Sarah Palin: stopping Deathcare with just Facebook and editorials
Great Merciful Zeus, Palin’s smart. Once again, she underscores the fact that Dr. Utopia wants to give the federal government, controlled by liberal Democrats, control over life or death decisions.
Not doctors.
Not family members.
BUT DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON.
We hope every senior citizen reads Palin’s editorial and heeds her warning.
The Death Panels are real. They are very much part of Dr. Utopia’s Deathcare plan. They are the cause of much heartbreak and disaster in Great Britain, France, and Canada.
Death Panels have no business in this country. The federal government has no place in making end of life decisions for Americans.
Sarah Palin is, yet again, right on the money.
And perfectly timed to set the discussion before Dr. Utopia’s speech tomorrow…yet another ‘historic oration of historic importance” that will say little, clear up nothing, and ramble on for an hour as Dr. Utopia enjoys not only hearing his own voice, but making Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi pop up repeatedly like whack-a-moles behind him.
Ice cream-stealing, Botox-addicted, out-of-touch, crazy whack-a-moles.
UPDATE:
Here’s Senator DeMint on Greta talking about Palin’s editorial:
September 8, 2009 at 11:46 pm
[...] Sarah Palin is, yet again, right on the money. [...]
September 8, 2009 at 11:47 pm
That piece was nothing less than a thing of beauty. A master stroke in a game of chess. Sheer brilliance.
Bam-Bam wants desperately to regain control of the narrative. He wants to use his (dubious) charm to convince us all that his health care takeover is the best chance for this country.
But… no matter what he says… No matter how the Libs spin it… No matter how hard they try… The fact is that tomorrow’s speech from Zero will be nothing more than a REACTION to Sarah’s op-ed.
Obama’s been pwned. By an “unemployed” woman from Alaska.
Suck it, Libs.
September 8, 2009 at 11:48 pm
She sure is fabulous!
September 9, 2009 at 12:00 am
We.love.the.HillBuzz.Yes.We.Do.
September 9, 2009 at 12:01 am
Ditto.
September 9, 2009 at 12:15 am
Love the photo. Tentative title: The Margaret Thatcher stop a charging rhino look.
September 9, 2009 at 12:44 pm
This looks appropriate candidate:
If You Value Your Lives Be Somewhere Else.
September 9, 2009 at 12:17 am
Excellent! I love this lady and thanks to HB for posting it here!
September 9, 2009 at 3:22 am
Ugh….debating people with Palin Derangement Syndrome reminds me of all those debates about Clintons I’ve had over the years.
Everything they post is misrepresented or they blend facts from other events and tied it into another subject as proof.
Why oh why did I step into HuffPo today?
Of course the Obama/Rezko/no heat in the projects/big house bought with discount post never made it to the thread. But they can post lies and cuss words spelled out with spaces and that flies past those watchful eyes.
September 9, 2009 at 8:32 am
Thanks for the head’s up ! When I read this on Facebook last night, knew that today would be just miserable on the left side of the blog aisle :(
Thank goodness for hillbuzz :))
September 9, 2009 at 1:31 pm
You are welcome. Silly me was actually there prior to this coming out last night. So they were all worked up prior with some local AK blogger who doesn’t even realize all politicians are referred to by their last held title. They are mad she signed something with Gov.
They also keep insisting that Gov Palin has her own death panels. When in fact an assessment panel/death panel was set in place as a cost cutting measure by the previous Gov and legislature. So rather than realize she knows what she speaks of. They think she is a hypocrite with her own death panels and condemn her for speaking out against them.
They even are claiming that a Gov doesn’t need the legislature to overturn this law. What Gov writes laws? Then they point to oil windfall taxes that she got to the citizens for the record high oil prices as proof she gave away money that really needed to go to medicaid. While offering links that prove the program had enough money they just couldn’t find enough qualified staff and nurses to do the job when outsourcing it failed also.
Amazing offering links that contradict themselves….and then claim I have critical thinking problems.
I agree thank goodness for HillBuzz. I rarely go to HuffPo and proudly have no fans on my nic.
September 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Can we have a reverse Mariel Boatlift and send all those unhinged Democrats to Castro’s Cuba?
That’s what they seem to want to turn U.S. into.
September 9, 2009 at 3:48 pm
LOL…those clowns would probably be thrilled at the rustic beauty of neglected buildings and jerry-rigged Chevys.
It would be great to see the expats chanting their slogans with the rest of Cuba as their new leader requires their blind love and support just like Obama did. Props for propaganda…and they are already trained.
September 9, 2009 at 3:27 am
[...] Sarah Palin Does It Again — this time not on Facebook, but in the … [...]
September 9, 2009 at 5:46 am
Sarah is ASTONISHING, I am completely in love with her… but can only say that here. Defended her on the death panels recently to a so-called friend who was full of ridicule and contempt, until I calmly gave her the facts. Then she had to go suddenly.
September 9, 2009 at 5:53 am
keep saying it —- confound them with facts
September 9, 2009 at 5:49 am
Is this woman brilliant or what? That’s our Sarah.Go get ‘em Saracudda! She is never to be underestimated. I.Love.This.Woman.
September 9, 2009 at 5:52 am
double ditto
September 9, 2009 at 6:51 am
Make that a triple ditto. :-)
September 9, 2009 at 6:57 am
quadruple that!
September 9, 2009 at 7:48 am
Glad to see that Sarah is FINALLY putting her nose into the books and appears to be getting some informed advisors. It’s about time.
September 9, 2009 at 7:51 am
Go, Sarah! She strikes me as a person who will learn from her experiences while keeping her principles. Sarah Barracuda/Mama Grizzly, glad you’re one of us “ordinary Americans.”
September 9, 2009 at 7:55 am
Wait, wait. Private Citizen Palin is published in the Wall Street Journal?!?!? How did that happen???
Weren’t we all told, repeatedly (everyone from Peggy Noonan, to Tina Fey, to every Obama synchophant ‘pundit’) that Sarah isn’t terribly bright. Dim bulb; lightweight; doesn’t even ‘talk right.’ Why…she even went to a couple of (audible gasp) State Schools to get her degree. She’s NOT Ivy League; she had the ‘audacity’ to not abort her Down’s baby…what was McCain thinking?
Unbelievably brilliant how well Private Citizen Palin is expressing her thoughts and ideals in cyber world and (now) in print. On the WSJ no less. She is eating Barry’s lunch. And she is not costing the taxpayers of Alaska one more red cent in ginned up ethics violations (issued by true believers of Dr. Utopia)…and politically, she is masterfully campaigning without ever leaving her keyboard in Wasilla. Take that Beltway BSers!!!
Well done Sarah; and well done HillBuzz for posting this.
September 9, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Obama and his O-Boughts will one day rue the year they were mean and lying about Sarah Palin.
Sarah will never bow down and kiss the as…ER! ring of a sitting potentate of a corrupt Arab state.
September 9, 2009 at 8:20 am
Great article!!!! and my favorite picture :)
September 9, 2009 at 8:24 am
‘Caribou Barbie’ takes no prisoners. LOL…she’s in the WSJ…ha!!! Heads must be exploding in the West Wing.
I love the HillBuzz analogy…Hillary may be Coke; but Sarah is Pepsi. You can like them both!!!!
September 9, 2009 at 9:24 am
Wait, wait. Private Citizen Palin is published in the Wall Street Journal?!?!? How did that happen???
Weren't we all told, repeatedly (everyone from Peggy Noonan, to Tina Fey, to every Obama synchophant 'pundit') that Sarah isn't terribly bright. Dim bulb; lightweight; doesn't even 'talk right.' Why…she even went to a couple of (audible gasp) State Schools to get her degree. She's NOT Ivy League; she had the 'audacity' to not abort her Down's baby…what was McCain thinking?
Unbelievably brilliant how well Private Citizen Palin is expressing her thoughts and ideals in cyber world and (now) in print. On the WSJ no less. She is eating Barry's lunch. And she is not costing the taxpayers of Alaska one more red cent in ginned up ethics violations (issued by true believers of Dr. Utopia)…and politically, she is masterfully campaigning without ever leaving her keyboard in Wasilla. Take that Beltway BSers!!!
Well done Sarah; and well done HillBuzz for posting this….
September 9, 2009 at 9:31 am
It is so frustrating to talk to some of these Sarah-haters.
Some of them are actually saying there is no way she is smart enough to write this. That someone else is writing for her and she’s taking the credit.
Gah!!!!!! What do you do?
September 9, 2009 at 9:35 am
I know, it’s frustrating because you can’t bring up the Obama speechwriting team (which we pay for) without being called “racist” :)
September 9, 2009 at 11:01 am
Ask them if they believe that Oblahblah writes his own speeches and op-eds, and tell them that he learned his writing style from Bill Ayers. : )
September 9, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Oh sure he does – right in the middle of the aisle of Tele-prompters ‘R’ Us!
September 9, 2009 at 9:38 am
On Death Panels – I’m sick of being told that I’m being hysterical for believing something along those lines can happen. I have a chronic heart issue that I’ve had since I was 22. I’ve had a valve replacement and will may likely need another in my life. I have a mentally disabled older brother with health issues. The following statements below are by Dr. U’s top health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (the brother of the Ballerina) For U’s top advisor to make these types of statements, and then have U turn around and tell us he’s not going to pull the plug on grandma – rings so very false to me. The statements below go beyond Orwellian fiction.
2006 Hastings Center publication.
This civic republican or deliberative democratic conception of the good provides both procedural and substantive insights for developing a just alloca- tion of health care resources. Procedurally, it suggests the need for public forums to deliberate about which health services should be considered basic and should be socially guaranteed. Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future genera- tions, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. A less obvious example Is is guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason.
“Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years” (Lancet, Jan. 31).”
“Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others” (Ezekiel Emanuel, Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).”
September 9, 2009 at 9:40 am
Look at this nonsense, and the comments that follow:
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/09/media_challenge_will_they_take_the_palin_bait.php
Who is this Marc Ambinder anyway? Another Peggy Noonan/Kathleen Parker/Christopher Buckley idiotic type?
September 9, 2009 at 10:23 am
I remember when The Atlantic was a terrific magazine. But in the past few years it’s slipped to the point that I can’t help but wonder if Graydon Carter isn’t running it AND Vanity Fair.
September 9, 2009 at 9:49 am
Go, Sarah Go!!! Look out, Dr. Utopia. That photo says it all: “Don’t Tread On Me. Period.”
September 9, 2009 at 10:05 am
on ABC’s site for article entitled “We have the votes” linked from Drudge. I found this from a posters. Gad this “Timothy” whomever he is writes well. His post is lengthly but well worth the read:
Another Failed Presidency
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.
In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.
But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing bec ause fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What’s going on?
No narrative. Obama doesn’t have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn’t connect with us. He doesn’t have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don’t align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, Reagan.
But not this president. It’s not so much that he’s a phony, knows nothing about economics, is historically illiterate, and woefully small minded for the size of the task– all contributory of course. It’s that he’s not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn’t command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don’t add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don’t make sense and don’t correspond with our experience.
In the meantime, while we’ve been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he’s dissed just about every one of us–financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: “For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn’t give me enough time; if only I’d had a second term, I could have offended you too.”
Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state–staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there’s always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.
Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
September 9, 2009 at 10:51 am
Nice!
September 9, 2009 at 10:57 am
Maxine … thanks for posting. Right on the money!
September 9, 2009 at 11:02 am
It is hard to trust someone you don’t know, he has gone to great lengths to be sure we don’t know him, no school records, he sealed all the records he could, there hasn’t been a family member-distant relative or even a childhood friend that has come to the front and said boo about this guy. How could someone have absolutely no background, and how could you trust someone that doesn’t want to know you. And how could you trust someone with no track record to solve any “crisis”.
September 9, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Well said, good article.
I’ve been trying to condense my thoughts on Obama into a simple sound byte for the last month or so. This article helped. It comes down to this ……
Obama’s failure is due to his own arrogance.
September 9, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Ten – agree, he also lacks a sense of Nationalism. He hates Americans and what we stand for. He is so blinded by his belief that we are the enemy.
September 9, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Not a very good representative of the people, is he?
September 9, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Yesterday I was posting about Obama’s birth and all, then this above comment came, that I had to post. I will post my Best-Guess Obama Life Narrative. I believe it satisfies that “________’s Law” where the easiest most simplest solution is usually the correct one. As I have read many of the Birther Arguements. But interstingly enough, I also have a daughter that I gave up for adoption.
Maxine’s Best Guess Scenario:
Obama was born in Hawaii. Nothing else makes sense.
BUT, when he was 2 he was adopted. The original BC was sealed and set as off limits to anyone and everyone- No exceptions. As a “birth mother” I have no access to the “original B.C.” Nor does my daughter Jen. The ONLY copy Jen can get is the amended one specifying her adoptive parents as “parents”. They will never have a hospital copy with original inked baby foot print, that was on the one I signed in the hospital. That one was sealed. This is why Obama can not and will not produce his. It’s really because he “CAN’T”. Obama then went to Indonesia, blah blah, the story is benign at this point…Then when he was 17-18 years old and started applying for colleges- he used the fact of being a foreigner to his advantage. He attended Occidental College in Eagle Rock,CA. Where he was “still *going* by Barry Sotoero” It’s my contention he was “going by” that name because it is the name he applied to college with.(The LEGAL son of an Indonesian citizen) At Oxy he roomed with “2 foreign exchange students” dare I say “other” or “more”? At 19 his parents divorce and he is listed as “adult son” under “assets” in the divorce papers. However he is still enrolled in Oxy as Sotoreo the F.E.S. and transfers with those credentials to Colombia.
So you begin to see how if one, just one solid bit of information comes forth, school records, transfers, anything- it’s like the proverbial straw. Or the one string on a knit sweater that when pulled every thing else unravels. The paper trail is too intertwined and so NOTHING can be disclosed. Thus the total secrecy/silence on all things school related.
It explains why he didn’t register for the U.S. draft at 18. Though I am sure that even if he was full citizen living in America he would not have registered anyhow.
It explains how a very poor family could have a son attend the most expensive and elite schools in America.
Of course I understand the counter arguments to my hypothesis. “He was *born* a citizen, etc…” But the bottom line is court is always a toss up. And that is exactly why his lawyers have argued from the beginning on procedural grounds like, “Standing”. They have never addressed the facts from Obama’s life.
September 11, 2009 at 4:19 am
Oh thank you MAXINE!
You’re the only person I’ve seen who shares my view of Obama’s adopted connundrum.
I’m adopted, so I totally understand what happened to him. I don’t have access to my original BC either. I’ve even had a California judge turn my adopted father down to see the original adoption file. This is beyond annoying.
Your scenario is just PERFECTLY right. I’m sure of it. Because when you are adopted, your birth certificate becomes a fraud. It’s fiction. And Obama’s legal last name is Soetoro, and that’s what it would say on his birth certificate.
Anyway, thanks for sharing Maxine. I wish this scenario would get out there in the media more. It would make the birthers seem less crazy. I, too, think he was born in Hawaii. And I also think he forged his birth certificate so he wouldn’t have to reveal his dual citizenship problems.
September 11, 2009 at 11:26 am
I’ve always believed that he was born in Hawaii… there’s really no evidence that he wasn’t. No, I think that his BC doesn’t hide “where” he came from, but “who” he came from…
It’s been circulated around quite a bit that Ayers wrote his book. The only people who could say for sure are dead.
And, if his original BC doesn’t list Barack Sr. as his father? That makes his entire life story a fraud. And the only reason people were so enamored of him was because of that story.
September 12, 2009 at 3:40 am
Oh, and Jana, his original BC might say Obama, might not. But he would have to unseal it. And no doubt he COULD do that if he wanted to (he’s proven himself quite adept at unsealing sealed document – ask Jack Ryan).
So, maybe Obama Sr. never claimed him as a son? And maybe that’s what he doesn’t want to get out?
It does make sense that he doesn’t want it found out that he attended elite schools as an exchange student from Indonesia.
September 9, 2009 at 11:02 am
If Sarah was the one responding to Obama on TV, she would get more viwers than the false messiah. The GOP elite knows it but still many of them distrust Sarah and are pushing for zero chances Mitt(Joseph Smith)Romney.
The 2012 GOP primaries will be bloody but at the end Sarah will run away with it. After her historic win in Iowa, she can lose 6 or 7 more primaries.
September 9, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Yes, and in 2008 Hillary was the front runner, with no one else any where in sight. She will be the next president of the United States. If you think Sarah has it in the bag, you better get ready for a fight and be prepared to go to Iowa and throw in as $ as you can muster. Your dreams can be shattered in one night, so don’t let it happen. The fight for Iowa will be starting before we know it, so we must be overly prepared this time.
September 9, 2009 at 7:19 pm
That kinda didn’t come out right. I’m trying to say that we all thought we knew Hillary would have the nomination and then most likely win and be potus. Well that didn’t happen, and I really want everyone to know we need to do everything possible to ensure that Sarah is the nominee because she’s not even the front runner and she has plenty of people against her all across the spectrum.
September 9, 2009 at 11:09 am
This is a little OT as I didn’t see an Open Thread for today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/thank-you-glenn-beck_b_278839.html
Basically Arianna blames Beck for taking the gifted and talented Van Jones away from us. But he’ll be sorry because we will now this wonderful man free to work his magic on our country without the constraints of a political position….huh?
September 9, 2009 at 11:27 am
Sarah’s post’s another health care bomb–!
Not surprised by the “naysayer’s” of course “they don’t believe” our SarahCuda is writing her own face-book posting’s and that she can’t walk and chew-gum at the same time” BECAUSE THAT’S ALL THEY HAVE– it’s so sad that our Sarah is such a threat, that they can only come-up with “snarky school-yard comment’s” (TOTUS techs) better be spot-on for the BIG-SPEACH to-night because Obama’s head has been set on Sarah-cuda’s timer to explode….” he,he,and bwa,ha, haaaaaaaaaaaaa”"”"
Can we hear a “HILLBUZZER” on that timer too”"”"”"
September 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Here’s how someone on another blog put it: Sarah is handing Barry his nads…so if Sarah is that dumb..and she keeps handing it to him..what does it make their genius BO? Guess he’s not a genius after all..or guess she’s not that dumb…
Also, it bothers me that they keep making fun of her because she went to college for more than 4 years for her BA…some people actually have to work their way through school to pay for it..and sometimes that takes more than 4 years. We can’t all claim foreign status to get a free-ride through college..
September 9, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I agree Stacee. I was checking out the comments on HotAir last night and one of the posters made a comment along the lines of: at least I only took 4 years to get my degree. Well all I can say is la-di-da, aren’t you special. There are millions of us who aren’t able to finish in 4 years, we have things like families and jobs. The pure arrogance that the dems have become is sickening. Heck, I’m 52 and still trying to finish my Associates degree.
September 9, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Took me 4 and half years but that was with going two summers too…my husband took over 10 years to get his degree…he took off here and there to work and earn more money to get his degree. And as I’ve said to my friends…we have had nothing but a bunch of Ivey Leaguers running the country in gov’t and on Wall Street for how many years? And look at where we are today? I’d take someone with high ethics and good common sense over one of those jokers any day of the week!
September 9, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I’m so with you on that point.
I was a housewife and mother of 2 with barely a year of college under my belt, when I had to throw my now ex-husband out of our houme (long story). Anyway, I went back to school, 1 class per semester for 4 years, while working a fulltime job and being a Mom.
After 4 years, I finally took out enough student loans to go to college fulltime, finish my Bachelors, and then my Master’s (and got my CPA in the process). That took another 3 years.
All told – a total of 8 years to finish 6 years of higher ed.
Wow, to those Ivy-League types, I must be more dumb than Sarah! /sarc
But I’ll bet both Sarah and I have more common sense in our little fingers than any of them in their entire bodies.
Sarah, you go girl!
September 9, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Exactly …. my father, the most successful and brilliant businessman I know, took 9 years of night school to get his bachelor’s degree.
I wonder how Dr. Utopia paid for his college education.
September 9, 2009 at 4:04 pm
his tuition at columbia unv was paid for by a communist from nyc….that’s why his record is sealed….(his thesis,etc)
now his whole party is being run by communists
September 9, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I find a lot of similarities between Sarah and Margaret Thatcher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Smart women !
September 10, 2009 at 5:02 am
The difference is Sarah has a big heart. Thatcher lacked compassion for her own people, so much so the Queen is said to have pulled her up about it.
September 9, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I love this piece …. my favorite line, “And it’s true that insurance companies can be unaccountable and unresponsive institutions—much like the federal government.”
ZING! I. Love. This. Woman.
September 9, 2009 at 1:56 pm
The White House is going to attack her tonight…
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/White_House_talking_points_blast_Palin.html
Bwhahahahaha! Can anyone spell S U C K E R S!
September 9, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Let’s see, the White House is attacking a private citizen for her opinion ….. what a great use of their intellectual efforts. *LOL* Idiots.
September 9, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Thez has intellectual?
Thez has efforts?
Thez sure fooled me then.
September 9, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I hadn’t heard the idea of vouchers for Medicare but in regards to education it seems to be a great idea. I saw some piece by John Stossel that talked about how they use vouchers for public education in Belgium (I think). Anyway, the parents get $XXXX per kid and they get to shop schools. The schools have to compete to get that money and thus, they are almost all good and turning out higher test scores from their kids, etc.
If applied to medicare I assume it would work the same way…doctors would have to compete to get that money. And if you are a crappy doctor, no one will come to you. As it is now, there are a lot of crappy doctors that take medicare because they can’t get business any other way. There are a lot of GOOD doctors who DON’T take medicare because they know they are worth more and get paid for their expertise by individuals and insurance companies. Imagine how much better health care would be if we put competition back in the market place?!
September 9, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I’m in Canada and these delusions must really be stopped. There are no death panels here. Yes, if your condition is more serious, you’ll be bumped ahead of the line for certain procedures. But this is far from determining who dies. In fact, it only assures that anyone with immediate risk is treated right away. It’s just common human decency. Doctors don’t have to turn away people like in the US. And the long wait line thing is a myth. If you go to the emergency room with a ear ache, yes you’re gonna wait a while so that people with broken legs and chest pains can be attended.
Canada’s health care system is lightyears ahead of anything the US has. For one, we don’t have anyone that isn’t covered. Just that, all your arguments fall flat and are batshit delusional.
What is it with the propaganda about our Health Care system anyhow? Anything negative you hear about our system is a flat out lie. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Being able to just walk in anytime. Having access to local clinics, again just walk in. Access to specialists, again just make an appointment through your family or local doctor. On and on.
Americans really are stupid on this issue. You’re only hurting yourselves. The rest of the world knows how you’re all living in the dark ages with respect to health care.
Also, Canada pays 1.3 cents on the dollar for administration and bureaucracy. The US system spends over 30 cents on the dollar. The cost of covering each Canadian is $300 per person. In the US, it’s over $1000 and not everyone is covered.
Please look into the situation. Take this for example:
http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/
That’s the list of who we think are the greatest Canadians ever. No, it’s not Gretzky. He’s down at #10. Number 1 is Tommy Douglas, the guy that brought us Universal Health Care. If our system is so bad, then why do Canadians consider Tommy Douglas the greatest Canadian that ever lived? The guy is a national hero.
As a trivia bit, Tommy Douglas is Kiefer Sutherland’s grandfather.
I’m telling you right now that whoever can get Universal Health Care passed in the US will be your national hero within a short amount of time (assuming it’s done correctly, and not like Obama’s stupid plan). That hero should have been Hillary.
Good luck and for goodness’ sake, stop hurting yourselves and others with this nonsense.
September 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm
dream-ON”"”"” I’m tellin-YOU..! and you know what is said about Opinion’s right? Obviously your Doc. for-got to treat you for PDS too– and you have-it bad..” There is a cure, when you only think good thought’s about Sarah, So’ I’m guessing you don’t..” how’s that pain level working for ya now Mr.X””””’?
September 12, 2009 at 10:37 am
What?
September 9, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Mr. X, Your piece has so many “batshit delusional” points in it that I will only pick one for comment
No one is turned away from medical treatment in the U.S. No, NOT ONE.
If a person does not have a doctor they go to the emergency room for treatment for ANYTHING!
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, EMTALA) is a United States Act of Congress passed in 1986. It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.
As a result of the act, patients needing emergency treatment can be discharged only under their own informed consent or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.
In practical terms, EMTALA applies to virtually all hospitals in the U.S., with the exception of the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Indian Health Service hospitals, and Veterans Affairs hospitals. EMTALA’s provisions apply to all patients, and not just to Medicare patients.
September 9, 2009 at 4:23 pm
So please explain why your Supreme Court has decided your health care system violates the rights of your citizens? And why there are high priced private clinics if the public ones are so great? Paying twice for health care doesn’t sound like a great fix to me.
Also what is up with the lottery system in some parts of the country? I have never had to deal with a lottery to see a doctor.
With my past health care insurance every time I called….every single time no matter what the problem was…big or small. They gave me an appt that same day in two hours. They tried to set it up for one hour, but the first time I went I asked for two so they always offered two hour after that. My husband always got an appt in one hour.
How quick can you get here was the question. Since we live in a rural area now it was one hour. In brand new buildings with very little wait to see the doctor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As well as an in house pharmacy so no driving to another store to get those filled at a higher cost. They keep their drug prices low that way.
When my mom had breast cancer and it went beyond this same provider’s capabilities they sent her to Stanford University and paid for all the treatments she got there. She essentially donated herself to science to help those who would come behind her since she knew her disease was fatal.
Can Canada beat that?
Maybe you are also the victim of some propaganda.
September 9, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Mr. X, can you tell me then why my border city is packed tight with Canadians getting health care here? Why is the parking lot of the medical mall near my house jam-packed every day of the week with cars bearing Canadian license plates? Why, when I visit my friend at Roswell Park Cancer institute, is every other car in the ramp Canadian?
September 12, 2009 at 10:42 am
Why are you concerned about Canadians getting healthcare instead of US citizens? I’m telling you that all this propaganda makes people batshit crazy.
September 9, 2009 at 3:23 pm
LOL, now the white house is attacking a stay at home mom, private citizen Sarah Palin! Obsess much?
This requires a classic hillbuzz takedown of the whitehouse!
September 9, 2009 at 3:46 pm
The DNC is also responding to Sarah:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/Parsing_the_death_panels.html
I think it is hilarious. A Mrs. Palin, private citizen, has the white house and DNC up in arms.
September 9, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Also, Senior White House official makes sexist comment about Palin:
http://www.politico.com/politico44/
“Even Gov. Palin in the essay that, I don’t know, she wrote herself” – the official wryly continued, drawing laughter from reporters – “as she considered all of the complexities of this issue, acknowledged at the front end that there is a significant health care crisis. That alone is important
So, Obama writes all of his speeches, right?
September 9, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Private Citizen Palin is soooo under Dr. Utopia’s skin. Like the tick that causes Lyme Disease, Palin has made a bullseye.
September 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm
So the white house and dnc are denigrating Sarah Palin – it means only one thing – they are scared and scared big time because she has thrown another monkey wrench into their plans and more people are listening to her not the sainted telepromptered one.
Go Sarah Go
September 9, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Sarah just responded to the White House attacking her! MORE SMACK DOWN!
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=130980188434&ref=mf
September 9, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I was just going to post this. What a woman. I just love her.
September 9, 2009 at 5:19 pm
We have to stop the Susteen nomination..the guy is a whackjob nut!! Check him out..Beck’s show was about him. Wants to get rid of hunting…thinks people are no better than animals…thinks your dog should be able to get a lawyer if mistreated?? WTF? Things are so much worse and demented than any of us know…
September 10, 2009 at 12:33 am
If our dog can get a lawyer if she’s mistreated, does that mean I can charge her room & board?
September 12, 2009 at 3:44 am
LOL …. Ha!!!!
Did you see that video of Cass Sunstein claiming that an adult horse is more rational than a human baby!!!!
This guy has GOT to resign eventually. We can’t let someone like that writing our regs.
I read his book Nudge, and it came off as a kind man’s guide to meglomania.
September 9, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I agree Stacee. I received this today and we can all act on it.
TAKE ACTION!
The Senate has scheduled the floor confirmation vote for Cass Sunstein today or tomorrow!
STEP ONE:
Please call your Senators’ offices NOW and tell them you expect them to oppose and vote NO on Cass Sunstein to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs!
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
STEP TWO:
PLEASE FAX OR E-MAIL YOUR SENATORS TODAY. Here is a sample letter from Eagle Forum.
Dear Senator ____________,
Since 1990, Cass Sunstein has written 35 books which advocate changes to
U.S. law in the following issue areas:
• Expanding radical animal rights, specifically granting the right to
legally sue to animals and banning hunting.
• Rationing medical care for the elderly as a major component of health
care reform legislation.
• Increasing gun control legislation because he views “almost all gun
control legislation as constitutionally fine.”
• Advocating federal law to provide for ‘presumed consent’ rather than
‘explicit consent’ for human organ donation to science after death.
• Censoring freedom of speech, particularly on the internet to crack down
on “falsehoods” and “rumors.”
Cass Sunstein is yet another Obama appointee who will be in a powerful
position to make decisions about how Obama’s loosely-defined health care
policies are “regulated” from within the White House!
Sincerely,
September 9, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I posted Sarah WSJ Opinion on my Facebook page. One comment I received from a friend was “It’s such a shame there is so much misinformation out there making people scared of reform.”
I asked her to state specifically which misinformation she was referring to and provide information that proved it was, indeed, misinformation. So far I have no response.
I helped her out a little bit by providing proof through Dr. Emanuel’s writing that the term “Death Panel” was not misinformation when viewed in the context of his views on how to ration health care in order to save costs.
I decided that from now on, any time some speaks about misinformation, I’m going to do just that – ask them specifically what misinformation they refer to and to provide proof they know it is incorrect.
September 12, 2009 at 3:49 am
They can’t refute “death panels.” They keep saying Death Panels aren’t in the bill, or Obama’s lie that this bill won’t kill off Grandma.
First off, how stupid do they think we are? (Ok, don’t answer) If Obama wanted to follow Cass and Zeke in their plot to reduce Medicare spending, he honestly wouldn’t be so dumb as to write something into law called “death panels.”
No drama Obama is much more subtle, afterall. LOL
Of course they’re not spelling out in plain language what they want to do, but Sarah can CONNECT THE DOTS of D.C. talk. Denial of care is not euthanasia, but it is the equivalent of a “death panel.”
I can’t wait for this whole bill to blow up in Obama’s face.
September 9, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Sarah’s Facebook response to the White House’s response on her WSJ opinion.
‘m pleased that the White House is finally responding to Republican health care ideas instead of pretending they don’t exist.[1] But in doing so President Obama should follow his own sound advice and avoid making “wild misrepresentations”.[2] Medicare vouchers would give everyone on Medicare the chance to decide for themselves which health plan to use, rather than leave that decision to government bureaucrats. Such proposals are the kind of health care reform that Republicans stand for: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven.
The White House talking points leave the rest of my arguments unanswered. They don’t respond to the idea that all individuals should get the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; that we must reform our tort laws; and that we should allow Americans to buy insurance across state lines. The White House also fails to respond to the Nyce/Schieber study indicating that wages will fall if the government expands coverage without reducing health care inflation rates.
One last thing: after President Obama’s speech tonight, listen for which pundits use the words “false”, “scary”, and “risky” in describing the proposals I put forward. That’s how you’ll be able to tell who the White House counted as “allies” worthy of receiving its talking points.
-Sarah Palin
September 9, 2009 at 7:04 pm
“One last thing: after President Obama’s speech tonight, listen for which pundits use the words “false”, “scary”, and “risky” in describing the proposals I put forward. That’s how you’ll be able to tell who the White House counted as “allies” worthy of receiving its talking points. ”
_______________________________
I. LOVE. THIS. WOMAN!!!
September 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Palin/DeMint 2012?
September 9, 2009 at 6:05 pm
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4hsga_hillary-mocks-obama_news
September 9, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Looks like Obama has addressed Sarah on numerous occassions in his speech without saying her name. How insignificant she is huh?
And he just gave a nod to the Pubs regarding Tort Reform.
September 9, 2009 at 7:54 pm
But boy, I wonder what color the sky is in his world? He certainly does live in La la land!
September 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Sarah has the nomination in the bag. The only state primaries she “might” lose are Utah, Massachussets, Arkansas and Michigan. If she beats Romney in New Hamphire and Huckabee in Iowa is pretty much game over.
September 10, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Sarah’s the only one who really gets under Obama’s skin, bringing out the true nastiness in him – without even trying.
September 10, 2009 at 4:28 pm
From Conservatives4Palin: The Wall Street Journal figures on Sarah’s opinion piece –
Most viewed today:
1. Opinion: Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
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1. Opinion: Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
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7. Opinion: Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
Most emailed today:
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1. Opinion: Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
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6. Opinion: Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
Citizen leader.
September 11, 2009 at 12:50 pm
We think the reason the birth certificate isn’t being revealed is that it lists his father as Muslim…and it lists Dr. Utopia, the baby’s, religion as Muslim. That’s how it would have been filled out in 1961. His father did not identify as black…he identified as Muslim and Arab…and he said that repeatedly from what we have seen. He was only 1/4 black, the rest Arab/Muslim. THAT is what Dr. Utopia wants hidden…because his whole career was based on being perceived as black, when the birth certificate would contradict that.
September 12, 2009 at 3:55 am
Ah, now it all makes sense. Truly. Thanks! So, he’s really up a creek:
He can’t go with the adopted birth certificate because it would have him as Soetoro, Muslim/Indonesian.
And he can’t go with his original sealed BC because it would list him as Muslim / Arab.
In either case: he ain’t black.
Interesting!!!
p.s. I’ve always found it extremely confusing to tell the difference between race and ethnicity. I’ve read articles and STILL am not quite sure. Arab would be ethnicity? Race?
And what about black people from the Caribbean?
Sorry if I’m just missing something obvious.