Newt Gingrich Defends Sarah Palin's "Death Panel" Comments

And I know you leftys love to hate on Sarah Palin.

So here's the story below on barack's health advisor, Dr. Evil emanuel:

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/08/09/an-inconvenient-truth-about-t...

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 Obamas 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.

These critics, however, didnt take the time to find out to what Palin was referring when she used the term level of productivity in society as being the basis for determining access to medical care. If the critics, who hold themselves in the highest of intellectual esteem, had bothered to do something other than react, they would have realized that the approach to health care to which Palin was referring was none other than that espoused by key Obama health care adviser Dr. Ezekial Emanuel (brother of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel).
The article in which Dr. Emanuel puts forth his approach is Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions, published on January 31, 2009. A full copy is embedded below. Read it, particularly the section beginning at page 6 of the embed (page 428 in the original) at which Dr. Emanuel sets forth the principles of The Complete Lives System.
While Emanuel does not use the term death panel, Palin put that term in quotation marks to signify the concept of medical decisions based on the perceived societal worth of an individual, not literally a death panel. And in so doing, Palin was true to Dr. Emanuels concept of a system which
considers prognosis, since its aim is to achieve complete lives. A young person with a poor prognosis has had a few life-years but lacks the potential to live a complete life. Considering prognosis forestalls the concern the disproportionately large amounts of resources will be directed to young people with poor prognoses. When the worst-off can benefit only slightly while better-off people could benefit greatly, allocating to the better-off is often justifiable.When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.

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[jokojay1]

Noot is scrood

[jokojay1]

Noot is scrood

[kikileeMIL]

@MrBuddickman

DID YOU FORGET WHO STARTED THE DAMN WAR IN IRAQ AND AFGANISTAN WE WENT INTO IRAQ OVER A LIE THAT BUSH SAID WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRUCTION A LIIIIIIIIIIIE TEN YEARS OF WAR OVER YOUR EX PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD TO WORK WITH THE REPUBLICANS GARBAGE LEFT BEHIND

[dignerds]

these things are broke because of capitalism in the government

[AUgrad00]

@MrBuddickman Yes this pathetic President cant balance a budget he is bankrupting our nation, social security is a pyramid scheme, FDIC is broke, the post office is broke and I am supposed to trust the Government running my healthcare? You kidding me. I will trust Blue Cross Blue shield a thousand times over more then the government.

So you want the government deciding what you can and cant get. Idiot.

[102936]

My God, Stephanopoulos is such a punk to the Speaker.

[STORMLORD70]

First of all death panel's How many of you send your family to a nursing home because you don't want bothered to take care of them? The second thought is some of you are greedy and want the money and that is all you care about some of you so some not and that is why you are a sell out of your family. I dare you to tell me so if you fell quilty

[MrBuddickman]

Newt is full of hot air. The end of life stuff in the health care bill, is the only part of the bill that makes sense.

[PEACELOVE2005]

So many terminally ill people are placed on "Hospice" in their last days. It is NOT a death panel as one commenter alluded to!!  Hospice provides every aspect of the patients care in their last months/days, while at the same time doing their best to keep the patient 'comfortable' & as "free from pain & suffering" as possible!!They also provide support for the family to cope throughout the ordeal. It's a wonderful agency/benefit for both the patient & family.

[JFAINTER88]

O there coming. and grandmas do die. lots of women die of breast cancer which can be prevented. look into it. dumbasses.