4 Year Anniversary: Death Panels

Conservatives4Palin ^ | August 07 2013 | Michelle McCormick

[Bratch]

August 7, 2013, marks the fourth anniversary of the post that made Americans aware of the insidiousness baked into the pie of awfulness known as Obamacare. It also marks the moment when supporters of, and lobbyists for, Obamacare completely lost their merde.  Allow me to present, in pictorial form, the reaction evolution to death panels:

2009

August 7, 2009: Statement on the Current Health Care Debate

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.

At first the Left was all:

And Republicans were all:

Everyone else (soon to be called ‘Tea Party’) reacted like this:

Once they realized what had happened, the Left went all:

LIE OF THE YEAR: "Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest: "Death panels."

Lies were told in 2009, but they didn’t come from Gov. Sarah Palin:

At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Aug. 11, 2009, President Barack Obama repeated a line he’s used many times in describing his health care proposal: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."

President Obama stated in 2009, “Every credible person who has looked into it has said there are no so-called death panels – an offensive notion to me and to the American people. These are phony claims meant to divide us.”

Meanwhile, Republicans were still all:

Gail Wilensky, a health adviser to President George H.W. Bush, said the charge was untrue and upsetting. "I think it is really unfortunate that this has been raised and received so much attention because there are serious issues to debate in health care reform," she said at a forum on Sept. 3.

Everyone else (Tea Party) reacted like this:

 

2013

The Left finally went all:

“We won’t be able to pay for the kind of government the society will want without some increase in taxes … on the middle class, maybe a value added tax.”

“And we’re also going to have to make decisions about health care, doc pay for health care that has no demonstrated medical benefits. So the snarky version, which I shouldn’t even say because it will get me in trouble, is death panels and sales taxes is how we do this.”

–Paul Krugman

And that maybe the IPAB won’t be the cat’s pajamas after all:

"By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them."

–Howard Dean

And while Republicans acted like they invented the phrase:  "Death Panels."

Tea Partiers were all:

False: "The phrase "death panels" appears to be original to Palin. A search of news databases showed no use prior to her Facebook posting."

And throughout it all Governor Sarah Palin has been:

Credit to Gov. Sarah Palin–for putting into words what many sensed would be the end result of Obamacare for our elderly and handicapped–and having the courage to say it when others were too afraid to call an evil by its name.

#BOOM

[Bratch]

[kempster]

Soon the elderly will learn the basic difference between palliative care and curative care. These will become common words in the discussion of health care.

[The Great RJ]

Where I see the effects of these death panels to be most pronounced will be in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Imagine the horror when the parents of a high risk baby are told there will be no treatment because their child is deemed not worthy of an expensive NICU and will soon die as a result. I could see NICUs closing because government policies will not permit them to provide care to many babies who need it. Of course the elites of government will have their own system where no one will be denied care.

[Tom D.]

The parents of these kids are largely responsible for electing Obama and the heavily Democrat Congress that passed this mess. I have considerable sympathy for the kids, but I have little compassion for the parents who put their kids in this position.

Having said that, I have three kids of childbearing age who did not vote either for Obama or for any Democrat in 2008, 2010 or 2012. I have considerable sympathy for those like them.

By the way, I have a couple of pet peeves surrounding the word “Anniversary” First the term “4 Year Anniversary” is redundant. Anniversary comes from the same source as Annual. By its very nature any Anniversary marks the passing of years. It seems that the better phrasing is 4th Anniversary.

Fortunately my second pet peeve concerning that word does not seem to me to be much used except by teenaged girls when referring to the length of time those in my generation referred to them as “going steady” with a particular boy or by those who might be slightly older as getting “Pinned” by a fraternity guy. Since I am nearly 60 years old, I don’t hear it much, but in my salad days it grated on my nerves to hear some teeny bopper comment that it was the 6 week anniversary of Joe College giving her his fraternity pin or her younger sister saying that it was the 4 month anniversary of going steady with her then high school sweetheart. Perhaps I am overly critical of that sort of thing, but it bothered me 45 years ago and it bothers me today.

Now a grouchy old guy will sign off.

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[nascarnation]

I’ve never seen any mention in the MSM about Obamacare being the secret answer to the Soc Sec and Medicare funding deficits.

Each year sliced off the life expectancy is a huge improvement.

When the grandkids whine about Grandma getting off’d, the fedgov will had out some student loan forgiveness chits.