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Democrats Crank Up Death Panel Talk Following Obama Win
Market Daily News ^ | January 1, 2013 | Kurt Nimmo

Posted on 01/26/2013 1:23:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Now that Obama has secured another four years in the White House, it is time for the administration to crank out more Obamacare propaganda, specifically arguments about the cost ineffectiveness of keeping old people alive.

Enter the internet’s liberal bellwether, Salon.com. Earlier today, the website posted an article by Matthew Yglesias, a blogger and Democrat operative who spent time at the Soros’ project, ThinkProgress.

According to Yglesias, old folks are “the key issue in the federal budget” and their welfare accounts “for the remarkable lack of apparent cost effectiveness of the American health care system.”

“When the patient is already over 80, the simple fact of the matter is that no amount of treatment is going to work miracles in terms of life expectancy or quality of life,” he writes.

Yglesias offers a chart to make his point.

Indeed, the chart reaches its steepest incline between the ages of 80 and 90. For the actuarial minded, however, the problem begins with those who have crossed the 60-year-old threshold.

In other words, following Mr. Yglesias logic, if the government is going to address the “remarkable lack of apparent cost effectiveness of the American health care system,” steps need to be taken to reduce cost at the lower end of the curve.

We can now expect more and more Democrats to talk about what was heretofore unmentionable — death panels. Yglesias, in fact, uses the phrase in his headline...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2008electionbias; abortion; bho44; bhohealthcare; dealthpanelgraph; deathpanels; demagogicparty; elderly; euthanasia; healthcaregraph; obama; obamacare; obamaliedgrandmadied; obamalies; palin; sarahpalinwasright; seniors; zerocare
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She was right!
1 posted on 01/26/2013 1:23:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yglesias: “Kill your parents, and give my illegal friends the money!”


2 posted on 01/26/2013 1:28:36 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they have no problem killing babies, they have no problem killing the elderly. That is the quickest way for them to solve their entitlement problem.


3 posted on 01/26/2013 1:29:14 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Salon.com

Seriously? Who cares what the nut jobs over there say/think/post?

4 posted on 01/26/2013 1:34:45 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dingbat is loose with the technical. Steepest incline looks between 68-78.


5 posted on 01/26/2013 1:35:30 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My buddy is in his 80s and just got a spinal cord fix. He is shooting 80s at golf and enjoying life.

Liberals are murderers.


6 posted on 01/26/2013 1:39:41 PM PST by y6162
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She usually is...

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7 posted on 01/26/2013 1:41:00 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Freepers, your Contributions make every difference!
Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!

8 posted on 01/26/2013 1:41:06 PM PST by RedMDer (HEY LIBS! GUN FREE ZONE T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE NOW. I DARE YA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ok, let’s start with the senile b@stards in Congress.


9 posted on 01/26/2013 1:41:39 PM PST by patriotsblood
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The author, Yglesias, is a very old 31-32 year old. He’s gonna regret the sh-t out of his writings in about 15 years. He’ll be an old fart by 50. Death panelled by 60.


10 posted on 01/26/2013 1:43:18 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're ready to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country.” Jerry Rubin

And now his buddies from the 60s are in charge...

11 posted on 01/26/2013 1:43:34 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Cicero

Come on man, not everyone with a spanish surname is an illegal alien. It’s crap like this that has us painted as racist idiots and we need to knock it off. Going after the man’s bullshit politics is one thing, but assuming he is an illegal is over the top.


12 posted on 01/26/2013 1:43:34 PM PST by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
THE IMPOSITION OF OBAMACARE/ROMNEYCARE
AND DEATH PANELS BY MYTH ROMNEY,
THE “SWIMMER” AND THEIR TRAINED FELON.


13 posted on 01/26/2013 1:43:57 PM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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When my mother was dying at age 90....they did every test there was...twisting and turning her poor litle body evry which way instead of just letting her rest. I can still hear her moans during these unnecessary tests.

My sister had the power to say "no more tests".

This is where your old people monies go....not to "care"...but to milk the system.

14 posted on 01/26/2013 1:44:43 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually it looks like the steepest incline is from 65 to 80.


15 posted on 01/26/2013 1:45:39 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: patriotsblood

Let’s start with George Soros. He’s over 80. Time for him to go.


16 posted on 01/26/2013 1:46:20 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: justa-hairyape

Can’t wait for the idiot liberals to fall victim to their own carefully laid plans. He’ll awaits another idiot.


17 posted on 01/26/2013 1:47:18 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: justa-hairyape

Can’t wait for the idiot liberals to fall victim to their own carefully laid plans. Hell awaits another idiot.


18 posted on 01/26/2013 1:47:42 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is the same party that holds Margret Sanger up as a heroine.


19 posted on 01/26/2013 1:47:58 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A progressive new holiday tradition is trying to be born.
Santa comes on the 25th and the grim reaper on the 31st.


20 posted on 01/26/2013 1:48:58 PM PST by clearcarbon
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