Sarah Palin Is Correct About Death Panels

PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'

Yes PolitiFact.com did produce a "lie of the year". The lie of the year is misquoting and spinning what Sarah Palin said about "Death Panels".

Let me set the record straight. I will provide a link and references to page numbers in the house bill HR 3200.

Obama care does contain provisions for panels which are in effect death panels... Sarah Palin Is Correct Palin is correct they just are not called death panels but a government committee.

HR 3200 House Bill Obamacare

Sarah Palin:

"The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. 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."

She said obama's "bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgement of their level of productivity in society". The Title IV quality: Subtitle A says the cost of proposed treatment will be divided by the remaining years of your statistical life expectancy. If your per year life cost exceeds the state mandated threshold your won't get health care. So Sara Palin was correct. Sarah Palin was totally correct. Politifact.com did produce the lie of the year not Sara Palin.


See TITLE IV–QUALITY: Subtitle A–Comparative Effectiveness Research. “Comparative Effectiveness Research” means that they will take the cost of your proposed treatment and divide that by the remaining years of your statistical life expectancy. If your per-year life cost exceeds the state-mandated threshhold, you won’t get the health care. Are you a military veteran over 59 who risked everything for your country? No heart by-pass surgery for you, you expensive old goat!

(You ask what is a "death panel". I will tell you.)

The "health care" bill provides for mandatory euthanasia counseling for senior citizens every five years AND whenever they receive a diagnosis of terminal illness (page 425, House version of the bill — H.R.3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009).

But we are not just talking about those very near the end of life. The specific wording in the bill is:

….if there is a significant change in the health condition of the individual, including diagnosis of a chronic, progressive, life-limiting disease, a life-threatening or terminal diagnosis or life-threatening injury, or upon admission to a skilled nursing facility, a long-term care facility (as defined by the Secretary), or a hospice program.

Just a “life-limiting” disease is enough to trigger the state’s interest in you. Down’s Syndrome? Muscular dystrophy? Alzheimer’s? Senile dementia? You could be encouraged to “go home” early.

But even if you are in fairly good shape, and you are past middle age, you have cause for concern.

See TITLE IV–QUALITY: Subtitle A–Comparative Effectiveness Research. “Comparative Effectiveness Research” means that they will take the cost of your proposed treatment and divide that by the remaining years of your statistical life expectancy. If your per-year life cost exceeds the state-mandated threshhold, you won’t get the health care. Are you a military veteran over 59 who risked everything for your country? No heart by-pass surgery for you, you expensive old goat!

(I would say this is a DEATH PANEL that decides if you are WORTHY OF LIFE using an amount obama has decided it will cost the state. The older you are the less the government DEATH PANEL will pay out for your medical need. This is a fact. It is not assuming anything. I talked with IDIOTS that deny this is in the bill. They say the government would never do this. I am surrounded by a vast number of IDIOTS who deny this is in the obama bill. Story Reports)

• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)

• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

( NO APPEALS. THE GOVERNMENT COMMITTE OR DEATH PANEL RULING IS FINAL, PAGE 30 of PDF House Bill 3200)