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"Death Panels" could be back, Sarah Palin says. But this time they are not the creation of the Obama administration. No, these are the handiwork of the bipartisan debt commission.
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the former Alaska governor takes aim at several of the controversial commission's recommendations, saying the cuts it proposes "implicitly endorses the use of 'death panel'-like rationing."
Palin highlights the commission's proposal for an Independent Payments Advisory Board, a committee, she says, that will make "bureaucrats, not medical professionals, the ultimate arbiters of what types of treatment will (and especially will not) be reimbursed under Medicare."
The former Alaska governor also takes aim at the commission for advocating cuts in defense, an area that Palin says should be off-limits.
"Among the few areas of spending it does single out for cuts is defense - the one area where we shouldn't be cutting corners at a time of war," she writes. "Worst of all, the commission's proposals institutionalize the current administration's new big spending commitments."
Funny how the Tea Partiers love to talk up their support for smaller government, but when actual proposals for spending cuts emerge, they reject many of them.
Defending Medicare spending is certainly not "small government" by any stretch of the imagination -- neither is moving against defense cuts.
What do you guys think?
"Death Panels" could be back, Sarah Palin says. But this time they are not the creation of the Obama administration. No, these are the handiwork of the bipartisan debt commission.
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the former Alaska governor takes aim at several of the controversial commission's recommendations, saying the cuts it proposes "implicitly endorses the use of 'death panel'-like rationing."
Palin highlights the commission's proposal for an Independent Payments Advisory Board, a committee, she says, that will make "bureaucrats, not medical professionals, the ultimate arbiters of what types of treatment will (and especially will not) be reimbursed under Medicare."
The former Alaska governor also takes aim at the commission for advocating cuts in defense, an area that Palin says should be off-limits.
"Among the few areas of spending it does single out for cuts is defense - the one area where we shouldn't be cutting corners at a time of war," she writes. "Worst of all, the commission's proposals institutionalize the current administration's new big spending commitments."
Funny how the Tea Partiers love to talk up their support for smaller government, but when actual proposals for spending cuts emerge, they reject many of them.
Defending Medicare spending is certainly not "small government" by any stretch of the imagination -- neither is moving against defense cuts.
What do you guys think?