Flipping channels last night, I noticed pop singer Pat Boone, who's now a senior citizen, being interviewed on the Huckabee show. The crawler said the subject was health care, so I turned the volume on and found that they were discussing what Boone calls "death panels."
As highlighted prior to the vote on Obamacare last year by Sarah Palin, among others, the panel is actually a 15-member Independent Payments Advisory Board, also known as IPAB, which by itself, without congressional approval, is empowered to dictate what constitutes "necessary care" for those who participate in Medicare.
Boone was irate in presenting his opinion which for him boiled down to 15 people rationing health care for seniors and deciding who was to live or die, which he naturally thinks is outrageous and beyond belief. He went on to say that he's a spokesman for a group called 60 Plus which has 7.1 million members nationwide.
So, in keeping with my recent theme about population segments and groups that have been alienated by the current administration, here's another 7 million folks or so, who likely won't vote for the incumbent again. Because, it seems to me, that would be like like buying a gun and then deciding to shoot yourself with it. And I just can't see senior citizens, of all people, doing something so abjectly stupid to themselves.
That's it for today folks.
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