Palin Was Right. Again.
Alan Reynolds of the Cato Insititute wrote about the criticism that was leveled against Governor Palin’s term “death panel” and the ruckus it caused. Specifically, he took apart PolitiFact’s criticism and how the “death panel” term evolved in the MSM. He opines:
The claim that Governor Palin confused one-on-one counseling between doctors and patients with any sort of “panel” was always ridiculous on its face. Indeed, that claim should itself have been a leading candidate for “Lie of the Year.” Yet Palin’s critics kept on equating death panels with counseling throughout the year, as though they could not even begin to understand plain English….
The shameless hoax that Palin had confused individual consulting with rationing by a panel was repeated endlessly. By November, the Washington Post was treating this obvious canard as a established fact: “Proposed health-care reform legislation includes a provision that allows Medicare to pay for “end-of-life” counseling for seniors and their families who request it. The provision — which Sarah Palin erroneously described as “death panels” for seniors — nearly derailed President Obama’s health-care initiative.”
Palin wrote: “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 horror of what Palin described is currently being enacted by the Congress – who wish to give us Death Panels in this mess of a health care “reform” bill that’s unconstitutional. Rationing for all, and end-of-life “consultations” for the elderly. Read Reynolds’ piece here.
