Palin goes for the jugular

[ericire12]

The barracuda smells blood in the water:



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Troubling Questions Remain About Obama's Health Care Plan

As I noted in my statement last week, nationalized health care inevitably leads to rationing. There is simply no way to cover everyone and hold down the costs at the same time. The rationing system proposed by one of President Obama’s key health care advisors is particularly disturbing. I’m speaking of the “Complete Lives System” advocated by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the president’s chief of staff. President Obama has not yet stated any opposition to the “Complete Lives System,” a system which, if enacted, would refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential. [1] Why the silence from the president on this aspect of his nationalization of health care? Does he agree with the “Complete Lives System”? If not, then why is Dr. Emanuel his policy advisor? What is he advising the president on? I just learned that Dr. Emanuel is now distancing himself from his own work and claiming that his “thinking has evolved” on the question of rationing care to benefit the strong and deny the weak. [2] How convenient that he disavowed his own work only after the nature of his scholarship was revealed to the public at large.

*Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is Rahm Emanuel's brother and Obama's top health care advisor

*Glenn Beck has been going after this for a couple of days now. I will say, that if you are not watching Glenn Beck on a daily basis you are doing yourself a disservice.





Exit Question: Will the media cover this with the same ferocity as they covered Palin's "Death Panels" analogy comment? In my opinion, they kinda have to. The barracuda baited them in and now they are gonna be dinner.  

Tiny Fay In her best Sarah Palin voice: "Oh, dont ya know... I'm just an silly little girl from Wasilla. I dont know too much bout big city politics.... But I can see Russia from my house!"

[tombogan03884]

 Giving names like that to your child should be a beating offense, at least Rahm is easy to spell.

[Kid Shelleen]

I'm likin Sarah more every day.

She keeps telling it like it is and she has no fear. She may not become President, but she'll certainly shake up the status quo.

She is a strong voice of opposition to the BHO socialist regime.

Get 'em Sarah!!!

[m25operator]

She so far,has been the shot in the arm that we need, she got us going, last time, and I hope will do it again. We need passionate people, not talking heads.

[tt11758]

She so far,has been the shot in the arm that we need, she got us going, last time, and I hope will do it again. We need passionate conservative people, not talking heads RINOs.

Fixed it for you.   

[Sponsor]

[ericire12]

Fixed it for you.   

Amen

[ericire12]

Palin delivers another headshot:



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First, we cannot have health care reform without tort reform. The two are intertwined. For example, one supposed justification for socialized medicine is the high cost of health care. As Dr. Scott Gottlieb recently noted, “If Mr. Obama is serious about lowering costs, he'll need to reform the economic structures in medicine—especially programs like Medicare.” [1] Two examples of these “economic structures” are high malpractice insurance premiums foisted on physicians (and ultimately passed on to consumers as “high health care costs”) and the billions wasted on defensive medicine.

Dr. Weinstein makes good points, points completely ignored by President Obama. Dr. Weinstein details the costs that our out-of-control tort system are causing the health care industry and notes research that “found that liability reforms could reduce defensive medicine practices, leading to a 5 percent to 9 percent reduction in medical expenditures without any effect on mortality or medical complications.”

You would think that any effort to reform our health care system would include tort reform, especially if the stated purpose for Obama’s plan to nationalize our health care industry is the current high costs.

So I have new questions for the president: Why no legal reform? Why continue to encourage defensive medicine that wastes billions of dollars and does nothing for the patients? Do you want health care reform to benefit trial attorneys or patients?

[blackwolfe]

That is a question that bHo will not answere.

[tombogan03884]

 What do they define as "Defensive medicine". I think I know, but I'm not positive.
How would these relate to Frisco's situation with infection ?

[WatchManUSA]

What do they define as "Defensive medicine". I think I know, but I'm not positive.
How would these relate to Frisco's situation with infection ?

I think these are typically diagnostic procedures that doctors may do to protect them from a malpractice lawsuit.  Extra lab tests, x-rays or MRI scans that might not otherwise be necessary.