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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I would suggest that the demonizing and the spin is on the side that has been saying that the Obama and/or various Congressional plans: - are like a single payer European or socialist style program
- will ration health care and put personal health care decisions in the hands of government bureaucrats
- mandate government funded abortion on demand
- mandates euthanasia counseling for seniors
- will give the government total unfettered access to personal medical records |
What about the demonetization of health care insurance companies coming from the WH and members of Congress?
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Summed up in the most ignorant bullshit description I have heard to-date - Sarah Palin's and "evil death panels":
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. IMO, that is ignorant and offensive fear-mongering by any standard.
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It is interesting that in Obama's TH meeting today he addressed that issue twice. The first time in a dismissive tone, and then when a second question came up related to heath care panels for the purpose of addressing best practices, he did it in a much more serious manner but he still did not totally address the underlying concern. He went on about how the panel would make sure tests don't get duplicated, but he did not address treatment protocols - which is the issue. Palin may regret using the terms "death panel", but it did give Obama and others a tremendous opportunity to respond to the masses who are thinking that very thing. In my book it is always better to deal with real feeling in a direct and honest manner.