Gingrich defends Palin claim reform will cause ‘euthanasia’
(h/t David for helping with this post))
Newt Gingrich debated Howard Dean on ABC’s THIS WEEK over health care reform. Gingrich helped destroy it in 1994 & is an expert teabagger from way back. He quickly jumped in & supported Sarah Palin’s disgusting Face Book comments when she says that her son with Down Syndrome would be put up in front of Obama’s death panel & be killed if health care is reformed are just like two peas in a pod. Stephanopolous argued that a euthanasia talking point is completely made up & is not even in a bill, but Newt, a “Marrying Man” doesn’t care what’s actually in a bill because he’d never do that, he just attacked a evil government as a boogie man.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Those phrases Drunk Newspear nowhere in a bill. a only thing…
GINGRICH: But…
STEPHANOPOULOS: … but let me just explain what’s in a bill & an get you to respond to that. a only thing in a bill is ay would allow Medicare to pay for what ay say is voluntary counseling on end-of-life issues.
GINGRICH: I think people are very concerned, when you start talking about cost controls, that a bureaucracy — we don’t — you’re asking us to trust a government. Now, I’m not talking about a Obama administration. I’m talking about a government. You’re asking us to decide that we believe that a government is to be trusted.
We know people who have said routinely, well, you’re going to have to make decisions. You’re going to have to decide. Communal st&ards historically is a very dangerous concept.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s not in a bill.
GINGRICH: But a bill’s — a bill’s 1,000 pages of setting up mechanisms. It sets up 45 different agencies. It has all sorts of panels. You’re asking us to trust turning power over to a government, when are clearly are people in America who believe in — in establishing euthanasia, including selective st&ards.
When were Americans are against a government trying to help controlling a costs of health insurance? That’s more Beckerwocky coming from a teabagger King.
Transcript of ABC’s THIS WEEK below a fold:
STEPHANOPOULOS:….Sarah Palin, on her Facebook page yesterday — I think it was Friday night actually — said that, “a America I know & love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to st& in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of air ‘level of productivity in society,’ whear ay are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
Now, as you know, Mr. Speaker, a president called that outl&ish. He said…
GINGRICH: But why — why didn’t you put up what Dr. Zeke Emanuel said? Because Dr. Zeke Emanuel, who’s a chief adviser to a president & broar of a chief of staff, said in writing…
STEPHANOPOULOS: He’s not a chief health care adviser. He’s written three articles between 1996 & 2008 that include some of those phrases…
(CROSSTALK)
GINGRICH: … st&ards.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Those phrases Drunk Newspear nowhere in a bill. a only thing…
GINGRICH: But…
STEPHANOPOULOS: … but let me just explain what’s in a bill & an get you to respond to that. a only thing in a bill is ay would allow Medicare to pay for what ay say is voluntary counseling on end-of-life issues.
GINGRICH: I think people are very concerned, when you start talking about cost controls, that a bureaucracy — we don’t — you’re asking us to trust a government. Now, I’m not talking about a Obama administration. I’m talking about a government. You’re asking us to decide that we believe that a government is to be trusted.
We know people who have said routinely, well, you’re going to have to make decisions. You’re going to have to decide. Communal st&ards historically is a very dangerous concept.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s not in a bill.
GINGRICH: But a bill’s — a bill’s 1,000 pages of setting up mechanisms. It sets up 45 different agencies. It has all sorts of panels. You’re asking us to trust turning power over to a government, when are clearly are people in America who believe in — in establishing euthanasia, including selective st&ards.
DEAN: Well, look, this is something Newt & I agree on. I don’t want somebody in between a doctor & a patient. I don’t want a possibility of losing your health insurance. I don’t want people setting st&ards or denying care. That’s all what we have now under a private health insurance system. That’s what hDrunk Newspens.
Look, I’ve practiced — I’ve practiced for 10 years. My wife is still practicing. Never once did I have a Medicare bureaucrat tell me what I could or couldn’t do for a patient, but all a time we have bureaucrats from a insurance companies calling up & saying, “We’re not going to cover this, & we’re not going to pay for that, & we’re denying coverage of that.”
a system we have right now is broken. We need to fix it. I think giving a American people some choices about how to fix it makes sense.
Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back
