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Politics : Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy of Death, Disease, Depravit -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (644)	10/29/2016 1:00:15 PM
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Now we are aborting the elderly By Donald Sensing I'm so old I can remember when 2008's Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin said that federalization of health care would lead to a government bureaucrats effectively functioning as "death panels" in deciding who would get medical treatment, or not, and how much. Naturally, she was viciously attacked by the Left (which knows no other way to do it). In response, she quite properly doubled down. But of course she was right, as even Democrat members of Congress came to admit. And it was confirmed by no less a figure than Howard Dean. Was Sarah Palin right about death panels in Obamacare? Howard Dean, and some other Democrats, seem to think so. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, took a lot of flak four years ago for suggesting that government-imposed healthcare rationing by what she deemed death panels would be one likely outcome of the Affordable Care Act. And while Palin and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean couldn’t be more opposite on the political spectrum, he apparently agrees with her now. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Dean — who is also a medical doctor — called for abolishing what Palin originally insisted was a death panel. “One major problem [with Obamacare] is the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them. There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system. However, rate setting — the essential mechanism of the IPAB — has a 40-year track record of failure… getting rid of the IPAB is something Democrats and Republicans ought to agree on.” Dean has been joined by other prominent Democrats ... . According to Investors Business Daily, Dr. Donald Berwick, the former head of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, previously acknowledged that “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”But nothing to see here, move along now: Insurers use California's assisted-suicide law to deny treatment for terminal patients About one-year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state’s assisted-suicide bill into law. It fully went into effect this June, with the opening of the first clinic. While there is no data on the number of California assisted-suicides, Oregon recorded over 130 last year as part of their legalized physician-assisted death program. Now, one young mother says her insurance company denied her coverage for chemotherapy treatment after originally agreeing to provide the fiscal support for it, but indicated it would be willing to pay for assisted suicide instead. . . . “As soon as this law was passed – and you see it everywhere, when these laws are passed – patients fighting for a longer life end up getting denied treatment, because this will always be the cheapest option.” Packer attends a support group for terminally ill patients. She said legally sanctioned suicide has changed the tone of the meetings, which used to be “positive and encouraging.” With patients under new societal pressure to kill themselves, she said meetings “became negative, and it started consuming people. And then they said, ‘You know what? I wish I could just end it.’”That's the Democrat Left for you. *Not content with abortion on demand at any* time during pregnancy, they have turned their sights to the other end of the life span. They want to abort the elderly and the other infirm.** http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/10/now-we-are-aborting-elderly.html