Death panels

Sarah Palin says:

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. Such a system is downright evil.

In the America that Sarah Palin knows and loves, there are three major ways to obtain health insurance:

• Government: This option reeks of socialism. 'Nuff said.
• Employer: Employer-based health care definitely doesn't discriminate against people based on their level of productivity. Plenty of unproductive paper shufflers have health insurance, while many productive janitors are uncovered.
• Private insurance: I can only imagine what the premiums would look like for someone with a pre-existing condition such as Down syndrome. On the other hand, this doesn't discriminate against people with low levels of productivity. It just discriminates against the poor.

Shorter Sarah Palin: I don't want government bureaucrats to ration health care based on their productivity. I want insurance companies to do it based on their wealth.