Sarah Palin has weighed in on the the midnight mischief the Dems were up to last week, and she correctly points out that the allegedly non-existent death panel is still in their “reform” bill under a new alias—-Independent Payment Advisory Board:
Senator Jim DeMint spotted one shocking revelation regarding the section in the [Senate] bill describing … a panel of bureaucrats charged with cutting health care costs on the backs of patients – also known as rationing.
The old name for the death panel was the Independent Medicare Advisory Board. And, with their characteristic chutzpah, the Dems have brazenly kept it in the bill AND rendered it virtually immune from future repeal by a more sane Congress:
Reid and friends have changed the rules of the Senate so that the section of the bill dealing with this board can’t be repealed or amended without a 2/3 supermajority vote … Democrats are protecting this rationing ‘death panel’ from future change with a procedural hurdle.
Hmm … Now why would they do that?
Could it be because bureaucratic rationing is one important way Democrats want to ‘bend the cost curve and keep health care spending down?
Yep. No matter how many lies the President and congressional Dems tell, this hive of unaccountable apparatchiks will fill the same niche that N.I.C.E. fills in Great Britain. It will ration health care by refusing to pay for anything it deems wasteful (like cancer drugs).
So, it’s pretty obvious that President Obama and congressional Democrats are determined to impose rationing on us no matter how much the public hates this idea. They think they can shove this down our throats and get away with it. Palin has an app for that:
This is about politics, not health care. Americans don’t want this bill. Americans don’t like this bill. Washington has stopped listening to us. But we’re paying attention, and 2010 is coming.
Saddle up!
UPDATE:
Ed Morrissey explains the mechanics of Reid’s procedural skulduggery:
I just talked to a source on Capitol Hill … the bill sets up a supermajority threshold of 67 votes to bring accountability to IMAB decisions, and the rule on being in or out of order can get waived at 60 votes. However, as this battle shows, even getting to 60 is almost an impossibility, let alone 67. Clearly Reid wants to put accountability out of reach with these radical propositions.
Time to throw the bums out.
UPDATE:
It looks like Sullivan has exhumed a hopelessly disingenuous post about the “death panel” issue. These people will never stop lying about this. They’re too lazy to do their homework, and too smug to listen to anyone who has actually looked into the facts. The Dems will continue to prevaricate, and the Obots will continue to swear by their lies. Banishing the Dems to outer darkness is the only cure.
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