Death panel?

[illusionofjoy]

I thought it was mostly the result of sexism that caused screaming hoards of so-called "progressives" to tear Sarah Palin apart (as opposed to merely attacking her policies). With this missive from Palin, I have to move her from the "I disagree with this person" file that she shared with John McCain to the "bugfuck insane" file where she can take up residence with Rick Santorum. The bugfuck insane money quote from Palin's Facebook page:

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.

Death panel? That's a new one, as I've heard the "rationed care" canard more times that I can recall. What Palin is complaining about are the same crimes which have been perpetrated by the private insurance sector for decades now. Insurance companies only make money when people stay sick, and Palin apparently is just dandy with this system.

Sadly, if she wants things to stay the same, she really has nothing to worry about from the Democrats. HR3200 is a thousand-page steaming pile of shit that, unlike HR676, does absolutely nothing in regards to reforming health care. It does, however, allow the collective we to get down on our knees and fellate the same insurance companies who have been ass-raping us into deeper sickness for decades now.

The America I know and love can do way better.

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[slinkybetty.livejournal.com]

Bugfuck Insane is putting it mildly. I used to admire her moxy (although I blatantly disagree with EVERYTHING this woman stands for), but now she's deeply embedded in the Rick "Fetus Fondler" Santorum category with no chance of returning. Why Republicans are still downing the Palin Kool-Aide I will never know...

The healthcare system in the US is beyond screwed up. It always has been, always will be.

Death Panel... sounds like a band name.

[illusion-of-joy.livejournal.com]

Death Panel would make an awesome band name.

Honestly, I think the far right is downing the Palin Kool-Aide for the same reason desperate progressives downed (and some continue to down) the Obama Kool-Aide: these are people who lack the will or initiative to form an independent thought and who are desperate for something to believe in.