Palin warns of 'disturbing' health care rationing

[sabra]

Source: CNN

(CNN) – Sarah Palin is keeping up her full court press against President Obama's health care plan, penning yet another Facebook message that accuses the administration of misleading the public about its true goals.

In a lengthy, annotated post, the former Alaska governor claims victory for the Senate Finance Committee's decision to remove a provision creating end-of-life consultations from its draft legislation. Palin wrote last week that such a measure would establish "death panels" to evaluate elderly and infirm members of society — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked and even criticized by fellow Republicans.

"It's gratifying that the voice of the people is getting through to Congress," Palin wrote late Thursday. "However, that provision was not the only disturbing detail in this legislation; it was just one of the more obvious ones."

She writes that the plan making its way through Congress will "inevitably" lead to health care rationing. Pointing to an essay co-written earlier this year by White House health care adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel — the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel — Palin claims the president wants to enact a rationing system that would "refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential."


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The Democratic National Committee responded to Palin's most recent treatise with a point-by-point rebuttal of what they called her "absurd" claims that the government wants to create "death panels" and ration care for the elderly.

"It's always hard to walk away from the table when you're losing," said DNC spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine. "So, instead, Sarah Palin is tripling down on what independent organizations have ruled is without question a losing hand."

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/14/palin-warns-of-disturbing-health-care-rationing/

[Mz Pip]

1. Follow your own advice Sarah.

Stop making stuff up.

[joeybee12]

2. In other news, Health Care warns of a Disturbing Sarah Palin...n/t

[tj2001]

3. Vagisil is indicated

[City Lights]

4. Who?

Your fifteen minutes are up, Sarah. You have NO credibility.

[husky92]

8. Palin Mania

Enough with this Sarah Palin crap. She is an IDIOT and I don't understand why the media keeps giving her opportunities to make a complete fool out of herself. In fact, how dumb can she be when she keeps opening her yap and saying stupid things. I know it gives ammunition to her detractors, but enough already. As one person said, her 15 minutes of fame long ago expired. As we all know there's a faction of this country who think she can do no wrong, but they are as dumb as she is! She craves the attention and the dumb-ass media continues to give it to her.

[KakistocracyHater]

23. yeah, Gov Arnie just stopped some health care for the elderly-where's her

outrage? I can't find that story now. He took away dental coverage from SSI people. Where is the outrage?

"California board votes to drop healthcare coverage for 60,000 children"
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-california-budget14-2009aug14,0,6580131.story
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/13/Healthy-Families-to-cut-kids/

..."On Wednesday, community health clinics and other groups filed a lawsuit alleging that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) acted illegally when he used line-item vetoes to deepen funding cuts for health and social programs by an additional $489 million, the Los Angeles Daily Journal reports.

The suit, filed with the First District Court of Appeals, aims to block more than $200 million of the governor's line-item cuts.

When the governor signed a budget revision package late last month, his vetoes eliminated an extra:

* $86 million from community health clinics;
* $60 million from Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program; and
* $50 million from Healthy Families, California's Children's Health Insurance Program."...
http://www.californiahealthline.org/Articles/2009/8/13/Clinics-Challenge-Governors-LineItem-Vetoes-to-Health-Care.aspx
Found it.

[LoKnLoD]

27. How far she has fallen....

From heartbeat away from the presidency....to "Queen of Facebook" .....lololol :rofl:

[Deja Q]

5. The spotlight on that cuckoo really needs to be changed...

[abelenkpe2]

6. Behind the curve

as always Ms. Palin. That particular bit of baloney has already been debunked as well.

Good grief she is an idiot. A national embarrassment.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Are you talking about this kind of thing, Sarah?

http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html

The blood of 254 seniors is on your hands.

[CreekDog]

9. Someone's withholding her meds

:shrug:

[safeinOhio]

10. Now Sarah is a Marxist?

"allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential."

[Doctor_J]

11. We already ration it you stupid bitch

that's why 46 million people don't have any.

God, how stupid that woman is.

[Serge A Storms]

18. I wonder who is paying her for the facebook thing ?

she shouldn't be ignored , she has great appeal to those on the back half of the bell curve

unfortunately they do vote

[Gormy Cuss]

45. Exactly. We now know what her new job is. The only questions are who's paying her

and how much.

[tomm2thumbs]

12. Did the failed beauty queen say something again? I wasn't paying attention. /nt

[No Elephants]

26. You mean Miss Wassila 1984? The nation's capitol of meth, open gravel pits and dead lakes?

[XemaSab]

13. Nothing wrong with Palin

that a straight jacket and some thorazine wouldn't fix.

[caseymoz]

14. I wonder who is paying her to say these things?

I'm beginning to think she resigned to take a position as a paid guerrilla propagandist for the medical industry, and is probably making much more money doing it. It would be a shrewd move by the medical industry.

Not that she's lying, I think she must believe about half of it and doesn't find the other half to be that unbelievable.

This is a step up, though, from everybody harping on her personal life.

[louis-t]

15. "He's gunna, he's gunna, he's gunna"

I am so sick of this. Health care is rationed now. To those who can afford to pay exorbitant prices. Shut up, Sarah. Asshole.

[damntexdem]

16. Well, we already knew that she was disturbed.

;-)

[frylock]

17. i wonder who the poor intern is at cnn that has to sit on her facebook site and hit refresh all day?

memo to CNN; you're getting your news items from FUCKING Facebook!! Force her to make an official public statement for fucks sake!

[No Elephants]

24. Great point. Can you imagine them doing stories on what Gore puts on face book?

And Gore was a Presidential candidate. Jeebus, they barely covered his Nobel Prize and Oscar.

(Lieberman would be the Palin counterpart, but he's practically a Republican. Edwards would have been the other, but media would probably cover his face book, given he's involved in the kind of scandal that our media now apparently sees as its real job in this nation's affairs (no pun intended).

[tinrobot]

19. It's already rationed - the insurance companies see to that.

[No Elephants]

25. Great point.

[Libertas1776]

20. When is she

going to be indicted?

[vinylsolution]

21. Palin obviously didn't write any of this stuff....

.... She can barely string a coherent sentence together.

The invisible hand of Karl Rove, again.

[McCamy Taylor]

22. WTF? Only the rich get care now. How is that not "rationing"?

If there ever were to be "Death Panels" the VIPs who run the GOP would get the Cadillac care, and we all know it.

Maybe what bothers them is that the functional "Death Panels" they have already created in places like Texas, where a hospital can pull the plug when you run out insurance, might just be abolished and health care would be dispensed where it can do some good, not where it can make someone some money.

[No Elephants]

28. It would indeed be disturbing if rationing deprived Sarah of the help she so obviously needs.

[aquart]

29. Like, say, NOW?

When only the rich can get real care in this country?

[SemperEadem]

30. that fuckin' idiot can't even string a coherent sentence together

miss "flunked out of 6 community colleges" needs to go home and raise her children and stay out of the public eye.

[izquierdista]

31. Palin.......disturbing.......

Yes.

[cap]

32. could we just jump on her facebook and flood this nonsense

eom

[onehandle]

33. .

.

[HughBeaumont]

34. . . . . sigh . . . .

ONCE AGAIN, NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU THINK, DICKFACE!!!!

This woman just will not shut the fuck UP. It's amazing. Is she having a mouth-shitting contest with Michelle Bachmann or something?

[Blue_Tires]

47. +1

[mitchum]

35. Who built your house, you grifting bitch?

[TankLV]

36. You mean like the INSURANCE COMPANIES DO NOW?!!!

get back to us you fucking idiot, palin, when you know what the FUCK you're talking about...

[JCMach1]

41. Exactly...

[madokie]

37. She's trolling for money from the healthcare industry

thats what sarah is doing.

[Odin2005]

38. It's already rationed you airhead!

:grr:

[Demeter]

39. I've Always Found Ex-Gov. Palin Sufficiently Disturbing For All Purposes

[Arkana]

40. Dear Sarah,

Shut the fuck up and go read about domestic policy. Come back in a few years and we'll see how you're doing, but if you open your stupid fucking cakehole again without knowing all the facts I'm gonna see if I can fit my foot in it.

[laughingliberal]

42. She's so confused

Her statement about "...a rationing system that would 'refuse to allocate medical services to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential," is the system we have now with the private insurance companies.

I know the current proposals don't include plans for a 'death panel,' but could we make an exception for Sarah?

[tinrobot]

43. I wonder how much she's getting paid to say that,,,

She's blatantly whoring herself out to the highest bidder, something she couldn't so openly as Governor.

[ProudDad]

44. Lack of health care "rationing" about 44 years ago

leads to disturbing birth of Sarah (clueless) Palin...

Alas...

[DebbieCDC]

46. Will someone please tell me when a teenage meetup site

became the vehicle for serious policy discussion??????

Jeebus, will the friggin MSM STOP giving this goofy dingbat and her teenage web pals a forum? Why is this stupid excuse for a human continually quoted on her facebook pronouncements? The state of this country has absolutely fallen to an all-time low if THIS is where policy is made.