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Here we go, another round in the battle: Sarah Palin vs. Barack Hussein Obama, right on the eave of his prime-time speech to Congress (how many of those, now?) to browbeat shell-shocked Senators and Representatives and revitalize his lagging socialist Health Care Plan...

Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care

The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.

By SARAH PALIN

Sweet.

Remember the last time Sarah mentioned 'death panels' the Left erupted in a frenzy of frothing hate; there's no fear in Sarah's eyes. She isn't the one who is shell-shocked...to see that, look in the eyes of the blue-dog Democrats (you listening , Bart Gordon?).

This excerpt... (emboldenings mine)

How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree.

Sarah then goes on to poo-pooh 'big government' fixes of anything, then cites the non-partisan CBO figures that disagree with the numbers the Obama Administration trotted out.

Then to the crux of the biscuit...

Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He's asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Council—an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of "normal political channels," should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives . . . ."

Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by—dare I say it—death panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans. Working through "normal political channels," they made themselves heard, and as a result Congress will likely reject a wrong-headed proposal to authorize end-of-life counseling in this cost-cutting context. But the fact remains that the Democrats' proposals would still empower unelected bureaucrats to make decisions affecting life or death health-care matters. Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration.

Ka-POW! Right in the kisser. Take that, Joker~!

Not to be caught without some 'alternative' proposals, Sarah Palin brings out some of the same Republican proposals that haven't gained any attraction with Obama's one-option party, including my favorite, Tort Reform, and others including letting Insurance companies operate across state lines, just like the banks do...can you remember the times when banks were wholly owned inside and controlled by the various states? Ronald Reagan signed the Interstate Banking Act in the early '80's and allowed cross-state-line bank ownership for the first time in American history. Thus we have Bank of America, U.S. Bank, and a myriad of 'out-of-state' banks. But I do miss Third National Bank... )

Sarah Palin's timing is perfect. Another chip thrown in the gears of Obama's machine-operated political disaster. Just when we needed it.

Thank you, Sarah Palin!

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