Taking her talking points from the right-wing wackosphere Sarah Palin has deemed President Obama's attempts to assure that every American has health care coverage "downright evil." Posting via facebook, Ms. Palin's first online comments since becoming the "former Governor of Alaska" read like a rumor-mongering screed.
From Palin's facebook page:
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? 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.
Of course President Obama's health care plan includes no such "death panel," but Ms. Palin and many of her supporters aren't really interested in sharing the truth. Instead of debating ideas for legitimate health care coverage, Palin and her ilk would rather throw mud and disseminate mis-information. This is about scoring political points and rallying a base of support so that when it comes time to declare her candidacy for 2012 she will have built up enough points to ingratiate herself with the true believers of the Republican Party.
I was wondering what Ms. Palin was going to do now that she doesn't have to worry about banning books from Alaska libraries...and now we know!
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