Most of the legal challenges to Obamacare, the president's signature legislation that allows the federal government to take over health-care decision-making, focus on the "unconstitutional individual mandate" that defines sitting in one's living room as "interstate commerce" and demands the purchase of government-approved health insurance.
However, there's a new round of alarms developing over what critics have described as the ultimate "death panel," concerns that have been raised because Barack Obama himself suggested giving an already-unaccountable board more authority.
It's the idea of Obama's Independent Payment Advisory Board, which is one of 150 board and commissions established by Obamacare but is the most notorious because it would be made up of 15 Obama-appointed individuals and would dictate Medicare policy affecting millions of seniors and disabled Americans with essentially no congressional or judicial oversight.
It was during Obama's recent speech in which he condemned a plan to cut the deficit by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., he referenced Obamacare and its critics.
"What they'll say is, well, you know what, that will never work because it's government imposed and it's bureaucracy and it's government takeover and there are death panels," the president said. "I still don't entirely understand the whole 'death panel' concept. But I guess what they're saying is somehow some remote bureaucrat will be deciding your health care for you."
Obama then specifically said his panel's authority should kick in at an earlier time than it already is scheduled to become the law.
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5 comments:
Why do we need more death panels, we already have plenty...the private insurance carriers.
Because King Obama ordered it Servant...
More government-speak...."...I GUESS what they're saying is some remote bureaucrat will be deciding your health care"...hmmmm....while that is true, he (obama) wants to couch it terms of "guessing" that its the Republicans who are saying that and implying that its not really true (when he KNOWS it is)....further, he's TECHNICALLY speaking the truth, because "health care" implies you will be getting some of THAT, when in fact, these "boards" will be in place to insure you DON'T....you can bet that a senior citizen who needs a heart transplant (and who has paid taxes his entire life) will be told its not cost effective surgery (sorry!!), but the 35 year old welfare recipient who has eaten themselves up to 400 pounds and has never worked a day in their life will get all the latest medical treatments available for their diabetes and their heart trouble. I KNOW thats going to make some liberal obama-loving democrat mad that I said that, but thats EXACTLY how its going to go....
Turn medicare over to private insurance companies and you will see real death panels. They will constantly deny treatment causing early death.
Once again Drew just refuses to admit that the democrats are the problem. And I guess that loony Sarah Palin was just fearmongering when she told everyone about the death panels.
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