(CNN) - Sarah Palin is accusing President Obama’s health care plan of looking to create a “death panel” that would weigh whether her parents or son Trig were “worthy of health care.”
"Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re saying not just no, but hell no!" the former Alaska governor said in a post on her Facebook page late Friday.
In one of her first public policy statements since leaving office late last month, Palin discounted the administration’s view that the president’s plan would cut health care costs. The only path to lower costs, she said, was less treatment.
"And who will suffer the most when they ration care?" she wrote. "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."
Conservatives - including Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who Palin references in her post - have pointed to a provision in the House health care bill that calls for “advance care planning consultation.” The measure would make available to individuals the option of a consultation with a medical provider who would explain “advance care planning,” if they have not met with a senior medical practitioner within the previous five years. These sessions would be an optional benefit, and would not be mandatory under the legislation.
During these consultations, the doctor would answer questions about care, suggest other professionals to speak with, and offer an explanation of the legal definitions of living wills, powers of attorney and the role of a health care proxy. The doctor would also provide a list of national and state resources devoted to assisting individuals and families with advance care planning; inform people of existing end-of-life services like hospice care, and what sorts of financial benefits are available to help them take advantage of that support; and explain the meaning of different orders that relate to life-sustaining treatment.
The White House has not commented on Palin’s statement, which also takes aim at bioethicist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Palin spent most of the past week in New York City with her family, sightseeing and meeting with her book publisher.
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Just what page of the plan is this so called death panal on? I suggest that the plan for all Americans to have health care include shrinks. Reserve a couch for Cariboo Barbie.
Palin is absolutely insane.
Oh my! can there be any shallower than that?
She is CRAZY STUPID. She belongs in the looney bin. What a fool. I don't even have the words to describe how stupid I think she is.
What makes anyone who believes this crap think that "we" will ever let that happen? I have had it with people who push fear and stupidity as their life's work. I am an American and I would run to Washington D.C. with my forks (if I have to) to help take over our Government if they ever step over the line. It is what we all should have done when Bush was in office.
To Palin, shup the f up. Take your child (that you carry like a sack of potatoes and exploit to no end) and go away.....stay away from the civilized world.
I agree with Palin on this and I'm one of those seniors she is talking about. I'm sure the far left will be all over her as usual because they are afraid of her in any form. Keep it far left you are not destroying her; you are helping her.
Once again, the Republican party and its operatives continue their fear campaign based COMPLETELY on lies. Anyone with half a brain, which unfortunately seems to exclude most Republicans, can see the merits of this end of life discussion between a doctor and patient. Too many people are simply afraid to address the realities of life, which includes its end. We all need to make preparations for our care should we ever become critically ill, so that OUR WISHES, not someone's else's, will be carried out when we are not capable of doing so ourselves.
It's good that she is worried about her grandchild which has Down Syndrome, but I'm still waiting for something from the Conservatives besides finger pointing.... Just state the facts and maybe the public will have a different reaction than what they saw with the election... The majority of Americans that are able to think for ourselves no longer respond to mudslinging!
I thought she stepped down as Governor to protect her family from being in the spotlight? Funny, that.
We need Sarah Palin to stay active on the national front. We are slowly recognizing that President Teleprompter's change is not what we want. Bring it on Sarah.......it is simply wonderful to watch the lib feminists go nuts.
What a shock for Alaskans to discover that their exgovernor palin is one of the fringe element psychos in our country; one of the very elements that William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan worked to keep out of the Republican party but since Reagan 's terms these elements have slowly taken over the Republican party and have now turned it into a party of the crazies which is why it is so easy to convince them of ANYTHING no matter how bizarre. *sigh*
I wonder if Sarah has even read the proposal. I think these republicans are dead set against any proposal. They cannot afford bipartisanship because if something good comes out of it, then that is bad for them. They will be against everything that is suggested.
to use her child is pathetic, then she wonders why shes in the rader.
only the dumbest white women alive can't figure it out maybe she should ask Joe the fake plumber for advice,
sarah palin is an idiot.She is a hate monger and is using scare tatics Health care reform will allow families with diabled children and no healthcare to get treatment.
This is ridiculous. Giving people information on 'end of life' services (which are pretty complicated) is not the same as a 'death panel'. Can politicians stop being so alarmist and actually present us with the plain facts of this bill? Statements like this are DIVIDING OUR COUNTRY.
By the way, I am 23 and have a living will, which states in detail what I want in case I fall into a coma or die.
Can you believe this woman? I have never seen a person that could ignite so much discord/unrest/add fuel to the fire on an controversial issue. There are so many people that have no insurance or resource to get any kind of medical care here in the united states, it is really sad, because most of us work hard every day. Why is it that people like her would begrudge setting up a system that we could afford to pay into to get some health care too? It just does not make much sense to me. And to use disable children to try and make them into victims with a lie. That is very low down dirty rotten.
Talk about a giant leap of logic and a disturbing thought pattern .
Only a mentally disturbed person could reason that Obama, or anyone in the government, is contemplating a "Death Panel".
As paranoid as Palin is I am sure she see the need for one to deal with her many enemies.
Obama has already told the elderly that they will have to get used to their illnesses. After all, only he and his wife should have health care after 50. Why would it be any different for the young? BUT, it's the Republicans that are setting up this anger in the US. We have no brains to get upset because this stuff is being ramrodded through with no time to read the, I'm sure, very fine print. We only have enough sense to vote for the people that promise us a free life, free health care, money coming in the door without having to go out and work. We can all stay home and rake in the dough. Sorry folks, but I would rather go out to work than be on the dole when I am able-bodied.
I cannot believe the ignorance of this woman. It is only matched by those who support her.
This woman represents the Worst our country has to offer. What a terrible person. The only thing missing at het Hate Rallys is a Nazi symbol or White hood. Very dangerous the hate and discord she brings to the table. Remember the shouts of "KILL HIM" while she smiled during the Presidential campaign? Enough said
Of all the dishonest, stupid and un-American statement to come out of this women's mouth, this is by far a new low. If you are going to oppose something do so on the actual facts and merits of the issue not this sort of twisted drivel.
For God's sake, this is not in the bill! The insurance companies are currently making the decision about who gets treatment and who doesn't...under the new plan, the PATIENT will make the choice. Do you understand that there is no 'death panel'? There is an option to talk with an end-of-life expert to decide FOR yourself what the best options are. This is already out there...I had a dear friend of 82 looking at brain surgery, and he and his wife spent time with such a person so he could express his wishes should the surgery not be successful. There was no 'death panel.' Maybe Mrs. Palin ought to read a little more and listen to Hannity and Rush a few hours less per day. But I guess it's easier for her to just spout off, since she never feels it necessary to admit a mistake anyway.
Poor victim Sarah. Everyone is out to get her and her son. Come on Sarah – grow up!
so she would rather he elderly parents and son trig stand in front of greedy corporatations to decide the fate of their lives... is she, or for that matter, those against health care reform, i living in the real world. the world where a family pays thousands of dollars a month in health insurance premiums and then have a five thousand dollar deductible for procedures that have to be approved by the same health insurnace companies that you are paying thousands of dollars to..... really , are they that ingornant to think the current for-profit capitilist health care system is fine the way it is... stupid is as stupid says.
Go away Palin!!
Just who is taking care of dear Trig anyway, now that Palin has left her job? I would hope that Alaska doesn't have some lifetime insurance for governors who leave their posts.
sarah your son having you as a mother is the most pressing issue. you dont understand how the plan would work u twit. shut your hole and play big time witht e beocons who dont matter u fool
I am so disgusted by what these clowns are saying. Such lies and bs. But what is even worse is all of the people who blindly eat this bs. Shoot... investigate, read, and learn then make a choice don't just read/listen/look at a few horrible sources and regurgitate whatever poison you swallowed. There is no "death boards" or euthanasia crap...all of that is coming from the companies, liars, and politicians who have failed you as an American voter.
Why are you guys giving her a platform? Her words are irrevelant because she is nothing! At least Obama is doing something! What is her solution to health care reform. Im a 24 year old college student who can't afford health insurance! Pass the bill and raise the rich peoples taxes because they have money to afford it!
This woman is so ignorant she should be arrested. I'm all for free speech, but would someone please shut this rube up!?
Trig is Bristol's first mistake. And the biggest threat to Trig is psycho grandma
Seriously. Does anyone NOT see through this woman? All her proclamations come on Friday afternoons (slow news days, where they are sure to get more attention than they would otherwise). She says she is trying to avoid the media but asks to sit at the front of restaurants in NYC. And then she spouts garbage like this, which her followers will eat up and respew for years to come.
What is truly evil here is Sarah Palin herself. She seems not to care about the millions of people, disabled or not, who have no health care now because of the greedy industry that provides it. But Sarah is not one to let the facts ever stand in her way.
You may like her. You may not. But she is correct.
They will (the goverment) decide who lives who dies. Who gets health care and who does not.
The elderly will suffer the most.
I would rather health care stay exactly as it is.
KEEP THE GOVERMENT OUT OF IT.
THEY MESS UP EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH.
THEY ARE ALL CROOKS AND SPENDERS BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.
STAY OUT AND LEAVE IT PRIVATE.
Just say NO to Obama's health care proposal. It must be in writing and spelling out the details how the government is going to run our health care, not some package rammed through congress without every page reviewed and discussed.
When a fool speaks, fools listen. The list of fools grows. Palin, Limbaugh, Rove, Cheney, Hannity, O'Reilly, Coulter, the Birthers, on and on, all making fools of themselves, all being tuned in by fools.
Great to see Sarah weighing in on this. Her in-depth analysis is so welcome. Next she should claim that all conservatives will be forced to face an execution squad if this evil bill passes.
Isn't she regular citizen now? She is no longer elected official right? She need to walk a chalk line.
Sarah Palin is a lying shrew. I would think her parents would have taught her that lying is a sin, but obviously not. Trust me, she will NEVER win national political office. Go back under your rock with Ann Coulter.
I can't decide if this woman is dishonest, stupid, or some combination of the two.
What is evil is your ability to lie and manipulate facts. You are a master at phony outrage. I'm surprised you aren't on the abortion bandwagon too, another thing that is not in the bill.
Amen to that FACT. Big Brother does not want anyone but healthy people to be around. No people with any disabilities, frailities or ongoing health problems. He wants them eliminated. End of story.
I becha sarah gets free health care bye-golly
Great news! Sarah Palin consolidates her lunatic-fringe base! You go nutcase!
The question now is whether she is utterly dishonest or just utterly stupid. Either way, the Party of Lincoln probably deserves better. Yikes.
Palin you wouldn't know the truth if you fell over it. You're just another desperate Republican afraid of what her future is.
There will be no death panels under the new health care plan.
Not only are you a very stupid woman, you've lost what little mind you ever had.
Ms Palin is quickly progressing from an uninformed, slightly ridiculous footnote to the 2008 election to a still uninformed, obviously ridiculous liar. Between her "scare tactics" comments, and her continued willingness to use her special needs child as a political prop, she represents all of the reasons why the Republicans are becoming irrelevant.
OHHH Please, Stop it already. Hey Botox Bimbo, you don't qualify for goverment assistance. Its got to do something with Money or the lack of. And while on the subject, If you feel that public health plans are socialist, then medicare and medicad are also. So I guess we need to bring them to an end also. socialist is socialist. Go read a book or something to bring up your inteligance level from zero.
As an advocate for the developmentally disabled for a decade I can't think of anything more scary than this health care plan. We have spent decades and decades defending the rights of those who are unable to speak for themselves and now the government wants the right to decide for them if they are worthy of "saving". This is horrendous. This is the United States of America....we came to this country to fight for our freedom FROM government. The progressive movement wants to take us back to government control. The government does not always know what's best. The Democrats have gone too far. This is NOT the change people wanted.
If you have insurance already, you keep your plan...I don't understand why ppl keep distorting this legislation so much...debate is debate, but lies are misstatements are rediculous...
This lady is SUCH a moron!!!! Doesn't she realize that nobody cares what she has to say?????
Go back to sleep quitter.
There will be a lot of hateful and shameful comments to appear on this blog attacking Sarah Palin. However, Palin is right. If you look at the plan and what it establishes in terms of healthcare, it is healthcare by "selection".
I love that Palin is quoting chain emails. Is this the best the Republican party has to offer? Does she not care about the millions of people who do not have health care now? What about all of the sick that are lacking insurance now? All she cares about is herself. Self centered (expletive). She has no business in the public light.
Dont put your kids out there if you dont want people commenting however they want on them. People like Palin are driving costs up by having so many kids. By the time the 12th one comes out its retarded or has other major complications. Save the country by wearing a condom or aborting that mistake.
Incredulous. Wasn't it just last week when she stood before us all and said "Stop making stuff up?" This is flagrant distortion of the very provisions of the bill which members of the Republican Party inserted in the bill, making this desired, previously-unreimbursed type of personal planning available as an option to patients (i.e., a patient's right if they want to do it not mandatory in any way). Until it was in a proposal that Obama is supporting, Republicans hailed this idea as part of an individual's right to self determination that keeps the state out of your end of life decisions if you didn't have the foresight to plan ahead yourself. This is precisely the type of alleged distortions she herself accused the MSM of perpetrating against her. And the "grass-roots" kooks we see screaming and railing against Obama and health care reform now are buying this garbage hook-line-and-sinker. Amazing, well "The blind leading the blind" is what I think everytime i see one of these "Palin 2012" bumper stickers.
Trig has a pre-existing condition. Now that your a private citizen, you might find it difficult to find insurance. Now that's a real "Death Panel" unlike the imaginary one that you see in the health care reform package.
Could Mrs. Palin kindly give an exact source for her fears about less care for her son ?
I wish she would stop USING her family for politcal comments. I find it especially distastefull.
Palin – Bachmann 2012. Only they can rid the country of evil doers and unpatriotic types. Maybe they can run on the platform of insuring women are not denied the right to give birth.
only God has that much power, she is a sick woman.
This woman makes me sick. God forbid anyone in the media ever mention her family, especially her special needs child. However, she can thrown him in the spotlight over and over again as long as it benefits her own self interests. Now President Obama is going to form a "Death Panel" specifically to deny special needs children like her son care? The more this woman spews her crap out of her mouth the more I am disgusted by her. Since the President is going to be forming this death panel, I wonder how many members of Congress will be forced to die seeing as how there are quite a few who are over the age of 65, many with pre-existing conditions....like John McCain. Give me a break.
There is no 'death panel!' I wish the right's fear of a black President would quit manifesting itself in these lies. There are already people who talk to the elderly about their wishes for end-of-life care. This is not a mandate...it is an OPTION that will be paid for under the plan. Having this discussion is important because if a person prefers a DNR, that has to be noted, or you could be kept alive as a vegetable. If you want to stay at home as long as possible, someone needs to know that.
As for the disabled, no one is going to kill them either. This woman listens to too much Rush and Hannity. As she said, "Sarah, please quit making things up!"
Ugh- this woman is just painful.
Painfully ignorant...painfully misinformed....painfully unqualified.....
Between her and Virginia Foxx spewing their half baked rhetoric, no wonder people are getting scared. They are making it impossible to have a RATIONAL conversation so that we can reach a COMPROMISE and move forward. I have never been more disgusted with American politics. Foxx and Palin are absolutely the worst my old party has ever produced.
This woman is certifiably insane.
"The only path to lower costs, Pain-lin said, was less treatment" – Ok, now I know this woman doesn't have a brain in her egg-head; does she really believe that higher cost guaranty better healthcare?....that means she likes the status quo...with the cost of healthcare rising. she got millions anywayz; so she can afford to save Trig and the rest of her inbecile & out-of-wedlock child bearing kids....from the lower cost "death panel" or opps healthcare.
Man. I thought Sarah Palin would be talking like she has some intelligience. She is a lame-brain in or our of public life. What a shame! And, I thought she was a smart person caught-up with the wrong folks!
This is Sarah doing what she does best: spreading lies and encouraging uneducated Americans to disrupt the process of democracy. She doesn't get it, so she strikes with the only thing she has..her ignorance. There are many issues to be concerned about in America. Perhaps the most disturbing is that this woman actually won public office.
This is not about healthcare. This is about taking over 1/6 of the economy. I do not know any doctor in my area who thinks this is a good plan. This is about expanding government and fraud. With the economy teetering on bankruptcy the Democrats want us to believe that they can launch a takeover of the healthcare industry, make it efficient and cost effective and help the economy. That's just ridiculous. Now they dismiss the people with concerns and bus in their hired goons from SEIU and ACORN and then call us "mobs". Wake up people!!! This is not democracy. This is a takeover.
That woman is shameless, clueless and reckless.
The insurance companies are doing that now and it's based on profit not needed care. It's time to take care of everyone- not just the ones who can afford it. Maybe if Sara Palin was living in a low income area
with no money, she might just have a different outlook. Where would you family be then!
That's it Sarah. Keep dragging your kids in front of you and whine how the media picks on them.
How an airhead like her made it in politics is a REAL mystery.
Why is she lying?
I have a special needs child and I can confirm that as a special needs child she and Trig both qualify for medicaid. The Obama plan would not effect either child. I think if Sarah would spend as much time reading as she does comp[laining and "tweeting" she would know that!
Just more proof Sarah Palin either can't read, chooses not to read, or just simply ignores reality. Or perhaps they haven't covered the facts surrounding healthcare in Runner's World. Bottom line, demagoguery such as this is shameful, but unfortunately appears to work in her circle of followers. Let's hope the a majority of the people don't fall for it.
Well, technically I think Palin's fear of her aging parents and her son having to beg for care is a non-starter. After all, I am sure that with all the money she will earn writing her book, the entire family will be safe and sound. I'm tired of wealthy political players having the right to comment on MY care!
I am interested to see the Administration's plan and hopeful it will mirror, in some way, Canada's. I lived and worked there for a year and was able to enjoy the health care there...it was great! I am happy to pay more tax on booze and other luxuries to help cover the cost....why not?!?
She's right. I'd go on, but certainly I'd be reported for disagreeing with the president's health care plan.
A bit far fetched, but you Go Sarah.
Every detail of this plan needs to be vetted completely, not like the Dems did in selecting this socializer.
Palin is right on the mark. She has the ability to explain complex issues in plain language.
Well. She's upped David Letterman. Not only has she straight up lied to scare people but she's using her own child as a political tool. Much worse, in my mind, than making a joke about someone else's daughter. "Death Panel" is one of the most disgustingly disingenuous phrases I've ever heard. What a complete, bald-face liar.
That woman is dangerous. What an idiot.
"Death panel?" Where did she dig this up? Even the people who have actually read his proposals don't know about the death panel.
The Republican side is relentlessly deceptive and divisive with no sign of co-operation or constructive contributions. Their constant rumor mongering and misrepresentation just makes them look worse all the time. Their own Senators are dropping out due to the embarrassment that continued association brings.
And Sarah Palin is probably more concerned about her ability to get more cosmetic surgery than the welfare of any of the children in her life. At this point, the only people who find her credible are those who are even more stupid than she is.
Wink if you think I might be talking about you.
Doesn't she realize this is exactly how the insurance industry runs right now...I have a Child with Cerebral Palsy and because we had a year gap with no insurance and his prior conditions no Private insurance company will cover us. I think anything the government can do to give us more options for health care can only help us in need.
Hey Palin... what are you doing in NYC? This is a liberal city that's not a part of real america remember? Oh that's right, you need to make a buck so you have to set foot in a liberal city. I'll tell you what's evil Palin... letting insurance and drug companies run a racket by charging $100 for drugs that cost .25 cents to make, when they sell the same drug in other developed countries such as the UK for $5 because other countries will not tolerate their racket. Only in America enough morons believe it's ok to fear government involvement in a basic necessity to sustain a progressing society such as health care. But then again, 44% of americans believe in a 6000 year old earth. Therefore, I'm not surprised we vote intellectually starved public officials such as Palin.
Either Palin's understanding of the bill is as clear as her understanding of the VP's role in American government, or she is a bald-faced liar.
I can't believe these scare tactics are working.
Right now my health care is decided by an insurance company which I pay 25% of my income to in premiums, copays and deductibles. In the insurance companie's case there is a profit motive to deny me coverage .... why don't people talk about that?
If private insurance companies decide that his son is worth treatment that is okay by Palin, though... The death panel is Palin and her kind, really...
This is full of such distortion that it is equivalent to yelling "fire" in a movie theater. There is free speech and then there is irresponsibility. While Ms Palin is now a private citizen, as is President Bush, you cannot just go around completely distorting the truth to promote your own agenda.
I'm sick of this woman and her lying mouth. The constant distortions by the right on this issue and others are laughable. They have no morality, no conscious, and no ideas so they lie, lie, lie.
If the republicans are angry then I know Obama is doing the right thing.
Please... enough of Palin and her ridiculous comments.
someone on goverment funded healthcare(maybie she should really look into the full health care debate instead of taking the side the lobbiest tell her to),but of course she don't make money that way.Her book is going to bomb.she is going to have to make sense and i just don't see that from her.Thoughts of a bimbo just don't make good reading.
Palin's statement about her parents and Trig are sick. She will say anything to stay in the media limelight.
Sarah Palin's 15 seconds of fame should have ended 14 seconds early. Can we please move forward?
This is ridiculous. Kids as young as Trig have so much life left to live and so long to be productive members of society that under ANY system, including Germany/England/Canada, they are considered worthy of ANY treatment.
She is purely talking to the republican town hall talking points here.
I've never heard of countries murdering special needs kids because they don't want to pay for their treatment.
And I'm PRETTY SURE WE WOULD HAVE heard of this in this day of twitter and iReports, its awfully hard to get away with killing kids these days in democratic societies...
Saray just shut up and go away, PLEASSSSE.
It is much more fair when only the ultra wealthy like the Palin' can afford quality care for their sick children. Why do we care about this girl's opinion about healthcare anyway? What makes her any sort of authority on this issue? It is about as relevant as Paris Hilton's opinion.
Every time I think she can't get any more ridiculous, she surprises me. Republicans will never be taken seriously again until they can get back to a place where serious adults run the party, and not whackjobs like her.
This is all about if you have money you can afford to buy the good care we recieve today. He's taking care of the Elite like when he jumped to his friend Gates side and called the cops stupid. He loves his stardom and "cool ride" and the retreats in the Hamptons for $70,000 a night. If you dont agree with him its because your too stupid. Hollywood elite love it. The rest of us get the cattle medical care, cue up and wait, then see the gov doctor. Kind of like a public defender in the courts. Its free but not good. The rest of our employers will drop us and we'll be on the cattle plan. Hope nothing is wrong with you.
Sarah Palin doesn't even have a political career because she quite, so who cares about the crackpot comments she makes? Sarah Palin is quite simply a non-entity.
CNN, you have finally gone to the point of no return on reporting.
To headline an article such as this has destroyed what little
credibility, ethics you had left.
Palin is very much responsible for inciting, feeding, supporting the
anger, hate, prejudice and unrest within our country during her
campaign. Her lies, distortions, unethical, dishonorable behavior was a black mark on politics in our country.
And for you to print this article, make it a headline, support this trash
puts you in the same category as her.
With this irresponsible reporting you have stooped even lower
than FOX.
Intellitgen Americans are appalled at your actions.
Sounds like attention mongering preceding her book deal.....look for more from her leading up to the book release....
What I find so disingenuous about this whole health care debate, is how it seems most of the opponents of the bill (and honestly some of the proponents) have never even read the bill. They repeat the myths as fact.
If Mrs. Palin had actually read the bill, she would know, that her child would not be marched off to a "death panel", but instead would be guaranteed care in spite of his previous condition.
This issue (health care), is not just an issue of economic concern (escalating costs, and rampant collusion) but also one of civil rights. Right now those who have experience any major illness or accident are discriminated against. That is not how this country is suppossed to work.
Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota are 2 clueless
evil Witches!!!
Way to go Sarah, you hit the nail on the head. Remember the movid Logan's Run? It is the Obama health care plan.
I think she's just being funny...right?
OMG....this is an OUTRIGHT lie, but then that is what we have come to expect from this woman. She will say ANYTHING to keep her name in the news and the more outrageous the better.
If ANY of you believe this or a WORD she says you need the serious psychological help that she so much needs.
There is NO death panel, no rationing of care. This is ALL a LIE that the Repubs are using to scare and intimidate. The big insurance companies and lobbies are funding this movement. Do yourself a favor and READ the BILL and see for yourself that what this IDIOT says is not in the bill. This article explains what the Bill says but read if for yourself if you don't believe it. When you do you will see that PALIN LIES.
This woman never misses an opportunity to exploit her children...how sad.
Oh please....what a bizarre mindset one would have to have to buy into this sort of garbage.
Sarah..quit embarrassing our entire country and let President Obama introduce decent healthcare for everyone...including my own disabled son.
Never in my life time would I think I'd see a president calling on his organizers to "ATTACK" the American people who oppose him. This is not America....that is a KGB tactic. How much "healing" have you seen going on from the White House??? I see a lot more division and a lot more partisan ugliness. This is not what people voted for. When people exercise their right to freedom of speech and your party organizes bus loads of people to go beat them up (SEIU) I call that illegal. The Rahm Emmanuel mafia machine needs to be investigated for the snitch website and these arm-breaking tactics. This is not American...this is a THUG straight up.
The Republicans have been soundly voted out. Sarah Palin abrogated her responsibilities to her State and she is now ranting, but clearly has no workable solutions to offer.
What about all the people who cannot get and/or cannot afford health care now? She is fine, of course. She and her family have health care, so why change the status quo that works for her?
I say why not give something else a chance? If it does not work, the Republicans can dismantle it when they get voted back (LOL) into office.
I don't know that we've seen as ignorant a woman as Sarah Palin get as high in American politics. Her ignorance is truly wacko and to knowingly mislead Americans about health care reform in order to push the crazy Rethuglican agenda is just plain unpatriotic. It is one thing to disagree with government providing a roadmap to healthcare for this country but to actively tell lies about what that program says is unethical. Ignorance is not bliss, especially when everyone will need good quality health care and will need to be able to afford it. Excuse me Sarah, 'death panel' is just a pure lie and these reforms advocate actually being able to provide your son and your mother with care for their entire lives. Stop either being or playing stupid. It's just not attractive.
She is a shameless liar. Shame Shame Shame on you Sarah.....
Another irresponsible rant by the Nut from the North. First, Pres Obama 'hangs around with terrorists.' Now, he has a planned 'death panel' to kill Americans. Put Palin in a crowded theater, and she will yell, "Fire!!"
Mark my words. When a psychologically unstable person makes an attempt on the president's life (after all, Gov. Palin said he was a terrorist and wanted to kill Americans), there will be blood on Palin's hands.
Thinking Voter
Enough is enough.
Is this the only thing you republicans know how to do. Play on fear and lies. I am amazed that our country has some people that can be brain washed with these false statements. I question the intellegence of the people who follow these liers. They need to go and read the proposals themselves instead of getting instructions from the big corperations to what to ask in the townhall meetings. I am sad that we might pass on a meaningfull health care reform because of this but again maybe we deserve the disaster that we are destined to if we don't do this reform.
I am disabled and on a Medicare advantage plan. I personally had to wait two years for a specialist appointment because only one physican was available under my plan. If government takes more control, how many more people will have to wait that long for an appointment. In my view, government is already failing with their Medicare policies. They have caused the increase in cost. When they implimented documentation guidelines for physicians, billing charges at least tripled. I worked in medical billing for 20 years and saw this happened. Physicians learned how to document to the highest level of exams for even a simple earache.
This lady is still grinding her mouth?? hey sarah go back to school and lately have you spoken with president Sarkozy?? i heard he is so exicited for hunting trip in alaska. bye and make sure brush your teeth and go to bed early.
where is this women from. she is down right dangerous. thank god she isnt our vp the sad thing is there are people out there that will listen and believe everything she says. i feel sorry for her and those people.
"Death panel". What the hell is Palin talking about now. Her ignorance and lack of logic is scary.
Having lived more than a decade in Canada, grown up in the UK, and experienced life in Sweden, and seen universal health care succeed, it baffles me why there is resistance to much needed reform in this country.
Does she really believe this? Is she either this dumb or this big a liar?
Will she please go away. The more she speaks, the more stupid she sounds, and that is an accomplishment. To scare people the way she is doing and to misrepresent fact to benefit her own ideological agenda is what is evil. Please, please, please go away.
Another irresponsible rant by the Nut from the North. First, Pres Obama 'hangs around with terrorists.' Now, he has a planned 'death panel' to kill Americans. Put Palin in a crowded theater, and she will yell, "Fire!!"
Thinking Voter
I thought her family was off limits. i guess she can break that rule to slam Obama.
P.S.
Rebecca Sinderbrand should be fired and those who allowed this
garbage.
She has no worry, as FOX loves such unethical, dishonorable
producers as her.
She ought to make her book science fiction. This is pretty good stuff.
In a national debate on an important issue like health care, one would hope that Republican eaders like Sara Palin would use facts rather than fiction to support their case.
have pointed to a provision in the House health care bill that calls for “advance care planning consultation.” The measure would make available to individuals the option of a consultation with a medical provider who would explain “advance care planning,” if they have not met with a senior medical practitioner within the previous five years. These sessions would be an optional benefit, and would not be mandatory under the legislation.
So what part don't you understand Sarah?
Do you want confessions from GITMO detainees? forget waterboarding....Just send Palin to talk to them...
Better headline would be "Palin: Ficticious 'death' panel..."
Why give credence to the belief there is such a thing at all?
It's just lies, lies, and more lies from the most ignorant citizens.
I'm sick of any news organization even giving them a microphone, especially if they won't report the truth as prominently as the lies.
Palin has once again she is not educated on healthcare issues. She has bought into and is spreading the garbage the Repuglican party is feeding America.
I ask people to please educate themselves on the issues and choose for themselves.
PALIN is such a DEMAGOGUE!!
Here come the SCARE TACTICS!!! Politics as usual huh!!!!!
What happen to being all Mavericky!!!!????
Just the thought of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann advising the American people about Health Care scares me!!!!
What also scares me is that clueless and ignorant people believe this!!!!!
What a disgusting woman.
This is the kind of stupidity that is fueling chaos and mayhem as Americans try to engage in a sensible discussion about health care. Surely Sarah Palin is not this ignorant but she sees an opportunity to use the confusion and misinformation people have to advance her dwindling political fortunes.
For how long will this primitive woman drag her little baby into every debate in America. Leave the poor kid alone and take your backward politics somewhere else. You are an embarrassment to America. Imagine this fool was supposed our V.P a heartbeat away from the presidency.
This woman needs to stay away from politics since the media seems to be bashing her in her own mind and more so to stop spreading unthruths about Obama and associations on the campaign trail or this nonsensical untruth about a so called death panel which she regurgiates from Rush Limburgh. Once she starts reading she'll find out that you can keep your current health care and not sign on to the Governments health care public plan. It's amazing that she and others, birthers have not gotten over an election lost. The Republican party seem to have turned into a bunch of sore losers crybabies, hopefully to never be in power again to screw this country.
Being the mother of special needs child & having access to medicaid, I can say unequivocally that Sarah Palin is even a bigger & more dangerous idiot than I previously thought.
Yea! You go girl!!! Enough people screaming loud enough may yet be able to kill this non-health care "plan".
I thought Sarah Palin was angry at the Comedian Letterman for talking about her daughter on his late nite show. Now she brings her baby with Down Syndrome into the debate and saying the President wants to Kill her her baby with Down Syndrome. Now if people start talking of her Down Syndrome baby, will she get angry? This woman is crazy and she uses her children for political purpose.
I hope CNN and the media will call her on this, because regardless of what you think of the President plan, for somone to bring her sick child into this is wrong and using kids for political menas.
The Democrats need to just remain calm and respond with clarity and conciseness to the Republicans' distortion of the facts. The Republicans are destroying themselves before everyone's eyes. The Republicans are relying on fringe members to disrupt. Keep up the great work Palin!!!
The beast has arisen. What a complete clown she is. She is again using her children, how shameful. Please someone help her back to the frozen tundra so she can spew her ill-informed garbage to her own echo.
Please...using her kid to evoke pity and to try to get folks to listen to her mindless rambling. pathetic really. as vanity fair stated, she trys to bring up big issues but cannot fully understand the concepts nor the basic primary facts about much of anything as she lacks the mental ability and knowledge to do so. and to think...republicans feel this is what the country needs. wow. so many republican friends are deserting the party due to her. she is pathetic and not worthy of news space. please stop.
Obama care would mandate the death of "defective" babies before they are born. And the elderly will be denied care that would extend their life in any way. We fought WWII to destroy such sick behavior in Nazi Germany. We must not allow Obama and his comrades to resurrect this sickenss on American soil.
I just don't get where all the hysteria is coming from! And now from someone who, while I don't agree with her on some issues, I have in the past respected ,has jumped on the loony-mobile.
Where does any of the bills state that there will be a "death panel"? Hospice and advanced care planning are wonderful services that have benefitted two close members of my family with terminal cancer. A third is now battling her PRIVATE insurance carrier over the right to recieve hospice care.
Why do you still report on the activities or comments of Sarah Palin? She's not even a governor any more. What does she have to do with anything????
These Republicans are not gonna be happy until someone gets seriously hurt,They are posioning peoples minds arousing anger THEY NEED TO STOP GROW UP AND HAVE A DEBATE LIKE ADULTS! And to this crackpot Palin first of all Quitter get a brain Get some Intelligence and just maybe people will listen to you you moron
She is just stupid as usual and she doesn't know what she is talking about.
How dare anyone mention one of Palin's precious offspring. She has NEVER used them as political props to score points.. [/sacasm off]
OMG!!! THATS A BRILLIANT IDEA! THEN WE WOULDNT GO BANKRUPT? I like not paying $800,000 for someone who is destined to be on wellfare their entire life. Sounds.... pro-duc-tive...
Lets all get used to the idea that 1. rich people should pay more. 2. everyone WILL pay more (cause we can't borrow) 3. people who are getting more than they are putting in need to be scaled back (and there is no nice way to do it).
She trying to get a show on Fox News....where else can she put the stupid crap out and get paid for it.......Oh! I forgot CNN has good old Lou Dobbs so maybe she can get a show on CNN
Ok, this is just stupid. What does Palin think the insurance companies are doing right now? They choose who gets healthcare as well and I'm sure Obama's plan would allow more people to get healthcare than the current system.
Like so many other rants from Palin, she is over exaggerating. Check your facts and quit complaining, Sarah. Your book deal will more than pay for your son's care.
Interesting. I wonder how this quote of yours fits into this:
"The only path to lower costs, she said, was less treatment."
So next time your sick son needs care Mrs. Palin, why don't you Skipp a Dr. visit and save the system some money.
I got mine, screw you, a proven republican mantra. This party has only got 2 kinds of 'followers', the 'greedy beyond measure', and the low IQ crowd.
At this time on this planet every industrialized country views health care as a right of its people, not a privilege!
I would not let my 3 year old take part in an 'adult' conversation, why would I let a republican?! I'm sorry it has come to this, but this is the sad state of affairs.
The Obama and Democrats health care plan will be cheaper,
not in monetary value , but in services. They will decide who
gets procedures and who gets pain pills. I doubt if they will
pay for the FUNERALS.
Would the MSM PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop giving this half-witted twit coverage??? She doesn't have the sense God gave a goose!!!
You forgot to mention that these concepts were introduced into the legislation by Republicans. Living Wills are a good idea and actually give you more control over what will happen at the end of your life. Sarah Palin is just joining the chorus of fear mongers who stand to personally benefit if health insurance reform is defeated. This stoops pretty low though and the imagery she conjures is outrageous – but Hey, it's Sarah.
I wonder why Mrs. Palin did not protect her older daughter the same way she is protecting us from Obama’s health plan. Is she applying two different standards?
How come she did not accused her so called “son in law” of having sex with her underage daughter? I think that she needs protection too from the law. I am glad that she is doing something right for her son Trig.
i dont think i can listen to sarah for more than 2 minutes without rolling my eyes.
I think she's getting Obama's plan mixed up with the status quo. The whole point of a public option is to create a service that will treat people that the current private insurance will not for financial reasons.
Sarah Palin knows she is just making up this whole "death panel" thing. It's a total distortion, but once again she is willing to use one of her children as a political prop. Shame on her for using her children in this way, and shame on her trying to deceive the American people on the real need for health insurance reform.
I really wish this woman would just go away. Until (if ever) she knows what she is talking about, she needs to learn how to keep her mouth shut, the rest of us will be smarter for not having to listen to her idiocy.
Oh my Gosh....here we go with FEAR TACTICS again...does the Republican politicians ever stop???? I guess Health care is just meant for the Rich, and deserving in society, and the rest can fall by the wayside correct??? Not in my heart it isn't. EVERYONE SHOULD BE ENTITITLED to quality, affordable health care...not just the few!!!
Lol, the woman is a delusional propagandist, a wingnut to the extreme. More lies and fear mongering from an outdated political party gasping for it's last dying breath.
She may well have a point about this healthcare debate or not, doesn't really matter. It's a shame she has to use her disabled son as a political football. I wonder what he will think of his mother when he grows up.
Does the exgovernor suggest that death panels by private insurance companies are any better? I seem to know a LOT of stories of insurance companies denying procedures that could be life saving under the bais of cost or its expiremental. Sarah, please spreading fear is not the way to the oval office.
She is so cute!
You are a quitter. You incompetance is mystifying. Really, who takes heed in what you say?
Her statement is unbelievable. Why can't she contribute something constructive to the debate. With her it is always no solution, just fear mongering.
Exploiting one of her children to garner attention again. What a surprise!
And lying about the content of the plan.
No surprise there either!
If only the opinion of a quitter carried weight.
Aren't we being just a tad bit dramatic Sarah? .... "Death panel" What amuses me about the Republican party is that you deal in fear. So tell me sweet cheeks (oh my ... I'm being dramatic) ... how would YOU solve the health care crisis. OH YES that's right ... didn't you know? .... There's a health care crises to where eventually NOBODY is going to be able to afford health care.
Who cares what she says. She is just flat out dumb, dumb dumb.
Not much going for her except the ability to spew fear, hate, and ignorance. No thanks.
Belligerance is the currency of the intellectually bankrupt – Charles M. Blow
what a hypocrite! she tells the media to keep her kids out of the spotlight but she keeps throwing them in there every chance she gets to further her political agenda. palin will do anything for attention at whatever cost to her children.
And the only path to lower costs is not less treatment, but increased options and competition, says the free-market!
The looneys are getting loonier all the time.
wow looks like they are really tring to ge the nuts all juiced up
Who gave this idiot a national platform from which to spew blatant lies?? She sounds like a crazy person.. what is she even talking about?
We need health care more than ever right now. Don't mess it up, Sarah, with your extremely juvenile ideas about how our government works.
We need a prerequisite for vice presidential candidates, something along the lines of "must form a coherent sentence."
Palin is spreading fear as a political strategy, and that is just wrong.
I can not believe what a complete IDIOT this woman is. IDIOT! IDIOT! IDIOT!
Once again, Palin's own words prove her to be an uninformed fundamentalist, anti-intellectual, a perfect example of American Taliban. The greatest danger to her child comes from her dragging it around like a stage prop.
Health care reform, as proposed by our President, will broaden access to health care for those families who have aging parents or disabled children but who don't have a half-million dollar illegal slush fund and a multi-million dollar ghost-written book deal.
She' just another Republican fundamentalist ready to turn the US into a theocracy. She got hers, screw the public.
What Bill is she reading because it is rather different than the one the rest of us have......"death panels"?
Could you point out to me where the "death panel's" are defined in the proposals again? I keep missing that provision in the plans that have been put together? I don't want nationalized health care either, but this is one topic that needs to stop being politicized. We need real change and all this 'gaming' and contorting of facts by both parties will only guarantee that we screw up the objective of effective reform. . . Which of course is the only thing that anyone can agree on!
How nice to see that Sarah Palin still uses her baby as a prop. The stupid is strong in this one, that's for certain.
This is beyond believe and heartless that this woman, a mother will used her sick child with down syndrome to enter into the health care debate. Didn't she few months ago was rightfully angry when David Letterman when he made awful joke about her daughter?
Sarah Palin used her sick child to attack the president and later she will claim the media is discussing her family.
America already lets the market decide who lives and who dies based on their level of productivity in society.
We are already rationing care to the millions of American who don't have health insurance. This person is a nutty as squirrel chit.
Once again, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she is talking about. She is a buffoon.
I thought the kids were off limits? Oh wait.
Was she reading the health care bill or Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"? I think there was a mix-up.
I'm beginning to think Sarah Palin is just plain out of her mind.
There you go again Sarah! Pimping your children for political purposes, then you get mad at the "MAINSTREAM MEDIA" and late night commedians for "making stuff up" about your family. She's the most disgusting, pathetic politician in America!
For once I agree with her . If people would only take the time to study the
" Healthcare Plan " they would be shocked . There are many
" Non-issues " slipped in there . This bill falls under the old saying " Be careful what you wish for ."
Has any body checked, is Palin drunk?
This lady is operating with a few pennies short of a dime. A serious wacko with no concept of reality and a total lack of common sense.
This woman is a loon. What ever happened to checking your facts CNN? You print any rubbish any one says, the more salacious the better, and don't even bother checking into whether this baloney she is spouting is correct? Hang your heads in shame.
what is wrong with this woman? I think she is the evil one.
The ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY of this woman astounds me.
THe grand old party of liars and thieves.Sarah needs her head examined for spouting off such lies. What does she think happens to people now who work and still are either not offered or cannot afford health insurance? THey die if they are not getting proper adequate healthcare.
Has she read the bill? HOW is her son at risk? She gives no truthful details. Do they really have nothing to offer? Is that the only thing we can really deduce from her statement?
They're creepy and they're spooky,
mysterious and kooky,
they're altogether ooky,
The Palin Family.
Sarah is great. She'll be in the political spotlight for many years to come, long after Obama has gone off to write his memoirs.
Good grief... "death panel"?? Didn't Palin just tell someone last week to "quit making stuff up"? What an idiot.
She's not only stupid, she's a nut job ! She's living up to the Republican standard of making up crap to scare people. Only the ignorant in our society would believe her fairy tales. She has proven again that she has no integrity whatsoever.
Are you kidding? With all the money that unsuspecting rubes will gladly hand over to see her wink and misinform on her 'talk' tour, she has the nerve to talk about health care reform that will assist special needs kids, like her own. Anything to stay in the spotlight, I guess. Including using her own kids to stay in the glare.
Oh Sara, it got to be a wonderful day in America to act so stupid, might I say as ALWAYS.
There she goes again, using her special needs baby as props. Disgusting!
The person most threatening to Trig is his mother! Palin, is an absentee mother, who goes around the country spreading lies.
Palin needs a lesson in se/x education. She had no business having a baby at her age (which increases the chances of Down Syndrome), and her daughter shouldn't have gotten pregnant at such a young age.
Absolutely shameless to drag her child into her political rants.
Sarah Palin is a boldface liar. I would say that to her face, and gladly sit down for a beer with her and anyone else she wants to invite, so there would be no mistaking my distaste for all of the folks who are spreading false statements about a Healthcare Plan that does not exist. First, there is no Healthcare Plan from the White House. The President has asked the House and Senate to move quickly and boldly, with only one House Committee offering a Base Plan. No one has discussed any specifics, and no one, on either side of the aisle has discussed what Sarah Palin claims. Scare tactics, such as this, are identical to screaming "Fire" in a theater.
Sarah Palin is quite the clown...
And what does Trig's biological mother, Bristol, have to say?
You know what Lady...you represent everything that is wrong with this country...
i here by crown you the official.......the queen of ignorance....
The Obama administration is sounding a lot like the Nazis these days. His health "czar" wants the State to mandate abortion, euthanize the elderly and disabled, and shouts down dissent with intimidation and force. Hitler has returned and he is a mullato African.
I have 2 special needs grandchildren. I am very concerned about the Health care plan that is being promoted. That is primary. I am very concerned about the plan as it stands and paying for abortions on demand. I am not being told how to express my feelings or my position by anyone else. And I don't believe the plan is economically sound for anyone's sake. This is very unsettling. Now will I be tracked too. ??? This seems to be more socialistic then anything else in our society. And the Death Panel, my husband and I are in our 60's. What does that mean for our care? Sherrie
This woman could have been a heartbeat away from the Presidency. This is shameful and dishonest, just like the hate rallies she held during the campaign last year. She is a disgrace to civic discourse.
CNN, I wonder, at this particularly intense and dangerous time, if you really want to fan the flames like all the Fox news haters out there, by reporting on the disgraceful things that come out of this ignorant woman's mouth. Let all those guys who distort the "news" cover her when she is trying to rabble rouse, please. You're better than this.
WELL SAID SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I agree with you on something. What can we do about this outrage? I'm listening.
and she thinks that mommie's policies are going to help the Trigster?????????????
If "'level of productivity in society" is the criteria, Sarah herself should be worried
My comment is a question. What has Palin done or said that isn't self-serving or adversarial? If she represents America, we're in bigger trouble than the economy.
Palin is starving for public attention. Deny her that, and she will fade away just like so many wannabes before her. In my opinion, she has nothing to say of any value, and certainly has little or no political future. End of story.
Oh please...
"Obama's death panel" "Downright evil"
Haven't we had enough of these wingnuts – Palin and Bachmann?
This woman was almost one heartbeat away from the presidency.
As much as I enjoy seeing her physicality, I must say that she's getting wackier as time goes on.
This latest outburst is a new high in looneyness for her and will drive her still further into the fringe ranks!!
Scary to think that there was a real chance at one point of her being a heartbeat from the Oval office!!!
palin!! there u go again..the provision was put in by a republican.. it only states what we all should do "is have a living will or tell family members" what they would like to have done at end of life.. my father died recently, but before he died he told his children to not keep him on life support and let him die w/dignity.. please go back to alaska and spew your LIES!!!
What a outright LIE!!!!
Shameful that this woman is even given press on this matter.
As a quitter she has absolutely ZERO credibility now.
Like a bad dream she needs to just go away.
The only threat to that kid is having a loon mom like palin. She knew the high risks associated with having a kid at her age and didnt care. She should be ashamed of herself. Shes a horrible role model to the kids, and is a joke to the people of the lower 48, atleast the ones NOT in south
We need health care reform to help Palin
She need help !!!!!!!!!
She doesn’t know what she is doing
She doesn’t know what she is talking
We have to pass the bill as soon as possible to help Palin
I don't want my taxes paying for the health care of the disabled. Obama is right in this!
advance care planning consultation sounds like a great idea to me
Well if you already did not think she was a moron this rant about a death panel killing her kids should be the icing on the cake.
Typical fear tactics... it's so sad. What the "millions of Americans who are concerned" (the ones yelling at town meetings instead of listening) aren't admitting is that a "death panel" already exists for millions MORE Americans who have no health care. Period. Please, Sarah. Trig is safe and can get therapy because you're middle class. Go sell that crap to someone on welfare with a DS child who can't even get him a check-up. She makes me sick. Hey! But that's okay... I have insurance. Luckily, only other middle class people have an internet connection and can read her stupid posts. So those who are currently at the mercy of ERs and handouts are safe.
The reasons Palin quit as governor of Alaska were to focus on her family and because of the media attention on her family, so as soon as the opportunity arises, she's using her disabled infant son as a prop to make a dishonest political statement about the president's health plan.
Hypocrite.
Palin clearly has niotvread or doesn't understand what is in the proposed legislation. She also should leave her grandson out of the debate.
I've got news for her, the insurance companies are rationing care right now. They have a rescission board that reviews cases and if the case is going to be costly to the insurance company they find any way they can to drop the insured. People who develop breast cancer and other life threatening illnesses have been dropped and they die. It is happening now.
Unreal, republicans. This woman is your new hero?
Fear tactics. I have a disabled child too. I welcome the support the Obama administration will provide.
and i can see russia from my back window. look at her decisions/her family decisions and you see why this "lady" needs to go fishing-and stay there. remember, "the economy is fine" a couple weeks before the election-as the country was going down the drain. wow-but she stays in the news with all her "problems".
And just think, she would have been a heartbeat away from becoming president. What an ignorant statement which shows she has read nor comprehended the health legislation. In fact, the "Living Will" portion is just that, "for the Living!" If she checks out the facts, this portion was introduced by Republicans....geez!
There she goes again using her children for a political drive/point. Honestly, if she would stop including her personal family business into her political agenda/points, people would leave her family alone. However, she allows them to target, something she knows very well (Hunter Sarah).
This just goes to show everyone that Sarah Palin does not comprehend things that are put into words, word that form coherent sentences, sentences that make paragraphs, paragraphs that create legislation... because she is illiterate.
Therefore, she simply creates unfounded lies in her mind that sound like they would scare her illiterate followers into agreeing with her, manifesting in angry shouting mobs at town hall meetings.
Regardless of your views, 'Death Panel' is an incredibly powerful way to describe the way in which Healthcare will be regulated. I expect we will hear much more of this tag in the months to come...
As usual Palin does not know what the hell she's talking about. I have excellent medical insurance and I'm happy with it. However, there are 48 million Americans who don't have insurance of anykind. The majority of them Working Americans. You so called Americans who call yourselves Christians you should think of others not just yourselves. Everyone deserves health care.
Oh god, how dare this godless liberal inject Sarah Palin's kids into the media!!!!!
Oh, wait...
she's clearly lost what was left of her marbles now
'Leave my children out of it" Palin once again using her disabled child for her own agenda.
no surprise. this woman will sensationalize anything to get her noticed. she is a terrorist of a different kind and just as scary as a car bomber.
All I'll say if this is how Sarah Palin (and her kind) 'read' such DEATH PANELS as being created by this proposed health bill, then I suggest she has more problems with her ability to process written information than I had previously thought possible. Now, will someone PLEASE show her the way to the exit.
If Sarah says it, it is true in my book. She has nothing to gain since she is on no ones payroll. The sneakiness of the Washington Beaurocrats will be revealed.
She's GOT insurance and does not have to change...Trig is in no danger!!
She just doesn't want to have to help pay for someone else's "Trig"...
BTW...on which page did she read about this panel?
I really doubt she sat and read the whole plan and drew her own conclusions! I'm sure she was given talking points! I also wonder how many people actually take her seriously!!
So here she goes again, standing behind a lie and irresponsibly leading with her chin. What job can sensitive little Sarah quit when people start ganging up on Palin for this nonsense and hitting back hard? She has no role! Or maybe she'll threaten to sue anyone who criticizes her and cry on Limbaugh's shoulder. Why is this thing always in front of us?
And who's using her chihldren for political purposes now? You can't have it both ways...villifying the press for going after her kids and then using the press and your kids to 'trash" the attempt to reform the health care system. Using your kids and scare tactics didn't work in the 2008 election process, and it won't work now. Except for your dedicated 20% base.
The stupidity of this person is beyond commentary.
To knowingly go out and spread false information, and to again use her kids for political moves... but hey! Don't talk about her kids!
More conservative nonsense. She does not know nor does anyone know what is in the bill. People, it has not been written yet. I wish CNN would not give Palin any press time. She is not relevant to any discussion.
She is insane. I am sick of the lies she and her crooked party spread. The bill is online. Download it. READ IT! My opinion of the GOP gets lower and lower every time she opens her mouth.
I just can't believe that anyone continues to give credence to this woman. This just shows the amount of ignorance and idiocy in our society in 2009.
Boy! This oughta ease the misguided fears over health care reform. Sarah Palin doesn't write the crazy chain e-mails. She just reads them, then repeats them as truth. Is America really considering this woman in 2012?
This woman is evil. So who is preying on the weakest among us. Sarah who is spreading misinformation again. Another Ethics issue??
The insanity of the right wing has surprised even me. They, including Palin, should be tried for treason due to their hatred for this great nation.
Wake up! Health care is already being rationed. There are plenty of children who are losing out NOW. I know plenty of kids and adults with disabilities who are not receiving the care they need because they don't have jobs or parents with jobs and health care. I know elderly people who cannot get the medecine and treatments they need because they can't afford it. The status quo serves families like the Palins and they are happy with the rest of us losing out.
I wish Palin and other Republican naysayers would engage in a meaningful dialog instead of spreading misinformation. As of yet there is no plan to critize and I doubt that Obama would sign a plan that rationed health care as Palin fears. But, Palin, it is already rationed to mothers and children who do not have a health plan since all those people get is "bandage care" if that. You,Plain, do not seem to care about them as long as you get and keep yours – stingy as always!
Wow. Simply wow. What will they not spin? The fear tactics are tired and old.
I can not believe that people continue to listen to this woman. She takes incoherent -uneducated- fearmongering an all new level. Sightseeing in NYC and meeting with a book publisher??? She can't even speak let alone read...she is going to WRITE a book? The disturbing part is that it will fly off the shelves; maybe not, if her predictions are correct no one will be able to afford it. Ya betcha wink wink.
Will this incompetent ex-governor vanish into wherever she came from. If she cared that much about her people will she have abandoned them mid stream? Has she ever heard of Denmark? Let it be known that even children with worse medical situation than Trig get the best of medical care. She needs to read a lot more please
This is another example of how these right wing loons think. They will try anything inlcuding lie to support big business and their campaign contributors. As far as Palin, she is already a complete failure and a misfortune for our country that she is given any platform on which to speak. What a fool!!!!
That about what I would expect her to say. She knows better but instead of telling what the bill really says she would rather cause more rioting.
People need to stop listening to people like her and fox news oh,and cnn' own lous dobbs and read for themselves. The people mostly women are making themselves look like fools. I sure would wouldnt want my picture all over the place looking stupid over something someone told me and not what I knew for myself.
These people want listen and want let anyone else listen. That way no one get answers to important question.
What planet are you living on Sarah? Health Care is rationed out now by insurance companies. Has been for years! And as a mother with a child that has mental health issues, I can tell you it's like pulling teeth to get something done. BTW, the sick, elderly, and the disabled have been suffering for years! Your tring to make it sound like everyone has first class health coverge.
If she really believes that "The only path to lower costs, she said, was less treatment.", she's even less intelligent than I suspected. People without health insurance end up using urgent care clinics and hospital emergency rooms instead of seeing their family doctor, wait longer before they seek medical care and end up costing taxpayers much more than they would have paid had the patient had health insurance.
Universal health care works in other countries such as the Netherlands which has a longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate than the U.S.
And don't forget Medicare, a 50 year old single payer. government administered program that is proven to work.
Wow, exploiting her downs-afflicted baby for political gain after accusing the Democrats of going after her kids. What a great person.
Has anyone ever seen the movie John Q with Denzel Washington? If not watch it. After watching it I'm sure you will think twice about the great health insurance you have.
This lady uses her children when it is convenient
If Palin was so concerned about the sick, disabled and the elderly having health care then why didn't she speak up when Bush was in power when he cut benefits from these same groups. As a Repurb all she knows how to do is spread fear with no real suggestions on health care other than making sure her rich supporters gets theirs for nothing. Anyway, she has to sell a book and that's all she really cares about at this time.
You only need 1/2 a brain to see how irrational this is.
And just who does Madam Palin thinks get left out of access to heallth care now? The elderly, the sick, the disabled...good gods, does she think before she speaks? Ever?
Before I became disabled, I had never been without health care coverage, but the past decade has shown me just how horrible it is to need health care and be unable to afford it. I guarantee you neither Sarah Palin, nor any immediate family member of hers will ever, ever lack for access to proper, let alone minimal, health care, especially not as it stands. What is she scared of? That all Americans will have access to health care under Obama's plan? I think that's what truly frightens her, and her elitest GOP followers.
This woman has no business speaking on any more weighty a subject than her beauty pageant days.
WOW, it seems everybody is against the reform because not that it doesn't work or benefit the people but because they CAN NOT let Obama succeed!
It amazes me!
It's amazing how conservatives distort and lie. They are not good for our country.
She only left out one fact: The FOR-PROFIT health insurance companies make this decision for us now. In the form of denying re-imbursement and dropping customers that are too ill for their business plans. Only they due it in the name of the "free market". So that makes it OK, I guess.
For-profit companies should have one, and only one purpose: to maximize their profit margins. Whether they are selling cars or insurance, it doesn't matter. Otherwise they are not doing their job.
Once more red-staters start finding they can't pay their medical bills with the current for-profit insurance system, they will start turning on nitwits like Palin, who are themselves very wealthy and are only using this issue (and guns, religion and abortion) to maintain political power.
Mr Obama – please tell your followers to stop the hate speech and stop the violence toward those who dare to disagree with you. This is not Cuba or Kenya Mr. President, this is America. We will not be intimidated by you or your violent devotees.
The America Palin knows and loves, already does decide who lives and dies. The haves get health care through their employers, but increasingly that perk is going away.
The rest can get care through the ER, because they can't be turned away, but it is too little and too late, and we all pay too much for this after the fact emergency care for patients who should have been seen sooner.
Palin's kid was never at risk, but there are people in Alaska that are dying because they are denied care.
More utter lunacy from the Wasilla Wackjob. How in the world does the press continue to air this woman's fringe–and completely counterfactual–views? Why don't you guys spend a little more time debunking the outright lies and nonsense being disseminated by the GOP about the proposed health care plan so that we can have a little intellectual honesty in this debate? In other words, how about doing your jobs for once?
I won't hold my breath.
Mrs. Palin needs to stop and think about things here. I find it ridiculous that while under the Bush regime many Americans including myself were not good enough to receive medical attention because of affordability. I am sick of her and wish she would just shut up and go away.
But then, her own party is embarassed of her and she knows it. When she can present herself as nothing to hide with her own ethics issues, then maybe she might establish some credibility instead of being an incessant bunch of noise.
Same old republican tactics. They never debate, they never offer solutions, they just come up with bald faced lies like "Obama is coming to murder my children." This nonsense combined with the fake outrage of the Tea Baggers and Birthers who do nothing but shout down people who are interested in improving things shows what a dead end group this is. I still hold out hope that one day they will grow up and join the rest of America in taking responsibility for making things better.
Blahblah using the bible for the wrong reasons.holier than thou.atleast Obama is trying not like u and the rest of the Robert Mugabe led republican party and warmongering team .some of us t praying that republicans should not see the Whitehouse for the next 16 yrs.Hillary Clinton will be the first woman president in America .we are still praying that God should not allow your dividing attitude to succeed
Death Panel? This contention is so typically Republican that it would be laughable if so many didn't actually believe it. Once again a Republican doesn't have the intelligence to come up with anything substantial and resorts to fear mongering and once again, the republican sheep will listen. What a disgrace.
look who's always the first one to bring her family into the dialogue yet always whining to leave her family out of it.
Sarah darling, where did you get the comic book version of the healthcare bill? So far, there are multiple version of health care reform and none have made it into law. So, again, were do you get this MISINFORMATION? As a leader, I would think you would consider the consquences of your actions and take statesmanlike actions. We have to solve this together, but so far, you have not proposed a solution to any of the problems facing this country. Please go back to Alaska.
And she left out World Peace.
Does this woman ever know what she is talking about? She is woefully uninformed and wouldn't know the truth it it hit her in the face.
What a whack job! There is no such thing as a death panel. Once again Palin looks like a fool.
Why is the media still covering this wanabe. She has had 15 minutes fame. Her opinion is no more valid or substantial than anybody on the street. Let her die in peace.
Caribou Barbie and the entire GOP should stop fearmongering and spreading lies about Obama's health plan.
This might be the most ridiculous claim I have ever heard. Where does she get her info?
Well, there ya go again, Sarah!
You have constantly whined and moaned about the media hounding your family and kids, but you seem to have no problem again thrusting them into the limelight when it fits your political agenda.
Please go away, Sarah. This country has had enough of you!
Shouldn't this headline read, "Sarah Palin Spreads Lies Regarding the Nation's Proposed Health Care Plan"?
why wont this woman just go away. palin and bachmann are making up garbage and using the same republican tactic of fear. we did not vote for palin in 2008, why is she still talking. sarah, just go stare at russia from your house.
Here I thought we had heard the end of this Palin thing, I wonder why she don't go soak her head in a lake?
How can anyone be this delusional? What a stupid person Silly Sarah is!
Oh, Sarah. When will you actually have something substantive to say instead of just using your tired melodramatic and/or folksy rhetoric to incite the masses? As a woman, a Christian, and a mother, I am disgusted by you and weary of your presence in the media spotlight. Please shut up, go home, and do something productive, like actually BE a mother to your children.
More brainless words from sarah palin and the gop in general ,your party lost why dont you get this picture the american people dont like your protecting the mega health care and hmo corperations politics at the expense of middle class and poorer americans. you republicans fool no one just yourselfs .
I live in Canada and it great that when I get sick I don't have to worry if I have the money to be treated. Also considering who said the above comment, all I can say is I glad she did not become Vice President.
Will somebody stick a sock in this Lipstick Pig's mouth, please. She is such a stupid person. Her mother should have drowned her at birth.
Besides being one of the worlds dumpest people this women can't even read.
Palin is scary, and continues to show what a bad choice McCain made in selecting her for his VP candidate. Honest discourse on legitimate problems becomes impossible when idiots like Palin make dumb and inaccurate statements. Grow up, GOP.
This is a complete joke! Sarah Palin has no idea what she is talking about when it comes to health care reform. She is reading republican talking points. These words and phrases are being shared by other GOP leaders to scare Americans. These mobs that are disrupting our Town Hall meetings and our democracy feed off of this divisive, fear mongering rhetoric. We deserve an honest discussion about health care reform.
She obviously doesn't comprehend the word "optiional" or "consultation". Besides, I seriously doubt that she has health insurance problems like the rest of us do.
Enough is enough. Just stop covering her. As FactCheck.org points out, this crap that she and other Republicans are pushing is simply a lie. Sarah Palin is a liar. Why not do a much more forceful piece on the legislation instead of pushing this tabloid trash?