Remember how Republicans terrorized their base over the Obamacare "Death Panels"?

[LaMouffette]

From the Atlantic (May 2014):

A "death panel," if you'll recall, is the idea that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, includes provisions that allows federal officials to evaluate and decide whether an individual is "worthy of health care." If these officials decide that someone is not worthy of care, the thinking goes, then they are essentially condemning the person to death. None of that's really true, of course.

[link:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/death-panels-will-be-sarah-palins-greatest-legacy/371888/|

How prescient of them to have foreseen the looming specter of death panels! Turns out, the death panels, which they feared would lay waste to the nation's grandmothers, was another case of Republican projection, since it is now Republican governors like Ron DeathSentence who are imposing death sentences on not our grandparents alone, but on everyone, including children, by refusing to mandate masks, vaccines, or vaccine passports.

They are the death panels they warned us about.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Everything is projection. Whatever they accuse others of doing is what they are doing or plan to do.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Insurance companies already have death panels and always have...

they're the ones who decide if a treatment or procedure is worth covering.

[LaMouffette]

3. Yup! Remember Michael Moore's film "Sicko"?

I wonder when insurance companies are going to start refusing to pay for unvaxxed people's Covid hospital stays?

[Mad_Machine76]

4. Wasn't that once labled

"Lie of the Year" too?

[multigraincracker]

5. Blast from the past.

[LaMouffette]

6. That is excellent! First time I've seen it. I think you're onto something: Everyone, even

the Republican base, likes a good laugh. We need hilarious commercials like this on TV to expose what the Republicans are up to. They will laugh, and although they might consciously have a knee-jerk reaction against the message, the idea might get lodged in their subconscious.