HURT: Sarah Palin knew a death panel when she saw one
Tuesday, November 5, 201
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Mama Grizzly warned us
this would happen.
Under Obamacare, the
sick and weak and old would stand before death panels of bureaucrats to be
granted life or death.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was
laughed out of town for making four years ago what we now know is a prescient
prediction. Perhaps she is one of the few who actually read the health care
bill before it passed.
“And who will suffer the
most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of
course,” she wrote on her Facebook page in
2009.
“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.”
President Obama and his
blind supporters who were busy not reading the bill howled in protest, calling Mrs. Palin an
irresponsible liar unworthy of the public political stage.
The media’s alleged
keeper of the truth PolitiFact declared her assertion the “Lie of the Year.”
FactCheck.org, another alleged “truth” panel, summarily dismissed the claim as
a “whopper.”
Now comes cancer
survivor Edie Littlefield
Sundby.
The ravages of Obamacare
have not even set in yet and already she has been given what quite possibly
will amount to a death sentence.
“For almost seven years
I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year
survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis,” she writes in an op-ed for The
Wall Street Journal.
“I am a determined
fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My
affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective
Dec. 31.”
Now, for most people,
knowing that a law you had engineered, rammed through Congress and crammed down
the gagging throats of Americans everywhere had just destroyed the strategy
meticulously laid out by doctors to keep a cancer patient alive long past her
natural death date might cause a twinge of guilt.
Some of us might fall to
our knees and beg for merciful forgiveness from God. Might even be convinced
that as well-intended as we were, we turned out to be completely wrong. Indeed,
a massive panel of bureaucrats cannot take over one-sixth of the nation’s
economy and properly dispense medical care.
But admitting error or
feeling guilt would require you to have an actual soul and be capable of shame
or self-analysis. Such small weaknesses do not hinder the folks in this White
House.
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