The strange plot of the national debate over health reform this took another twist over the weekend, after (now suddenly ex- Alaska governor) Sarah Palin posted a statement on her Facebook page on Friday denouncing the Obama administration’s plan to reshape the healthcare system as “downright evil.”
In a statement referencing Ronald Reagan and the economist Thomas Sowell, Palin warned of bureaucratic “death panels” that would decide “if my parents (or yours) or my baby with Down Syndrome” are “worthy of healthcare based on their level of productivity in society.”
The full text of the post:
“As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized
health care plan that the current administration is rushing through
Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re saying not just no,
but hell no.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.
- Sarah Palin
Rep. Bachmann’s speech can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CHBvKGmevI
Republican, Democrat. Both sides of the same filthy coin. The New American Aristocrats. They make the rules, and needn’t abide by them.
Republicans lie about: National Security, Individual Liberties, Supporting Small Business, One Nation Under God…
Democrats Lie about: Public Safety, The Greater Good, We will Care for You, Lifting up the Downtrodden, Government Aid…
Each side marshals it’s forces: Pro-Choice, Anti-Abortion, Union, Business, Gun Ban, Self-Protection. Each group a sure bet of voters and money. Each group marches where commanded.
And you can say it’s our fault, and vote the bastards out. And you can say, you get what you vote for. But I didn’t see any other choices. Did you?
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Of course Sara Palin’s views would never be heard had she not been on the McCain ticket. So now this embarrassment of a politician with a sub-par intellect gets to espouse on the national stage and the insipid American media covers every word. She is promoting the tried and true Republican agenda to hinder or destroy any initiative the government tries to help the average citizen. Ask her to define “socialism” if you want a good laugh. God help this country if it continues to promote the views of fools like her.
Could not agree more Sarah! Less government is the best way. If Obama has his way, I quit!!! I enjoy working as an RN, but I’d rather clean gutters and windows, lay sod, shovel manure or put pickles in a jar than work as a nurse for Obama and his National Health sCare.
Sincerely,
- 1 RN
I will never understand how republicans can spend so much time arguing for the life of an unborn child while at the same time arguing against feeding and providing healthcare for that child once it makes it into the world.
I’m so glad I was born British and not American. I’d chose our so-called “Socialist” National Health Service over your ridiculously costly alternative any day of the week!
Palin is a smart women, This story help me to think, do obamas plan are worth it for the country or just for himself, to say…” HE DID SOMETHING”"”
ny grandma lived to be 99 yrs of age. at 89 she came back from broke pelvis and 91 a gallbladder and 6 inches of her intestines removed. on this particular surgery 1of 4 in the group of doctors would say I think she is strong enough to come back kicking and she did from a 6 wk stay in hospital to be at her home of 60 yrs till she was 96 and the broke hip got her. she remained in a nursing home till 99 and 2 months . my question in at what point would she have stopped recieving healthcare
I am Happy that Americans are now suffering and Begging for health care reform. Why? because back when Hilary Clinton was pushing for health care for each american in the 1980s , What did y’all do? You shot her down like a bird out of the sky saying that she was trying to promote a communist America. Well now you got a dying liberal america run by the multibillion dollar phamaceutical and insurance companies who are getting a Sick Glee from poor americas misery. Serves you right. thats Karma 101
Wake up people, look around it’s happening in front of all of our eyes and some are to blind to see it!!! Sarah Palin is telling the truth. Read the fine print Obama is going to drive the United States down the drain! Would you like it when your parents or grandparents get old and they have no choice in healthcare? Or if you have a kid with a disorder or some kind of medical disease and you can’t get healthcare for them? I KNOW FOR A FACT I WOULDN’T WANT THAT FOR ANYONE!!!!! It’s like euthanizing a dog but, only this time they’re humans!!!!! that’s just cruel it’s like he’s trying to play God or something. If he keeps this up we’ll have no freedoms left at all.
If you people want a socialism for government then move to another country! THIS IS AMERICA IF YOU DON’T LOVE IT THEN LEAVE! Stop trying to change what we fought so hard to get from Britain. We fought for freedom and we won it over bloody battles. And here we are and some of you want to give our freedom away!! I’m an American and i like my freedoms especially when it concerns my families or my life!
It is the paradox of the great Union that some of the so called freedoms that are championed, are in fact some of the heaviest shackles and obstacles to equality and freedom, unworthy of a great democratic state.
Under the cover of sometimes religious, dogmatic arguments – or worse – by abusing the good word liberty, the cause of Freedom is used to protect horrible injustices and bigotry.
Nobody can accuse the US of not taking its responsibility in the fight for democracy and freedom in the world. There would be no free western world without its contributions in two world wars and in the buildup of ruined societies in the afthermath.
How is it, then, that this great nation will inflict on its society millions of suffering, barely literate masses, without health care protection worthy a name. How can this society have committed thousands of its failed children to fry in electric chairs and to this day kill its own citizens by bestial means. How can it allow guns on each street corner and claim this to be more or less a human rights issue, while the Columbines come in quick succession.
And, how can it allow someone like Sarah Palin to get away with this sort of language, which can only appeal to the most populistic masses, the most basic, bigotted and uneducated minds? For those of us who admire and love the United States, this remains a constantly troubling thought.
Give the ones that seek to change the wrongly established dogmas a chance. “See wrong and try to right it” is the word that EMK would have used.
Might makes right, survival of the fittest, and love your country or leave it sounds more like Satanism than Xianity.
Oh Sarah, yes you are pretty hot. But that comment you made is the most fear mongering, ignorant thing to ever come out of her stupid piehole. And that says a lot. A genuine effort by some to try to help out millions struggling to get healthcare, as well as all of us that have it and could be screwed over by coverage denials any time that the insurance company decides they dont really want to pay. Absolutely shameful, I understand that people have concerns, we all do, but these kind of statements most notably from our ex-vp canditate/ex-alaska governor, are absolutely dispicable.
The fact of the matter is that with so many other countries attempting to provide universal health insurance for its citizens and failing, you would think our government would learn something. Right at home we have states like Massachusetts and Oregon that have offered universal health insurance and are seeing massive deficits with no choice but to kick folks out of the program. Massachusetts recently had to force over 30,000 people out of their plan due to cost overruns. Additionally, are you telling me the White House isn’t considering so-called Death Panels like the one essentially in place in Oregon – we can’t pay for an expensive drug to keep you alive, but we’ll pay to have you commit suicide. If you believe in this kind of government control, then you are IN THE WRONG COUNTRY – LEAVE NOW!
We are all for reform but the 1100 pages of reform and not one mention of lawyer reform. Why? Because the politicians are lawyers.
Check out this funny video.
http://www.socializelawyers.com
Or go to youtube and type in socialize lawyers.
Sarah Palin is such a liar! For her to sit here and tell people she is all worried that her son who is on Downs sydrome wouldnt get the care that he is needed on the Democratic’s healthcare plan is such a bunch of bogus! My son is disabled as well, he has cerebral palsy. He was denied coverage in the state we live in because I made too much money according to the state income guidelines. I have a very small income and not the type of job which Sarah Palin has had or her husband. I’m sure if the state of Alaska, government run health insurance was based on income, she wouldnt qualify either! Government based health coverage is at this time, based on income! It was put in place for people who have low incomes, not high incomes. The people on it don’t always have coverage for everything nor do they always get to see a doctor of choice. This is because it is governement based. Most people on medical assistance dont care where they have to go to do the doctor because they cant afford it. They’d rather have it paid for them than receive a bill. The new plan is basically very similar than what is out there now. The only difference is that it won’t be income based, however it’s still free. So, maybe the rich people who have their own private insurance won’t need to use it but still have the option. Also, no matter what way you look at it, everyone will pay taxes just like they always have, it’s really no difference than now.
Socialism does not work, read history.
No one has the right to healthcare. Based on what philosophy? If one want’s health insurance they can purchase it. If they cannot afford it then they do not have the right to force someone else to pay, that is called tyranny, stealing via the government.
People need to think about what they are asking for. Obama is a politician! He has never worked a day in his life. To give politicians power over healthcare is dangerous, immoral, and illegal.
I do not agree with 100 percent of any health care proposals so far. But one thing I believe in. If my country can spend a Trillion $ in Iraq and Afghanestan to promote freedom and Democracy (In Afghanestan maybe protecting national security)and sacrifice 45,000 lives of brave Americans, we can certainly spend one Trillion $ over 10 years to protect the people of this country. Isn’t the health of people a national security issue?
Dear President Obama,
Please do not accept a bill that excludes a public option for health care. It is essential that we have a public option to keep the private insurance companies honest and competitive.
Melodie Miller
Voter
I have not yet read any one elses comments, so I am sorry if I am repeating anything.
I was wondering what about people like me? I am homeless, and I live at a Job Corps school where I am getting trained in a new career so when I leave I should hopefully have a home. I have never had a job that payed over 300 dollars every two weeks and have never been on my own.
What about people like me?
People who can’t even afford the insurance ?
If people cannot afford insurance, wouldn’t that mean that we cannot pay the fines either ?
I understand that health care is very important being that this is the field that I am going into, but saying that you must have something or else… it’s not right. especially when it comes down to something that you have to pay for.
These are tough times. In a time when people are trying to figure out what and how they feed their children every new day that comes to them, how do you expect people to be able to get insurance as well ?
As the president I feel that he should have more sense than what he is showing, and care more for the american people. maybe he could free health care instead of forcing people to pay for it and then saying if we don’t that we have to pay fines.
I just don’t see how this is right.
To me it’s unethical and unmoral
“One solution”
Scrap the whole thing and provide a simple nominal plan to the indigent who cannot afford insurance or do not qualify for medicaid, thereby, making insurance affordible to them as a group. Or simply provide a medicaid like plan to those who fall between the cracks so everyone is covered.
Under any circumstance, no one is denied care when they present to the emergency room) under EMTALA (a federal statute) with or without insurance so why all the nonsense and insane spending.
Well, I guess Pelosi, Reid and Obama . . . .
Be careful what you wish for.
Sarah P is spot on! She’s reasonable. The key to successful legislation is just that. Be reasonable
The dems actions unwise and unreasonable and, likely, unconstitutional. So it looks like this healthcare issue will just play out over time.
Conspiracy Theory
Have you ever wondered how the Baucus healthcare plan got to where it stands right now? This M.D., J.D. believes, and I agree it’s out there, Baucus conspired with others in his party. So hear me out.
Baucus commisurated with his gang of 6 to set out a road map for his healthcare vision . Yet, neither the Dems or the GOP supported his plan. Strange, don’t you think.? Good so far, right? No one support his plan and, yet, within 48 hours after he (Baucus) announced his “healthcare plan” the Dems embraced it with a multitude of amendments while repudiating each and every GOP amendment offered.
I believe Baucus never thought for a minute the GOP would join in his plan, nor did he care. His arrogance precedes him. The Baucus plan simply provided a platform for Baucus to advance the “debate” while playing by the Senate Finance Committee rules and moving the proposed healthcare plan along. That’s exactly what he did. It is ow going to committee. Pretty smooth, don’t you think? This writer thinks so.
Watch what happens now. It will go to committee, there will be some tweaking. The House will come around and take what they can get. After all the only thing missing is the public option and according to Obama, if you believe him, he will not sign a bill that contains a public option . . . . or will he?
Big picture: The present Baucus plan is a nightmare. But beware, the Baucus plan can get worse and I predict it will. We will, certainly, soon find out how horrific it can get.
As a UK citizen I have listened to the likes of Sarah Palin criticise our own NHS. She is, in my view, an immoral disgrace preaching to morons of self interest. Here, if you have a cold or cancer, a headache or aids, you will receive life saving treatment immediately without question or credit card and I would pay triple taxes to safeguard it. The healthcare system in the US is an international disgrace. A culture is defined by the treatment it affords its most vulnerable citizens, and all I hear in this debate is how much more it will cost ‘me’. Americans are better than this.
107 PEOPLE DIE WORLDWIDE EACH MINUTE.
THAT’S 153,000 DEATHS EVERY DAY.
HOW GOOD OF HEALTH CARE YOU HAVE WILL
MEAN NOTHING WHEN THAT DAY COMES FOR
YOU TO BE AMONG THAT 153,000.
ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN ON YOUR WAY TO
HEAVEN…OR ARE YOU STILL BOUND FOR HELL?
So, the Task Force put in place by our present administration suddenly changes its tune on mammograms and self examination…..saying that it results in too many unneccessary tests for false alarms…..what’s that you all were saying about how treatments and tests won’t be rationed?
I was trying to Sign Obama’s health plan letter online, but it seems impossible to do that without donating money… I’m not opposing it, I’d like to sign it, but I don’t want to donate as I believe Govt. has trillions of money and I have very little.
Does anyone think that she actually believes this rhetoric? We have already had “panels” deciding whether we get healthcare coverage…T-H-E I-N-S-U-R-A-N-C-E C-O-M-P-A-N-I-E-S! Some people want whats best for all of our society, not just for themselves. The fact that somebody makes more money than another does not necessarily mean that they work harder, just as it should not mean that certain people should get better healthcare just because they are members of government,unions or large corporations.