Deconstructing Sarah Palin's Health Care Statement

The Provocateur ^ | 08/08/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

Former Governor Palin weighed into the health care debate with a controversial Facebook statement. Here's the part that's causing the most controversy.

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.

[darkwing104]

Health services should not be guaranteed to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia

This is dangerous.

[jessduntno]

"But that isn't they way I heard it..."

[ntmxx]

Well said; I guess the truth does hurt if you are a modern liberal/progressive/government apologist or the exempt.

[FreeSouthernAmerican]

“If you want to criticize Sarah Palin for her provocative language, scare tactics, and lack of statesmanship, I would agree. That said, on substance, Sarah Palin is absolutely correct.”

What is it with people nowadays thinking that even with something so important you must retain a balance of civility and political correctness? That little paragraph at the end of the blog irritates the snot out of me. The guy/girl/whoever admits that this could possibly cause “extermination” of the “unwanteds,” yet deems Palin to be not so graceful? This is a thing that one cannot be graceful about.

[PowerPro]

Palin has a new FB post...

Some Useful Commentary on the Health Care Debate
Today at 5:50pm

“As Americans spend the next few weeks discussing health care reform, I thought it might be helpful to share some articles (and one panel discussion video) that I’ve found especially insightful.”

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=114345578434&ref=mf

[dirtboy]

Charles Johnson, of LGF, also criticized Palin. Now, Palin's statement was far too provocative.

Kiss my pasty rump. CJ yesterday said that the protestors who got beaten up by union goons had it coming.

Once again, you are joining CJ in bashing conservative who in your genteel opinion go too far. That's stupid. Have you EVER seen liberals use a law in the manner intended? They will push those sections to the breaking point, to where they will be used in a manner that Palin claims.

You and CJ need to point your cannons leftward instead of rightward. THAT is where the enemy is. Instead, you are too concerned about appearing rational to an enemy that could care less about such.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Obama lovers can criticize Sarah Palin from now to eternity, but she didn't go FAR ENOUGH in describing the evil that this legislation is. By extension, anyone promoting this turd of a bill is either evil or a moron, I leave it to each to decide which.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Ping

[Spartan79]

The post claims that Palin should have framed her comments in a much more “statesperson like” manner, then goes on to point out that they were exactly correct.

Maybe Palin should use the same “statesperson like” manner that the proponents of ObamaCare have been using. However, I suspect that she is too much of a statesperson, and too much of a lady, to do so.

[Will88]

So, with 50 million more patients,less doctors, and the tools necessary to ration, that's exactly what the government will do.

I agree with Sarah Palin and I agree with this article, but this is one falsehood we who oppose this socialized medicine should stop repeating. There cannot possible be 50 million more patients to care for. And that definitely contradicts the many who say that no one is denied care. It can't be both.

Those fifty million are going to emergency rooms, receiving care they never pay for (25% bad debts in medical care), and some uninsured receiving care they do pay for.

It's true there will be rationing and less care, but there will not be 50 million more patients, and people need to stop saying that.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Her statement was not that of a politician, but as a mother, a daughter, who fears what might happen to her son and to her parents if this passes. It was spot on and PERFECTLY written.

[skimask]

The leftists fear Sarah. They know what will happen once she becomes President. She has them tearing out large mounts of hair from their heads, they can’t sleep at night for fear of Sarah. Treat her as a nobody and a has been at your own peril democrats. She has blown the “Feminists must have hairy armpits and legs, not wear make up, and hate men” meme right out of the water. Any way, conservative ladies are far better looking than the democrat harpies. She is the future of our country not this racist affirmative action, hot tempered narcissist who has three years left. He will go down harder then Jimmy and will scream racial comments as he is drug out in January 2013.

[Dr. Sivana]

Her statement was not that of a politician, but as a mother, a daughter, who fears what might happen to her son and to her parents if this passes. It was spot on and PERFECTLY written.

Exactly. If Bill Clinton said, "I want Chelsea to grow up into a world that ..." or "My grandchildren would have to pay for that act some day ..." (when she was a juvenile) it would not (by itself) disqualify them from asking that she be kept out of the attacks.

[Turret Gunner A20]

…but pictures of government bureaucrats forcing euthanasia upon seniors -- and, now, children with Down syndrome -- because they're not productive members of society are not part of any reasonable debate on the facts of the matter >

But, Mr. Tappen, she drew no such picture about euthanasia. If you are going to criticize someone’s statement, it might be a good idea to quote that statement, or at lest characterize it, accurately. In this case perhaps you should look up the definition of ‘euthanasia” about which she said nothing.