The newest insanity making the rounds is fueled by something Sarah Palin wrote on Facebook.
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. Such a system is downright evil.
That's right, if health care reform goes through, the United States will go fullblown Spartan and start pitching "imperfect" babies over a cliff. I'm not sure which is worse, that Sarah Palin would make something this insane up for political gain or that she thinks Americans are stupid enough to believe it.
But this is America -- home of UFO conspiracy theories and TV shows that take haunted houses seriously -- there is nothing so stupid, so insane, so ridiculous that someone won't believe every word of it. If Sarah Palin says that people will have to justify their existence before a "death panel," then there aren't going to be any shortage of morons who'll take that as Gospel. Stupid is a pre-existing condition.
But the truth is that there are already "death panels" in the US. Decisions about health care are already made by people who aren't physicians. And people die as a result... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
