...is at it again. I just read that
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
"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," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.
"Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.
I can't decide what's scariest about this piece: Palin's ignorance, her cynicism or that her page has "nearly 700,000 supporters." (By the way, do you suppose that the "death panel" will occupy an office down the hall from the "Department of Law" that Palin also dreamed up in her head?) But what I'd really like to ask the ex-governor, now that she's out of work, is exactly how many private insurers under the current system that she thinks will underwrite her Down Syndrome baby if she tries to buy insurance in the individual market. She may be a little disappointed to find out that the answer is none.
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