A “death panel” doesn’t bring tea and cookies. Well, Obama’s death panel might bring him tea and cookies for their death panel book club meetings, but that’s not tea and cookies for the rest of us!
She said a “death panel” was going to decide something about her child. A “death panel” was going to decide something regarding her child. You can’t get around that. She wanted her readers to gasp in horror and fear about a “DEATH PANEL” deciding something about HER CHILD. Not a coverage panel or a care panel or a health care panel or an eligibility panel or just a panel. A DEATH PANEL.
Yes, to reiterate, and re-reiterate, and re-re-reiterate. You’ve said that, shut the fuck up about it. Nobody gives a goddamned how literally you want to read the title, especially because you obviously haven’t even read the OP. Hint: there’s more content there.
I stand by the title, for reasons explained above in posts you didn’t bother to read.
If the government wants efficient death panels, staff them with Texans.
Today’s death panels are called juries, and a death sentence seems to remarkably prolong the lives of those on death row. So perhaps we should be sentencing murderers to HMOs, and sick people to death.
If Terry Schiavo was a vegetable, what exactly is meat? This question has serious implications for Sarah Palin and her retarded vagina.
Then, seriously, you are pretty much marking yourself as someone who can’t add anything to political discussions. Politics is all about insinuations and dogwhistling. That you can’t see it means you’re missing half of the meaning behind what people are saying.
Wrong. I am “marking myself” as someone who is tired of outrageous bullshit claims about people they don’t like.
It’s just plain stupid to think that it’s OK to say anything about a political opponent just becaue they are a political opponent. Cricetus could have chose different words for the title but chose to go with an untrue statement. I think that’s bad. So I told him about it.
…no, that’s not what he said at all. However, people who need medical treatment to live, such as those with diabetes, impaired kidney function, or about a billion other fucking conditions, will die without health care. It’s just that simple. Former governor Palin is insinuating that her baby with Downs Syndrome would be judged by a medical review panel as being not worth the expense of the care necessary to maintain a decent quality of life. Withholding necessary medical care from a person is the same as killing him.
How can you read the quote in the original post and not call her a liar? There will be no death squads, and if there were death squads they would not be in charge of deciding who’s valuable enough to society to deserve health care. Palin is strongly implying that her baby would die because of Obama’s health care reforms. What the fuck is your problem?
Yes, and then you told me about it again, and again, and again, and you said I was lying about other things, and I showed that I’d provided direct evidence for them in post #1, so you weaseled around a bit and started harping on the title again. You’ve made it clear that you don’t like the title. I’ve made it clear that I don’t give a shit, and I give less of a shit every time you post because I can see what a smear on this discussion you really are.
I haven’t read the last couple of pages, but in case no-one’s said it:
Universal healthcare never prevents people from taking out health insurance and/or going private.
It’s something that exists in addition to the existing system.
It can help millions that otherwise cannot afford health care. Just maybe not all of them.