Sarah Palin: Liberals Gearing Up to Push for Single-Payer Health Care

Sarah Palin: Liberals Gearing Up to Push for Single-Payer Health Care

by Tony Lee 16 May 2014, 5:00 PM PDT

http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/16/Sarah-Palin-Liberals-Gearing-Up-to-Push-for-Single-Payer-Health-Care

On Friday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin suggested that recent revelations that 40 U.S. veterans died while they were placed on secret waiting lists at a VA hospital in Arizona is a preview of what will occur Obamacare.

Palin reminded Americans that she predicted Obamacare's "death panels" before the law was passed and said liberals will start pushing for a single-payer system as Obamacare, which has been changed, at whim, numerous times with executive actions, runs into even more problems.

"What happens next is the Left will subtly suggest moving America toward a single-payer system, which was their intention all along. Watch for this gradual, but driving, descent into statism," Palin warned. "So, are you still relying on Obamacare to help and not hurt you? On the Democrats' watch, health care in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats proves Reagan’s adage that government is not the solution; government is the problem."

Palin was right then on "death panels" and stood her ground even as she was relentlessly mocked. Later, liberals such as Paul Krugman, Howard Dean, and former Obama adviser Steve Rattner conceded that "death panels" were a necessary component of Obamacare.

Palin cited her "death panels" post on August 7, 2009:

“And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”

Politifact declared her statement the “Lie of the Year" in 2009, as Palin noted:

“We agree with Palin that such a system would be evil. But it's definitely not what President Barack Obama or any other Democrat has proposed.”

Palin pointed out, though, that when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was asked whether the ultimate goal was to get the country on single-payer healthcare, he replied, "Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.’”

She also noted that on June 30, 2013, President Barack Obama also declared that he wanted a single-payer system, saying, "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care plan.”

Palin said she had the media's sticky "Lie of the Year" label on her back that the Orwellian Left and the "squishy" right used to denounce her and "commonsense conservatives" as those who "just don’t know what we’re talking about." But now they are seeing the light.

"I love this American Awakening when finally more voters can’t say they weren’t warned," Palin wrote. "But the truth stares us in the face and pocketbook, especially as we see the unworkable Obamacare."

Palin mentioned that Eric Shinseki, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, said he was "mad as hell" at the secret waiting lists but has refused to resign. She indicated that this was par for the course in Obama's administration. Referring the IRS's targeting of conservatives, Palin mentioned that "we’ve seen how Obama merely gives lip service to his bureaucrats 'investigating' his bureaucracy" and told Americans to not be "surprised if he finds nothing wrong in the government’s VA health system – 'NOT EVEN A SMIDGEN'"

Howard Dean

Howard Dean is a frequent guest on Morning Joe.

Note: Richard N. Haass is a frequent guest on Morning Joe, and was a VP at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Steven L. Rattner is a frequent guest on Morning Joe, a director at the New America Foundation, and was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the New America Foundation (think tank), and the Committee for Economic Development.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Eric E. Schmidt is the chairman of the New America Foundation (think tank), was a funder for the New America Foundation (think tank), a trustee at Princeton University, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Paul R. Krugman is an economist at Princeton University, and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Jason L. Furman is the chairman for the Council of Economic Advisers, and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Kenneth M. Duberstein is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the Boeing Company, and was a VP at the Committee for Economic Development.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

W. James McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.

William M. Daley was a director at the Boeing Company, the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP

Newton N. Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, and his maternal grandmother was Madelyn Payne Dunham.

Madelyn Payne Dunham was Barack Obama’s maternal grandmother, and an aircraft inspector for the Boeing Company.

Barbara G. Fast was a VP at the Boeing Company, and a VP for the CGI Group Inc.

CGI Group Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.

Obamacare is Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.

Donna S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Chuck Hagel was the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the deputy administrator for the U.S. Veterans Administration, and is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Defense for the Barack Obama administration.

Togo D. West Jr. is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), was the general counsel for the U.S. Department of Defense, and the secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Eric K. Shinseki was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the Barack Obama administration.