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Sebelius won’t waive regulation for girl with five weeks to live: ‘Someone lives and someone dies’
Washington Examiner ^ | June 4, 2013 | 1:07 pm | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 06/04/2013 11:16:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rebuffed an appeal from Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., on behalf of a girl who needs a lung transplant but can’t get one because of a federal regulation that prevents her from qualifying for a transplant. …

“I would suggest, sir, that, again, this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies,” Sebelius replied. “The medical evidence and the transplant doctors who are making the rule—and have had the rule in place since 2005 making a delineation between pediatric and adult lungs, because lungs are different than other organs—that it’s based on the survivability [chances].” …

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abortion; bhodhs; deathpanels; healthcare; kathleensebelius; loubarletta; lungtransplant; murnaghan; obamacare; pennsylvania; sarahmurnaghan; sebelius; zerocare
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1 posted on 06/04/2013 11:16:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Looks like Obama’s death panels have arrived.


2 posted on 06/04/2013 11:17:37 AM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Olog-hai
And these are the people who laughed at Palin’s suggestion about Death Panels.

Folks, this is just the beginning

3 posted on 06/04/2013 11:18:32 AM PDT by LMAO ("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)
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To: Olog-hai

She must have looked at their voter registration,
or the charities they donate to,

and determined that this girl would be “someone who dies”.


4 posted on 06/04/2013 11:19:04 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Olog-hai

If the girl’s doctors think she’s a good candidate for transplant,then get out of the way Kathleen.


5 posted on 06/04/2013 11:19:18 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Olog-hai

The witch doesn’t care.


6 posted on 06/04/2013 11:19:26 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

You need to check you spelling - that should be “b****”.


7 posted on 06/04/2013 11:23:42 AM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: TNoldman

I was thinking more along the lines of “Weapons-grade Douche Nozzle.”


8 posted on 06/04/2013 11:26:01 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Olog-hai

If her family put’s up a fight, will the DOJ or IRS pay them a visit? We live in a dangerous new world.


9 posted on 06/04/2013 11:28:03 AM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: rarestia

Sibileus is living up to all our expectations and is just getting warmed up.


10 posted on 06/04/2013 11:29:23 AM PDT by Kanzan
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To: Olog-hai

The bureaucrats are now in God’s stead deciding who lives and who dies. The American demographic voted for those currently in positions of authority and due to degeneracy will not object but like brute beasts accept their lot.


11 posted on 06/04/2013 11:29:37 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Olog-hai
what if the girl was her daughter?? Oh, aren't DC bureaucrats and politicians exempt from obozo care?
12 posted on 06/04/2013 11:29:37 AM PDT by drypowder
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You are right!!! What’s one more young child life lost, when Sebelius sanctions millions of murderous abortions from early to late term without any remorse at all. Obama and Sebelius could care less about this child. These disgusting people, from Obama on down are heartless killers!!! America, you are standing by an America many of us would have never dreamt we would ever see. Hilter is briskly alive and well In Obama and his lock-stepping, child murderers. They have no souls, these Democrats!!! Why should they, their beloved Obama is truly Hitler & Satan combined!!! God is weeping today....and so am I!!! Wait......the Obama/Sebelius death panels will be here soon!!!! If you are old, sickand require extensive medical care.....the Obama team will kill you!!!


13 posted on 06/04/2013 11:31:42 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

We certainly went from “no death panels” to “death panels someday” to “you’re going to die” in record time, didn’t we?


14 posted on 06/04/2013 11:33:32 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, but no...there’s no death panels, are there...


15 posted on 06/04/2013 11:34:05 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Olog-hai
She can’t qualify for an adult lung transplant until the age of 12, according to federal regulations, but Sebelius has the authority to waive that rule on her behalf.

WTF? Why does such a federal regulation exist?

16 posted on 06/04/2013 11:34:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Olog-hai

Unfortunately there are many more people in need of organs then donors. There are current rules around who gets in the front of the line. One can argue against the rule as written. But does one want a situation where a Congressman gets to reshuffle the line? If this girl gets to jump in line then someone who does not have the political pull will not get the organ and will die.


17 posted on 06/04/2013 11:37:02 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Olog-hai

The very young and the very old will be the first to be denied care under Obamacare. The Nazis had a term..”life without life” for those deemed too expensive for the state to care for and who then were euthanized. We can expect the same under Obamacare.


18 posted on 06/04/2013 11:37:48 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Olog-hai

Democrats are part and parcel to murder on a daily basis. Nazis of the first order. I wish on them the same fate as the Nazis.


19 posted on 06/04/2013 11:38:48 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Olog-hai

It is an honor to die for Dear Leader


20 posted on 06/04/2013 11:40:33 AM PDT by Lexington Green (First, they came for the Tea Party...)
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