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Salon.com
JULY 2, 2012 7:55PM

Yes Virginia, there IS a Death Panel: The GOP Governors.

Rate: 8 Flag

One only has to replay the tapes of the quitter from Wasilla, former half term Governor and Weathergirl Sarah Palin, when she said that the Affordable Health Care Act would create "Death Panels."

I never I thought I would admit that Sarah Palin was correct. The law did create a "Death Panel." It is made up of the Governors of the 26 states who challenged the Affordable Health Care act in the federal courts.

Now that National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius has been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, several of the GOP Governors will be playing God, and will, for lack of a better description, become an ipso facto, honest-to-goodness death panel

These ideological zealots, will choose to reject the Medicaid expansion that is part of the Affordable Care Act, depriving millions of citizens to access to health care in their respective states. 

If you live in Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Louisana, Wisconsin, and South Carolina, the states' GOP governors have come out on the record of being against this expansion.

Particularly chilling is physician turned governor Bobby Jindal, who hypocritically is ignoring the hypocratic oath of "do no harm", by doing no good. 

In Florida, Governor Rick Scott who has personal experience with Medicare fraud when forced to resign as CEO of Columbia/HCA, has chosen to also kill off poor Floridians who were likely to vote for Democrats opt out of the Medicaid expansion.

While this may make political sense in the short term,  it will only be a matter of time before the hospital lobbyists reminde these myopic members of the Greed Over Patriotism party,  that hospitals will have to bear the costs of the uninsured who will flood their emergency rooms.

Since lobbyists money talks, expect the tune of these fatuous blatherskites to change, when they realize it's not nice to fool with campaign contributions.

Want to test your own knowledge of the Affordable Care Act? Visit this link .  I took the quiz and answered 10 out of 10 correctly, which puts me in the less than one percent of the population who actually knows what the legislation does. 

After you take the quiz read the analysis here. You might find it interesting to know that Kaiser Family Foundation was founded by a CEO of a major U.S.  manufacturing company in the 1950s.

 

 

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If a Democratic Governor refused to enforce a federal law, the same Republicans would be screaming for impeachment.
I got 10 out of 10 also. I guess I won't be allowed to attend the next Tea Party meeting.
Cranky -- Amazing how ignorance and craven self interest wins out over intellect and compassion.
I cannot understand how, thru everything they have seen, the bipartisan cannot shake hands and agree on something!
10 out of 10. The whole GOP objective is to keep its constituents in fear and ignornace. "of "do no harm", by doing no good " -- sweet turn of a phrase, OE.
Why is it people will believe a load of crap before they'll believe one fact?!
cranky - unlike the mandate, they are not breaking the law. They were given an option. Take it or leave it. Did you miss that. It is a choice not a requirement. No low broken.
Also how the hell did medicaid get in this position. You and I pad directly to the feds for this. Why do you and I get it back through the state. Our SS check does not come through the state with a threat to not get my check if the state does not add to it. Why is the state in the middle at all. It is a fed program. What ever benefits I get should be directly between me and the fed. Show created this perversion?

ccdarling - What fact wont you accept. The fed has the money it is spending because it taxed you and I for it. (Actually they don't, they just print it. Is the state supposed to get to from a money tree. Some states are just too broke.

If this were at the city level where would Stockton me right now?
sheep - I got them correct too. And clearly this is designed to make you feel the correct answers are good policy. But because I got the correct answer does not I believe it or trust it.
For instance. Will illegals get help to by insurance. No.

So they won't and are not required. So they get to abuse the ER and I don't.

I have l always that tought that even legal visitors should pay a small fee to cover the rare case they may get sick in the US.

I once lost a crown while in NZ on business. I went to a dentist he put some temp cement in it to last to I got back home. I paid nothing. There was no reason for that. I was prepared to pay a reasonable fee for that. I am not a tax payer to NZ and their citizens should not be paying for my problem.
It's going to get interesting. I wonder where Indiana's gubernatorial candidates stand. I should look that up tonight.
Since I understand very little of the problem these (and other) people have with the legislation, I'll rate this solely because of the use of that wonderful old term "blatherskite". And for setting the record straight on the death panel issue.
Got nine out of ten and would debate the one I missed as there really is not any penalty for not getting insurance despite the goal of encouraging all to get some coverage. These governors are traitors.