By GottaLaff
ClusterFox, rev up your oily little gerbil-wheel engines! Here's your next meme! Are you ready? Are you excited? The anticipation is palpable.
I believe I can detect the drool from here:Surrounded by a group of parents clutching pictures of their special needs children, two Republican members of Congress stood in front of the Capitol on Tuesday and warned that President Obama's proposed health care system will lead to a rationing of care for children with disabilities.
Curses! We Dems can't slip anything by these sharpies. And just when we were striving to cut special needs kids off, too.
GOP Reps. Trent Franks of Arizona and Cathy McMorris Rogers of Washington said at a news conference that government-run health care systems, wherever they exist in the world, inevitably force health providers to refuse care to people with chonically-ill family members in order to reduce costs. Both members of Congress said the issue hits close to home: McMorris-Rogers has a son with Down Syndrome, and Franks was born with a cleft palate.
Paging Sarah Palin. Paging Sarah "Time to Drag Out Trig" Palin...
[Trent Franks] predicted that the president's health care legislation will lead to "the largest expansion of abortion since Roe vs. Wade."
Well, I should certainly hope so! I've been on a waiting list for a gay abortion for years now! Just imagine how long I'll have to wait if a public option passes!
The two Republicans then heard from nearly a dozen parents who claimed that their disabled children would be discriminated against under the Democratic plan.
Those clever Rushpublics! Always ready with a cogent argument. Why, I bet they can point us to the EXACT language that PRECISELY spells out how disabled kids will be excluded.
McMorris-Rogers could not point to any specific language in the legislation currently before Congress that would deny health care to disabled children, but she said she and the families were worried that a government-run health insurance plan would give power to a government bureaucrat who would be able to decide whether or not "certain procedures or certain devices" would be covered for individuals.
I wonder if there's language that addresses how government bureaucrats will decide whether or not to treat nutcases with irrational fears.
The independent fact-checker PolitiFact wrote last month that there "is no panel in any version of the health care bills in Congress that judges a person's 'level of productivity in society' to determine whether they are 'worthy' of health care."
Pshyeah, as if THAT matters.
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