Palin defends “death panels” statement

14 August 2009 | Category: Top Story, World News

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin fired back at President Barack Obama and democratic lawyers and defended her claim that the Democratic health care proposal would create “death panels”. On her Facebook page, Palin wrote:

“Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system, these ‘unproductive’ members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.”

Palin defends death panels statementAll this after Democratic lawmakers responded heavily against Sarah Palin days for suggesting that her own son, Trig, would have to face a bureaucratic panel to get access to the new health care proposal because he was born with Down syndrome. Palid stated:

“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.”

Palin defends death panels statement
Palin defends death panels statement
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  • Beverly

    This country who voted President Obama in are being sucked into the Republican parties scare and control tactics again. Too many of you aren’t using your heads and are listening to people like Sarah Palin who are just using this to get her foot in further toward the White House. Of course they want you to be afraid and use words and phrases like “death panel”. They are just trying to get the country to not accept health care so that they can get keep it from being passed and then when it isn’t passed they will declare to the world “We are the victor’s and saved you and grandma”. The Republican party are the “Big Brothers” and have been for the last 8 yrs and beyond. They have lost control and are the spoiled little brats that can’t get their way and will do whatever and say whatever and use whomever to get their way and to control. I am just one of the little people in the country, from the south and I am caucasian who believe we wanted change and picked the right person to give it to us. We need healthcare and it is the rich Republicans who are trying to keep Grandma and I from having it. Many people will die without it. Are you too stupid, too self centered and selfish you almighty Republican party to understand. President Obama has only been in office for 8 months and has already began turning the economy and country around. Whether you are Republican or Democratic, stop listening to all the political bull that people like Sarah Palin put out. After all she abandoned the Alaskan people. It speaks volumes of her credibility and the people that support her.