Sarah Palin returns to 'death panels'

Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin is doubling down on her warning about so-called “death panels” that may emerge from the heath care bill the House passed Saturday night.

“We had been told there were no ‘death panels’ in the bill,” Palin wrote in a note on her Facebook page soon after the bill's passage. “But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.”

The former Alaska governor first raised the prospect of bureaucratic panels making end-of-life care decisions for the elderly in August, a claim which was widely shot down by the White House and Democrats in Congress.

In an October post critiquing Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) health care bill, Palin made no mention of “death panels.”

Democratic leaders have also denied that the bill the House passed by a 220-215 vote provides health care coverage to illegal aliens, but following her “death panels” claim, the former governor urged supporters to “look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too.”

I’ve got another catchy term for some of the rationing in the new house bill. The bill provides for a “medical home” primary care provider that decides whether or not Medicare recipients can get a diagnostic procedure or see a specialist.
Let’s call the “medical homes” medical mausoleums. The Obambot doctors that perform the rationing by proxy can be called Obama homeboys or funeral home providers (no offense to undertakers).
Any other names?

I'm not so sure that Michelle Bachmann is "frightened either by 'media critics' or by her voters. As a member of the House from Minnesota, she has to face her voters every two years, yet she sent out the clarion call to "meet her in DC" to tell those in the Government who really is the boss in the U.S.

Only when tens of thousands of people, cameas and microphones, did the House "leaders" show up to "support the people!!!"

Worthless Republican "leaders" hiding behind Michelle's skirt.

In August, The Baltimore Sun reported Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, stated "that the provision was dropped because it wasn't just about providing information at the end of life, but was "likely to lead to the rationing of care for everyone."

OK if there never was one, how can you take out "the provision" that never was?

It was just passed over as the doctor's responsibly/ panel, without the government's name on it.

A physician responded to the Baltimore Sun article in this way:

"What do you say "yes" to and what deserves a"no"? Would a blanket request for nothing curtail your life and leave you dying of starvation, or a raging infection? When are you really too far gone? Can you trust a doctor to make these decisions? And remember nowadays, your trusted doctor with whom you may have discussed these issues may not even be the one to see you in the hospital. Instead in most cases you will be admitted and treated by an unfamiliar "hospitalist" in hospitals where living wills may be misread or misinterpreted and end of life care meted out, not exactly the way a you intended. Besides the government cannot pretend that it is not concerned about the endless dollars cast at end of life care and the futility of such extravagant spending. But when the government incentives discussions about this matter by suddenly deciding to pay doctors for it and when it does so even as it indulges in a huge overhaul of the system; the combination makes it incendiary. It brings to the consciousness of patients all the atavistic fears deep inside them and when they imagine the grotesque and the worst in human nature culminating at their own bedsides as they lie dying...."

We are living longer and that becomes a dilemma for Socialized Health Care by government. How can they afford to keep you around "too long"; yet promise to promote your well being through breakthrough medical advancements/technology [like getting flu shots to you on time] which serves to do just that.

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