Ssrah Palin's early warning radar detected low-flying health care rationing back in the day when ObamaCare was just an idea being kicked around by the neosocialists, and her prediction that "death panels" would be part and parcel of the left's socialized medicine agenda has been vindicated many times, despite the leftist campaign to ridicule her and brand her a liar.
Professor Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, in a National Review commentary, examines the socialist notion that the elderly have a "duty to die." Here are a few choice morsels:
One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have “a duty to die” rather than become a burden to others.Sarah Palin is the Paul Revere of her time. Read Dr. Sowell's full NRO op-ed here. A linked list of all previous posts in our "Sarah Palin Was Right" series is here.
This is more than just an idea discussed around a seminar table. Already the government-run medical system in Britain is restricting what medications or treatments it will authorize for the elderly. Moreover, it seems almost certain that similar attempts to contain runaway costs will lead to similar policies when American medical care is taken over by the government.
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It is today, in an age when homes have flat-paneled TVs and most families eat in restaurants regularly or have pizzas and other meals delivered to their homes, that the elites — rather than the masses — have begun talking about “a duty to die.”
Back in the days of Aunt Nance Ann, nobody in our family had ever gone to college. Indeed, none had gone beyond elementary school. Apparently, you need a lot of expensive education, sometimes including courses on ethics, before you can start talking about “a duty to die.”
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Much of what is taught in our schools and colleges today seeks to break down traditional values and replace them with more fancy and fashionable notions, of which “a duty to die” is just one.
- JP
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