Second of two parts
Re “Mama Knows Best? No. Daddy Knows Best? No. Lazarus Does.”
Just before dawn last Sunday, I was in the car waiting for Diane so we could go to the gym when The New York Times arrived.
On the day after Christmas, when the Western world practically has been ordered to act like dilettantes instead of serious people, the lead story biffed me on my nose. The lighting was poor and I had been awake only an hour, so perhaps I misunderstood.
Did I really read that the infamous death panels in the insidious ObamaCare scam were back in even more loathsome form?
Indeed I did read that the odious gimmick the American people forced the misguided President and his misled Democratic camp followers to flamboyantly remove from the lagging ObamaCare bill so that it could pass, now had been sneaked back in through a rat hole?
Sometimes, America’s sagging Newspaper of Record actually will publish news that embarrasses left-wingers.
The fourth sentence in this gotcha story blew its cover as a random, innocent report. The Times said that because Democrats fear setting off an explosion by the Republicans like the earthquake in 2009 that nearly submarined ObamaCare:
“Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet.”
If we don’t say anything aloud, Democrats say, maybe the people won’t notice.
The unethical point is: What the ironfisted Obama White House could not achieve through the front door, it accomplished by crawling like snakes through the back door with an extra fillip that smacks of revenge We the People are sure to regret.
Death to Death Panels? No, Sir
After Sarah Palin’s widely panned lambasting criticism of the death panels last year — end-of-life consultations with medical personnel whereby agreement to curtail medicinal solutions will be encouraged — the scheme was dropped from the ObamaCare bill so it could pass.
However, beginning on Saturday, the first day of the new year, death panels, in even more ludicrous formulation, will be back as a government regulation!
Smelling like the oily recess appointments that Presidents make, this new Big Brother Gotcha Government of the Obamacrats is a devious regulation that will be overseen by the latest witch in the Obama cabinet, the terribly empowered Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
What the government knows about “health and human services” is a Father Goose fairy tale for another day.
These almost death panels will occur under the guise of ObamaCare’s mandated annual “wellness visits.”
While the financially motivated consultations technically are not death panels, but rather end-of-life discussions, they are fraught with common-man risk. Under the new Medicare regulations menacingly overseen by HHS, the government will create needless incentive by juicing the game. They will pay extra to doctors/nurse practitioners and similar medical types for advising patients on end-of-life care.
Think: Rationing what will be described as scarce or too expensive medical resources.
At first, the consults may sound not only harmless but desirable. Such discussions have been conducted since the Garden of Eden. But the Obama people loaded the gun before pulling the trigger.
Returning from the Dead
As you may know, rationing medicine to senior citizens is one of the fundamental tenets of the despicable ObamaCare. Aside from its informative value, I was acutely interested in The New York Times report on Sunday because it played into recent belligerence from business columnist David Lazarus, an unrequited cheerleader for ObamaCare. He wrote two glib, stentorian defenses of the still largely mysterious plan on Dec. 17 and Dec. 21 in the Los Angeles Titanic.
Mr. Lazarus, who proudly advocates using force, can’t understand why, nine months after the scam limped to victory in Congress last March, most Americans (54 percent to 43, as of yesterday) still oppose it. He argues that as sensitive, freedom-loving people, we should be willing to pay out of our pockets for the 50 million of our countrymen who do not have health coverage. Arrogantly, he ignores the fact most of the uncovered do not want the coverage. But the left believes in victims. Mr. Lazarus is stunned that two-thirds of Americans think forcing the 50 mill to buy health insurance is morally, not to mention financially, abhorrent.
In yesterday’s column, National Review editor Rich Lowry sketched a scary scenario of the full, no-retreat imposition of ObamaCare, bone by bone, once Witch Kathleen becomes perhaps the most feared and powerful woman in the country.
In Mr. Lazarus’s essays, he was careful to say in each that ObamaCare is mandated for “nearly everyone.” It is not forced onto all. That way, I suppose, an Obama cheerleader can justify the fiction that Swish won’t sound like a dictator.
Remember from your schooldays how certain pets of the teacher always caught a break? Sneaky Sebelius is our teacher, boys, and is she handing out favors? As Mr. Lowry notes, not all Americans will be fined, jailed or shot if they don’t submit to the will of Swish and Sneaky.
Some of the favored already have drawn passes.
More than 100 waivers have been softly issued to politically sensitive, slyly selected groups. The list of labor unions won’t surprise or disappoint you. But the unprecedented, Hugo Chavez-like power that Democrats quietly have invested in Sneaky Sebelius undoubtedly will.
