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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Sadly, I don't have the same faith in the general health care debate audience*, and I think the repetition of this point is kind of deceitful.
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* Please take a moment to think about how plausible you considered Palin's death panel comments and then to consider the number of people who apparently took them very literally.
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As best I can tell, the people who believed that were the people who wanted to believe it -- who were already convinced that anything Obama offers is a socialist plot and who were more than happy to believe it. Those people (and yes, the left has certainly its counterparts) wouldn't believe Obama no matter what he said.
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Personally, I think if we ever end up with government run single payer, we will ration care, so I don't think Palin's comment was 100% deranged. But to suggest that was a likely outcome anytime soon from Obama's reform was manipulative, and apparently successfully so.
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We already have rationed care. It's just that apparently, we're willing to let insurance companies do the rationing.