Mike Huckabee is also politicizing Kennedy's death. Photo by David Ball
While I have disagreed with many of Mike Huckabee's positions in the past I have respected his civility and the manner in which he communicates. Unfortunately now Huckabee seems to be "going Beck" in using extremely misleading statements in order oppose health care reform. I do not know the cause behind the Huckabee transition. Perhaps Huckabee feels pressure to be as extreme as media figures like Glenn Beck in order to increase his ratings.
Regardless the motivation, Huckabee is now politicizing the Ted Kennedy death while simultaneously telling Democrats not to do the same. Recently Huckabee said Democrats efforts to pass reform in Kennedy's name was not in "good taste" and that "it defies logic." Yet later Huckabee said that if Kennedy lived under "Obamacare" he would have been given painkillers to die rather than lifesaving surgery. So Huckabee, a Republican, is allowed to use the Kennedy death to score political points but Democrats are not.
Not only does Huckabee's attack show poor "taste" it is also a blatant lie. Nowhere does the current health care reform bill considered by Congress explicitly or implicitly endorse "death panels" or "euthanasia." Huckabee of course cites no provision of the bill which supports his position.
Instead, Huckabee seems to be relying on one quote from Obama in which he allegedly told a woman to take painkillers instead of having surgery. In reality President Obama made no such statement. The full video of the exchange with the woman can be seen below. In the clip President Obama mentions the fact that lifesaving procedures are currently denied by health insurance companies. In addition, Obama places special emphasis on the importance of the individual deciding what treatments they do or do not undergo as opposed to bureaucrats or insurance companies.
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So, we have a U.S. Senator and a Vice-President using profanity at Sen. Kennedy's funeral, and the liberal media is focused on Mike Huckabee's statements. Hmmm, that could be a good thing.
Obama during his speech on healthcare referred to his own grandmother, as he explained that families and patients were not emotionally up to making end of life decisions, and that he would like to have a panel of not congress, but rather ethecists, unbiased health care professionals, etc. to help make those hard decisions on end of life care; rather than spending money on treatments for terminal patients. Also, the VA was requiring doctors to give a pamphlet to disabled or depressed patients urging them to consider giving up. This is now being re-evaluated. Lastly, some of Obama's main advisors on healthcare reform have written concerning books and articles in the past. Eziekiel Emmanuel for example, wrote that he would not pay for a dementia patients medications, but he would pay for their euthenasia medicine. And, Emmanuel said that the most healthcare should go to 15-55 year olds. The rest get rationed. What do you think Obama meant? The effect is the same as a "death panel".
Since I listen to Beck and Rush all the time and agree with them most of the time, and I have found Huckabee to be too much of a RINO for me... maybe he is learning and changing for the better!
NOBAMA!
Think of all the money we saved on embalming fluid.
Hi. let me try to be as brief as possible. There is no such thing as "free health care." It's a myth. Everything, including health care, costs money. Therefore, whether you like it or not, health care is rationed based on money. Under the current system, at least the elderly (those who would need health care the most) have spent a life time working to gain the money that is hopefully enough to get them the help they need. Under the new Obama-Pelosi plan, the public option would drive most private insurers out of business, forcing millions of Americans onto the public plan. The public plan doesn't have unlimited money. It has to ration care in some way. Huckabee and most Americans understand that the elderly/ terminally ill would be the most likely denied treatment because they have little to no future to repay the government through taxes. Therefore, their care would be sacrificed for the sake of caring for younger Americans with the ability to pay taxes for the next 30 years.
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