Apparently Obama questioned whether his own grandma should have gotten a hip replacement given her age and condition. You might wonder why Obama thought so little of his own grandma, but remember she was a white person.
Anyway, the guy not sure about treating his own grandma is going to be the one decided on care for your loved ones. No worries.
White House adviser David Axelrod is going to try to start his own viral e-mail responding to attacks on Obamacare. It will include responses to eight “myths” about Obamacare, and since I know all of you come to IMAO as your primary news source, I obtained those myths and the White House’s response so you can see them here:
MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT OBAMACARE
MYTH: Obamacare will institute “death panels” to judge who should live and who should die.
FACT: People deciding who will live and who will die will be single Obama-appointed bureaucrats, so no panels are involved.
MYTH: Obamacare will force you from your current employer provided insurance.
FACT: With Obama leading the economy, you were probably going to lose your job and insurance anyway.
MYTH: Obamacare will kill your grandma.
FACT: Your grandma will die from a natural condition that Obamacare will refuse to treat.
MYTH: Obamacare will lead to rationing.
FACT: Procedures will be eliminated wholesale instead of rationed.
MYTH: Obamacare will make me wait weeks or months for necessary medical procedures.
FACT: If you’re waiting that long, then obviously a qualified individual like Barney Frank or Nancy Pelosi decided the procedure wasn’t necessary.
MYTH: Obamacare will be financed by cutting Medicare.
FACT: Obamacare will be financed by eliminating Medicare recipients.
MYTH: While many people will be forced onto the substandard public option, members of Congress will get a separate, much better plan.
FACT: They will be on the same plan, but on a much much higher tier than will be made available to the hoi polloi.
MYTH: Obamacare will be extremely costly and result in putting the country even further in debt.
FACT: There is no confirmation of this, as the solar-powered calculator Obama tried to use to calculate the cost only allowed numbers up to the tens of billions.
The government is going to put data on your hard drive to keep track of you!!!111!!!
Cookies are a text file on your computer you let websites have access to (most browsers are set to automatically grant access, but you can change that setting) so they can keep track of your preferences. Pretty much every site uses them. If you comment on IMAO and wonder how IMAO can keep track of your commenter name so you don’t have to reenter on every visit, that’s a cookie. Frankly, it’s stupid government websites haven’t been able to use cookies for this long.
If cookies scare you, change your browser settings. Yes, it could be possible for the government to use cookies to keep track of your surfing habits, but the website for Tide detergent can do that now. Hell, I can do that now.
Are you freaking out?
Obama says there will be no “Death Panels”.
So I’m wondering… is he saying that the government won’t start denying people care based on cost vs. expected productive value to society, or is he just saying they won’t call this cacophany of bean-counting bureaucrats a “Death Panel”?
I suspect the latter, so I expect the final Obamacare bill will empower its decision-making assemblage under a different name.
Some possibilities:
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Caskets for Clunkers
Reaper Review Board
Cessation Commission
Termination Task Force
Curtains Committee
Departure Directorate
Burial Board
Casualty Cabinet
Funeral Forum
Eradication Convocation
Mortality Moderators
Grave Group
Monty Python Parrot Panel
If you were Obama, what you name YOUR “Death Panel”?
I can never keep up with political correctness; I just got thrown out of the Ku Klux Klan for being homophobic.
No matter how many Sea World employees I talk to, I can never get a straight answer on whether dolphins taste good.
We get called racist for being against spending and government health care – not looking good for when illegal immigration is an issue again.
Some people apparently love the NHS, so if you want government health care, PLEASE MOVE TO BRITAIN!
Is it okay to be racist against Brits because I’m feeling pretty racist against Brits.
If you’re moronic enough to refer to government run health care as “free”, you have no place in this debate.
“Freedom isn’t free, but health care is! Pick the cheaper option!”
If liberals get to refer to health care as “free”, can we refer to the invasion of Iraq as being “free”?
Free at the point of use? “My couch is free! I paid for it at the store, but now any time I use it at home, it’s free!”
I’d live every day like it was my last, but I’m not sure of the benefit of uncontrollable sobbing.
