Palin’s Alaska “Death Panel” Killed Senior Citizens

Here is an explanation as to why Palin would conjure up images of government bureaucrats killing elderly and disabled people: her State government did it under her own tenure. The abuse and level of death from neglect was so extreme that the Federal government had to intervene, something that had never happened in any other state at any time with this program.

A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.

As Senator Al Franken once said, “Republicans will tell you that Government can’t do anything right. You believe it and elect them, and then they prove it.”