Death Panels do Exist, Conservatives Support Them
While many conservatives have been bleating out about the supposed Death Panels that are included in “the bill” (which is an inaccurate account of the legislative process), they’ve ignored the fact that Death Panels do exist already. There are no provisions that support a belief that there are Death Panels in any of the bills for healthcare reform, but insurance companies have had them for years.
The false Death Panel rumors became general knowledge to the public after Sarah Palin, in all of her ignorant god-fearing glory, spoke these fittingly ignorant words:
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.
These insane, fictional comments didn’t originate in Sarah Palin’s mind. How could anything originate in a barren waste-land? They instead came from the fear mongering and false research and evidence gleamed by Betsy McCaughey, who incidentally couldn’t handle a real debate with Jon Stewart early this week.
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McCaughey’s appearance in the spot light apparently didn’t sit well with the Cantor Medical where she sat on the Board of Directors, because she resigned the following day.
Many conservatives have also been bleeting on about the articles written by Dr. Emmanuel in which he talks about euthanasia and the allocation of healthcare, neither of which have been honestly talked about by the Right Wing Nutjob punditry. While they’ve termed Dr. Emmanuel “Doctor Death” if anyone had bothered to read either of his essays you would notice that he is completely against legalized euthanasia in the U.S. Never mind reality, the conservatives seem to say, he’s related to President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and we must find some sort of evil plot within the White House to demonize President Obama with. Never mind reality, god and insurers are on their side.
So, while Right Wing Bleating Machines continue their unwarranted ranting and raving, while they continue to assist in the destruction of the American middle class, while they continue to fight for the right of insurance companies to rape the American public, and while real Americans fight for the healthcare reform that America deserves remember that there are actually Death Panels in existence. They aren’t run by the government, they’re run by capitalism’s beloved insurance companies.
So, let’s demonize insurance companies who have the sole monopoly on death panels. Your comparaison of an insurance company denial of payments lacks any logic. Insurance companies deny payments for procedures, mostly those that have already been performed. The government death panel will deny treatment without an option to pay for it yourself.
There is no government Death Panel. Yes, we should demonize any industry that seeks to make profit by not caring for people. Insurance companies do no one any good except themselves; they intentionally lie and cheat people when a person needs them the most.