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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

The Sebelius Death Panel


Remember when Sarah Palin was ridiculed for talking of "death panels."

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is refusing to intervene in a case of a young girl who needs a lung transplant as doctors have only given her weeks to live.
 
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rebuffed an appeal from Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., on behalf of a girl who needs a lung transplant but can’t get one because of a federal regulation that prevents her from qualifying for a transplant.
Recall that Obama would have refused a pacemaker to an elederly woman, instead would have given her a pill for her pain.

LifeNews: One Woman Death Panel: Sebelius Won’t Allow Dying Girl to Have Transplant
Ricochet: Kathleen Sibelius - Death panel of One
Richt Wing News: Kathleen Sebelius Dooms 10 Year Old Girl To Death By Refusing To Waive Medical Regulation
The right scoop: Death Panels – Sarah Palin slams HHS Sebelius for not intervening in lung transplant for young girl
The mental recession: Obama’s First Death Panel? Sebelius Responds to Dying Girl ‘Someone Lives and Someone Dies’

Of course in 2009 Sebelius said that ‘Death Panels’ Talk Is “Horrific”
Obama’s top cabinet official in charge of health reform, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said this morning on ‘This Week’ that it’s “horrific" twisting of facts to say that “death panels” would be part of Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.

“I think it’s really horrific that some opponents of the health reform bill have used painful personal moments to scare people about what is in the bill,” Sebelius told guest host Jake Tapper on ABC’s “This Week.”

Sebelius criticized opponents of the Democrats' plans for health overhaul for using scare tactics to try to derail an overhaul saying, “Nothing could be farther from the truth.”

“If anything seniors should welcome the fact that doctors would have a payment provided to sit down with family members if they choose and have a discussion.”

But, Sebelius said these end-of-life provision would "probably be off the table" in final health care reform legislation.

1 comment:

thisishabitforming said...

I will never get tired of reminding people that Sebelius was a supporter of George Tiller the infamous late term abortionist who met his demise at the hands of a gunman. By his own accounts he was responsible for 60,000 abortions. Anyone who has read about Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors knows that killing the unborn is a messy business. She evidently had no problem with Tiller's dealings with the unborn, so I am not surprised her mercy gene is inactive in the case of the born.