Sarah Palin was correct (again)

So, it turns out Sarah Palin was absolutely correct when she spoke of “death panels” under Obamacare:

Death Panels Live! In his Politico piece calling for a revival of Obamacare’s original end-of-life-counseling provisions, Harold Pollack blames “Palin, Bachmann and McCaughey” for having “dragged comparative effectiveness research (CER) into the broader partisan knife-fight over health reform.” But of course the main person who dragged comparative effectiveness into the knife-fight was Barack Obama, expounding on red pills vs. blue pills to David Leonhardt in the NYT months before Palin’s “death panel” gibe (and doing it again in subsequent speeches and statements). … Obama also put cost saving through “comparative effectiveness” squarely in the context of end-of-life decisions when he questioned whether his terminally ill grandmother should have been given a hip operation. (While Pollack  says end-of-life treatment is not one of the top targets for savings, Obama says it’s a “huge driver of costs.”)

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/09/poor-malia/#ixzz37EbJ7im6