Posted on 08/09/2013 10:16:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ObamaCare: Some Democrats are signing on to bills repealing the powers of the Independent Payment Advisory Board to effectively ration health care for seniors. So Sarah Palin was right about those death panels after all?
Palin was mocked by liberals when at a Tea Party rally in Reno, Nev., in late 2010, shortly before the GOP retook the House of Representatives, she told attendees: "Don't be thinking that we've got victory for America in the bag yet. ... We can't party like it's 1773."
Leftist know-it-alls insisted that 1776 was the correct year, when in fact Palin was right: The Boston Tea Party she referred to — a protest of British oppressive taxation — happened on Dec. 16, 1773.
Palin was right as well, and also took a lot of heat, when she referred to ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) as a death panel whose decisions would result in health care rationing.
(Under ObamaCare, IPAB's board of 15 presidentially appointed "experts" will be empowered to make arbitrary Medicare spending-cut decisions with virtually no congressional oversight or control.)
Dr. Donald Berwick, who headed the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, admitted as much....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
But they’ll never admit it.
Noam Chomsky: Palin Was Right About Obama
http://townhall.com/video/noam-chomsky-palin-was-right-about-obama
Palin’s not perfect, but she’s outside of the beltway, and thus more able to think clearly and see things for how they are. And she hits the target most of the time when she takes aim.
Only one human was perfect, and no, I don’t mean Mr. Obama.
bwahah They say when you get older you get smarter just think how long it took professor irwin corey to mine one nugget of ‘by god i do make sense’ out of the insufferable hot air he’s exuded low these many decades. Ladies an Genammens i give you.. Professor Johnny ComeoncenComelately..
I saw a T-Shirt the other day...
The Older I get,
The Better I was.
Palin was right on target, as usual. The panel would ration health care, refusing to pay for certain treatments that it considered too expensive. But I think there will have to be some limitations on health care treatments if we are going to control Medicare costs. If a new treatment costs 10,000% more and has essentially the same result, should we as taxpayers be on the hook for that? We don’t expect Social Security to pay for a billionaire’s lifestyle, why should we expect Medicare to pay for a billionaire’s medical treatment? If you want the very most expensive treatments, fine, just pay for it yourself. Don’t rely on our socialist Medicare system to pay for it.
This is like tweaking the blade of the guillotine.
There was never any doubt in my mind that Sarah was right.
Obamacare is without doubt the worst piece of Legislation ever passed. Not that the Democrats haven’t been trying to pass worse, they just haven’t got it done yet.
So, you're saying Obama isn't human?
There’s two angles on this. Both are correct.
First, IPAB is obviously, flagrantly unConstitutional. No Congress can, through legislation, limit or eliminate the powers delegated by the People to a future Congress. IPAB is a stalking horse for the communist takeover of America - once the principle that an act of legislation amends the Constitution is accepted, the sky’s the limit.
The second is that the People, acting through their representatives, have the right and the duty to govern expenditures from the Treasury. Without rationing of Federal payments for health care (payments for YOUR care with OPM), it is not possible for expenditures to be limited.
Is there medical insurance that older Americans can buy for themselves to cover these expensive treatments, or are they limited to Medicare?
ain’t she great....she is the only choice....
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WHEN has she ever been wrong on ANY important issue?
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She is PERFECT! Admit it.....too many people lately denying her perfection.
I can’t think of one time. They mock her, and she continues to prove them WRONG — to be the lying liars they are.
But not for Party people .... as in China, and the old USSR. They go to the head of the line -- every time.
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“But...Party people ...go to the head of the line — every time.”
But of course.
“Is there medical insurance that older Americans can buy for themselves to cover these expensive treatments, or are they limited to Medicare?”
Good question.
I’m quite sure the answer is no.
So, back to your orginal statement “If you want the very most expensive treatments, fine, just pay for it yourself.”
Younger people have the option of buying insurance against such expensive procedures. That is what free, responsible, rational, people do.
Older Americans have been locked in the Kings Tower, so to speak, and have no such options, no longer free, and chained to only those coverages offered by the King, no matter how desperately they want to buy the types of coverage they could when they were free of the chains.
What are their options, simply to die?
And now the emotional type Post Script:
Don’t forget, if you are lucky you too will become 65, and once you do, willingly or not, you are lead to that tower, and chained to that wall.
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