When the Affordable Care Act was under debate, and even after its passage, one of the biggest canards Republicans used to demagogue against it was that it would create “death panels.”
Republicans who used the term never specified exactly what they meant by that term, but the implication was that one or more groups of cold-hearted, evil people would be supposedly making decisions on whether people should get certain kinds of health care or whether they should just be allowed to die. That was what unscrupulous demagogues like Sarah Palin and her ilk were talking about with their bogus claims that Obamacare included “death panels.”
Well, as usual, history has proven Palin and all of her other dishonest conservative comrades to be completely...full of crap... on the subject of death panels.
However, now that the Republican Party is in complete control of our federal government, and these power-hungry politicians are anxious to start giving massive amounts of money and power to the elite special interests that enabled them to purchase their political offices, we have a new Republican proposal from Paul Ryan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
And...guess what? Paul Ryan and his Republican supporters now want to institute changes to our health insurance system that will give more money to the rich who don’t need it, while dramatically reducing health insurance benefits for the middle class and the poor who need it more than ever before. And every major independent group that has looked at Ryan’s hell care proposal have said that it would not only reduce the amount of money to help people purchase health insurance, especially for poorer and older Americans, but that it would take health insurance away from more than 10 million people.
So...what would you call a group of people that have decided, cynically, callously and cold-heartedly, to take health insurance away from those who need it the most just to survive?
The phrase “death panel” certainly seems accurate to me to describe that nasty , disgusting and evil group of people like Paul Ryan and his co-conspirators who want to take health care coverage from Americans.
The 115th Republican Congress will go down in history as this country’s ultimate Death Panel if they decide to enact Ryan’s pathetic excuse for a healthcare bill. And each different committee of that Congress that approves such a bill will also constitute nothing less than a death panel.
If ever there was a death panel, the current Republican regime in Washington would certainly constitute one.
And while Paul Ryan currently heads up the Republican Death Panel, the Donald has said he wants to be a member of the Death Panel, too. And untold numbers of Republicans, including every single Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which voted to kill people by taking away their health insurance, are also members of the Republican Death Panel.
What a strange world politics is. We’ve gone from Republicans opposing Obamacare because of alleged “death panels” which never materialized...to Republicans creating their own Death Panels which will literally kill people by taking health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Lets begin the mantra now. Paul Ryan’s hellcare proposal is nothing less than a Death Panel. Repeat after me: Death Panel. Death Panel. Death Panel.
The Republicans’ proposal is far closer to a death panel than anything Democrats have ever proposed or enacted, that’s for sure.