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Joe Conason
Trumpcares Medicaid Cutbacks Will Bring The Real Death Panels
May 8, 2017 11:47 pm
The real death panels are coming.
Back in 2009, during the shrill hours of debate over the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin warned us solemnly that defenseless Americans will have to stand in front of Obamas death panels so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care.
Many a snooty elitist dismissed those ominous Facebook pronouncements by the former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee, but she was hardly alone in uttering such predictions. Palin and many others on the right claimed that President Obamas struggle to expand health coverage considered a human right in most of the modern world was really a nefarious plot to save money by rationing care. All too soon, some tribunal in Washington, D.C. was bound to condemn Grandma to a cruel and untimely doom to save a few bucks.
Eight years later, we know that while Obamacare needs improvement, we have achieved the highest health insurance enrollment in our history and there is nothing in sight that resembles a death panel.
Not yet, anyway. But severe rationing of medical care, leading to premature illness and many more deaths, is the most likely effect of the Republican repeal and replace bill, known officially as the American Health Care Act, that the House passed last week. Although Republican Congressional leaders pushed Trumpcare through without a score from the Congressional Budget Office, the CBO analysis of the bills previous version showed what its likely effects will be.
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Zoonart
(11,878 posts)with all of my liberal friends and we are in agreement that the deplorables will "get it" when the nursing homes begin to empty out their Medicare wings and Mom and Dad or Granny and Grandpa our all of them, get unceremoniously dropped off in the driveway.
Bettie
(16,126 posts)a way to blame Obama or Clinton.