Zycher: Sarah Palin is 'absolutely right' about death panels

Benjamin Zycher, a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute think tank, has written an excellent point-by-point review of the president's Wednesday night speech to Congress, published on National Review's health care blog Critical Condition.

Dr. Zycher (he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA) found no less than twenty-two distinct misrepresentations in Obama's address, including this one:

"13. With respect to 'killing off senior citizens': No, Gandma won't be unhooked from the machine. Instead, she won't be allowed onto the machine in the first place, if it is expensive. Can President Obama actually deny this, given that resources are limited always and everywhere? And who will decide how to allocate such limited resources? Well, let's be honest: Sarah Palin is absolutely right about death panels, however emotive that phrase might be. As for illegal aliens: Has President Obama proposed some sort of verification process for those seeking non-emergency care? In a word: No."

Don't let the Obamunists, including the Democrat-Media Complex, get away with telling the Big Lie that former Governor Palin's point about death panels has been "refuted" -- it has not. A number of economists from Dr. Zycher to Thomas Sowell have vindicated her. She has also been vindicated by doctors, pundits, politicians and everyday americans. But the most telling vindication of all for the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate was when the Senate Finance Committee removed the death care provision, one that liberals had insisted did not exist,  from the Senate version of the bill.

- JP