The Crazy Woman (I'm starting to capitalize the term, which is starting to show up on other blogs) used the language in one of the versions of proposed national health care legislation, to come up with her nutty, attention whore statement last week:"[W]ho 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."
As I wrote early this week, she may have been projecting guilt over her own severe
The concept the Crazy Woman tried to embrace in that facebook entry has been thoroughly debunked. Now, as it turns out, the blog Think Progress has discovered that Palin herself used almost identical language to that in the contemplated health care legislation, when making a proclamation (two days before her mistreated son's birth) back when she was failing in her most recent job:
[O]n April 16th 2008, then Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed some of the same end of life counseling she now decries as a form of euthanasia. In a proclamation announcing “Healthcare Decisions Day,” Palin urged public facilities to provide better information about advance directives, and made it clear that it is critical for seniors to be informed of such options:
WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions. [...]
WHEREAS, one of the principal goals of Healthcare Decisions Day is to encourage hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, continuing care retirement communities, and hospices to participate in a statewide effort to provide clear and consistent information to the public about advance directives, as well as to encourage medical professionals and lawyers to volunteer their time and efforts to improve public knowledge and increase the number of Alaska’s citizens with advance directives.
WHEREAS, the Foundation for End of Life Care in Juneau, Alaska, and other organizations throughout the United States have endorsed this event and are committed to educating the public about the importance of discussing healthcare choices and executing advance directives.
The Think Progress article goes on to observe that the proclamation has somehow been conveniently removed from the State of Alaska web site.
hat tip - Gryph.
image - Darkblack