In 2009, Republicans and pretended to want health care reform, they were stalling to tie it up in committee long enough to get to their summer town hall meetings and turn on the lies. Chief among those lies originated from Mooseolini, who claimed that ObamaCare had death panels to kill senior citizens by withholding needed care. See based it on the provision to cover end of life counseling coverage included in the bill. It had been placed there at the request of a Republican. Well, albeit slightly modified, the death panel BS is back.
On Sunday, CNN’s State of the Union invited Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus to offer what turned out to be little more than a dump of Republican talking points opposing the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare is “European, socialist style-type health care,” Priebus told CNN. He even claimed that Republicans — who have now voted to repeal Obamacare’s protections for people with preexisting conditions 40 different times — are the true defenders of people who are unable to obtain health insurance without health reform. And then he dropped the death panels line — “what people don’t want are government panels deciding whether something’s medically necessary.”…
…Priebus’ decision to drop this line without any context whatsoever represents an innovation in Republican messaging against providing health care to millions of Americans. The “death panel” smear originally emerged on former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) Facebook page [Mooseolini delinked], and was widely viewed at the time as an attack on a bipartisan proposal to enable Medicare to cover voluntary end-of-life counseling. After that proposal was dropped from the bill that ultimately became the Affordable Care Act, several Republicans — including Palin once again — retconned the term “death panels” to refer to a cost-cutting measure known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board or IPAB.
Although the IPAB is empowered to take some measures to bring down Medicare costs if those costs grow faster than a certain rate, it is expressly forbidden to take any action that might qualify as rationing care…
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The ObamaCare deal panel rumor was thoroughly debunked years ago, but Republicans love to use projection to blame Democrats for what Republicans and those they represent do. How many times have you heard about people dying because they could get no coverage or because Big Insurance death panels decides a completely unrelated preexisting condition was a good enough excuse not to provide care? There are other death panels, consisting of Republican politicians. People are dying, because Republicans, at the state level have refused federal money to expand Medicaid. Before the Brewerstan Death Angel, Jan Brewer caned in on Medicaid expansion, she cut the program to give a tax cut to millionaires. In so doing, she cut at least two people, already scheduled for life-saving transplants, who subsequently died. Now how many times have you heard about lives being saved, because ObamaCare outlawed those Big Insurance abuses? Lots, I bet!RepubliCare, not ObamaCare, is the health policy with the built in death benefit: Pay or Die!
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