Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care - WSJ.com
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
Palin has written a very good oped here and yes EZ, she even posted it on Facebook too.
Much has been said about her but you have to giver her credit for trying to force the dems into a debate. A debate that they clearly do not want to have.
Even with the house, senate, presidency and the media, democrats are afraid of debating their "obamacare" plan. The less light, the better. This is why people loke Palin are attacked with such vigor everytime they attempt to excercise their rights to debate and discuss something that will affect all of us.
Good job Sarah.
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans "talk with one another, and not over one another" as our health-care debate moves forward.
I couldn't agree more. Let's engage the other side's arguments, and let's allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats' health-care proposals should become governing law.
Some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that "no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds." Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.
We also know that our current health-care system too often burdens individuals and businessesparticularly small businesseswith crippling expenses. And we know that allowing government health-care spending to continue at current rates will only add to our ever-expanding deficit.
How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree.
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Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He's asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Councilan unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of "normal political channels," should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives . . . ."
Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care bydare I say itdeath panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans. Working through "normal political channels," they made themselves heard, and as a result Congress will likely reject a wrong-headed proposal to authorize end-of-life counseling in this cost-cutting context.
Palin has written a very good oped here and yes EZ, she even posted it on Facebook too.
Much has been said about her but you have to giver her credit for trying to force the dems into a debate. A debate that they clearly do not want to have.
Even with the house, senate, presidency and the media, democrats are afraid of debating their "obamacare" plan. The less light, the better. This is why people loke Palin are attacked with such vigor everytime they attempt to excercise their rights to debate and discuss something that will affect all of us.
Good job Sarah.