You know, liberals love to trash Sarah Palin for her comments regarding the so-called “Death Panels” that the Obama/Democrat health care plan will lead to. Yeah, I’ll grant you that it might — MIGHT — be over-the-top rhetoric, but it’s not far from the truth.

I mean, look at the kind of stuff that happens in the UK and ask yourself if we really, really want our health care system to be like that:

Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday.

Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy – almost four months early.

They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines that babies born before 22 weeks should not be given medical treatment.

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Medics allegedly told her that they would have tried to save the baby if he had been born two days later, at 22 weeks.
In fact, the medical guidelines for Health Service hospitals state that babies should not be given intensive care if they are born at less than 23 weeks.

The guidance, drawn up by the Nuffield Council, is not compulsory but advises doctors that medical intervention for very premature children is not in the best interests of the baby, and is not ’standard practice’.

James Paget Hospital in Norfolk refused to comment on the case but said it was not responsible for setting the guidelines relating to premature births.

A trust spokesman said: ‘Like other acute hospitals, we follow national guidance from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine regarding premature births.’

Sound familiar? It should. This is exactly what Obama and the Democrats want to bring here to the United States. A panel of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who will set policies and guidelines that literally will decide who gets treated, how they get treated, and when (if ever) they get treated. Now, “death panel” may sound harsh to our friends on the left, but what else would you call it?

Liberals have to know that their vision for America will ruin this country. We have too much debt and too much long-term financial obligations as it is, yet they want to add to it. For all the talk they give about the future generations, etc., it’s quite clear that they don’t care about posterity one bit. I mean, who cares if they’ve mortgaged the future of their children, grandchildren, and great-great-great grandchildren, so long as they get theirs right now? It’s all good, right?