GOP Senator: Palin’s ‘Death Panel’ Fib is ‘Nuts’
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 9:52 am
Ezra Klein talks to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), the senator who wants end-of-life planning in the health care bill, and who inadvertently inspired Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), then conservative blogger Sarah Palin, to allege that the bill would put old people to death.
I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin’s web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts.
A Republican senator saying that his party’s last vice presidential nominee is “nuts” when talking about the health care bill? I’m surprised this isn’t getting more play.
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18 Comments
Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 2:07 pm
Uh, Palin never mentioned euthanasia. Stop making things up.
Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
The bills never mentioned “death panels”. Why is she making things up?
Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
The woman said it all the day she resigned with her tossed salad word speech…”The best thing I can do for Alaska is resign”…
No truer words were ever spoken by that idiot.
May she study the world, world leaders, what the actual senate does and practice finding her “g”.
Maybe you can get “Hooked on Phonic's” and practice by golly gee wiz..can I call ya Joe?
Wink wink……go fishin Sarah and take care of your own children for a change.
Where is that “death panel” listed in any of the versions of the proposed bill anyway?
Page number please…. I'll wait.
Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 7:29 pm
No, she said her baby and her parents would have to justify their continued existence in front of Obama “Death Panels”. Gosh gee whiz, i wonder what she could have POSSIBLY meant by that.
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Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 11:34 pm
Johnny is losing my vote. HE is not for having anything to do with this bill.
Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 11:40 pm
Thats where managed care, end of life, euthanasia advocacy and Roe vs Wade take you, effectively to 'death panels' where someone else decides your worth and determines whether you are worthy of care. We are devaluing life at both ends first, where the victims are powerless and often voiceless, and closing on the middle.
Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 11:54 pm
Wow. Do you think about what you're gonna say before you say it? Just curious.
Comment posted August 12, 2009 @ 1:57 am
Well, I not too thoroughly, then it wouldn't be any fun:) In any case, I do think that's where we're headed.
Comment posted August 12, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
First appointment to Death Panel.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/…
Comment posted August 12, 2009 @ 6:29 pm
I agree that we shouldn't pass a bill that we can't pay for. I also think health care reform is long overdue, and that some government oversight or management is not necessarily a bad thing. Private insurers already are making decisions about who does and does not receive care, and there are laws protecting these companies from even having to explain their decisions. An agency which is accountable to the public seems more trustworthy than a company that is, at the end of the day, only concerned with the bottom line.
Oh, and as an aside – when you talk about this administration's spending, let's not forget that we're coming out of the most financially irresponsible eight years in this nation's history; it will take time to restore Clinton-era budget surplus, especially given the amount of money being spent to clean up Bush's economic disaster.
Comment posted August 12, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
Given that you don't live in Georgia and weren't going to vote for Johnny anyway, I'm sure Johnny is apoplectic over your decision.
Comment posted August 15, 2009 @ 11:51 am
No reasonable person likes what Bush did with deficit spending. It just the Obama is taking up the deficit spending and multiplying it several times. At no time did Bush spend 4x revenues.
Bush's tax cuts increased government revenues. Do you know what the Laffer curve is?
On health care, what we need is some root cause analysis of what drives costs. I can think of several candidates; Health corporation greed, Liability and ambulance chasing lawyers, The AMA protecting bad Dr.s and artificially controlling the supply of Dr.s, and yes insurance companies.
I have had the lowest cost health coverage when I was a member of a cost sharing group, that was not insurance. It paid much better on claims than any health insurance I have had. The problem is that the state insurance boards are hostile to such groups.
This government plan lack creativity or insight. Typically.
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Comment posted August 29, 2009 @ 1:50 am
But were you even considering voting for Johnny?
Comment posted September 1, 2009 @ 5:54 am
Sarah Palin is nuts, but like her “also ran” ranking in the Miss Alaska, she is runner-up to Michelle Bachmann! They are both embarssments to my gender and it is disheartening that she has such a following of fringe people who are just as uninformed and easily led. If Ms. Palin would check her on the record pronouncements, she would find that she agreed that people should be able to have the option to discuss “end of life” preparation. She is a fraud and an opportunist.
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