us.
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