I am shocked!!!! !5 posts and not one insulted Palin.....I know it irks progressives if a woman is smart
Smart? Her false 'death panels' charge can only be viewed as extremely ignorant or extremely evil.
No one person could have done more to INCREASE the cost of Medicare than Palin's egregiously false 'death panel' claim.
And yet she didnt lie did she? Irks you doesnt it?
Yes, she DID lie. It was the
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year. PolitiFact readers overwhelmingly supported the decision. Nearly 5,000 voted in a national poll to name the biggest lie.
It was as egregious as a lie can be. She took something that conservatives should absolutely EMBRACE and LIED to fearmonger and destroy reform.
And the FACT that the cost of treating people in the last year of life, consumes more than 25-30% of Medicare’s budget, Sarah Palin's LIE made health care MORE EXPENSIVE. She is destructive and wasting taxpayers money.
Here are Sarah Palin's 'death panels'...advanced directives
Advanced directives puts decisions in proper hands
It’s hard to imagine how a compassionate, family-friendly measure — a measure that ultimately respects individual rights — could be twisted so grossly into the erroneous phrase “death panels.”
But, prepare yourself for more lies and more nonsense, because President Barack Obama has decided to do the right thing — and his critics already have resorted to fear-mongering and name-calling.
The concept of advanced directives was pioneered in La Crosse, thanks to our two first-class health care institutions.
It’s a simple concept: An individual, with the help of family, should have the ultimate say in the type of end-of-life care the individual receives. The best way to do that is through a careful consultation, with family and physician, before there is a health crisis — while the individual is still capable of having a rational voice in the decision.
Too often, those decisions are made when it’s too late for the individual to make the decisions. Instead, grieving family members are left to make the decision — and at times it’s nothing more than a guess.
Would the individual want extraordinary measures taken when the end is near? Why wouldn’t we trust the individual — in advance and when thinking clearly — to make that decision?
For those who crusade for the rights of the individual, here’s the question: Why are you so opposed to the individual being able to set down on paper, with help from family and physician, the standards and wishes for end-of-life care?
The issue of death panels became so hot during this year’s debate on health-care reform legislation that Democrats decided to pull that provision from the bill.
Denying procedures &/or claims is the same thing my friend.
