Palin Leaves Behind Mismanaged AK Health Care System - Hundreds Die Waiting For Care
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Aug 12, 2009 2:00pm
Perhaps Sarah Palin made that ridiculous statement about "Obama Death Panels" because she knew this story was going to break -- it was happening in her own state, right under her nose:
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life -- taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom -- are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements. No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she's so weak, she often can't even pop dinner into the microwave.
This is the GOP's alternative to a public or universal option. Sarah wants to talk about evil socialist plans that will kill people, but I betcha she doesn't want to talk about the hundreds of Alaskans who died waiting for these services.
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. Read on...
In honor of the people of Alaska who died on her watch, Sarah Palin needs to stop makin' stuff up about health care reform, and apologize for screwing things up and then running away when the going got tough.
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You betcha!
she quit.
and left another mess...Like the Stadium in Wasilla---that they are having a hard time paying for...and the Commission she left to run for Gov---with no resolution--- Of course, more will come out but ARE WE SURPRISED >..? NO , I am not ...Big mouth, not brains or cattle!
Perfect to compete with limpbow!
Palin’s own questionable panels revealed
Aug. 11: Huffington Post’s Shannyn Moore discusses Alaska’s poor health care plans while under the leadership of former Gov. Sarah Palin.
Let's not forget -- this didn't happen in a State with a depressed economy, it occurred during the great oil bubble rip-off. When Alaska was flush with money.
she'll get away with this crime.
IOKIYAR
I think the tables are slowly turning.
I like to know when they are going to make this a MSM issue. It should be exposed.
it WAS for the good of the Alaska! Think of the carnage had she stayed.
is that these health care workers are unsure whether to assist the elderly or field dress them.
So when is this despicable bag of shit going to respond by whining about the media picking on her? Or how the federal government is picking on her and the report isn't true? It's obvious she doesn't have the emotional capacity to feel guilty about this.
and say hands off the grandparents and her 'special needs' child. then she'll immediately use them as props in her next schticKKK.
I wonder if liability for wrongful death reaches as far as the Governor's office.
it would be good to explore! She has left a mess whenever she quits...No hat, big mouth, no intellect, and only moose!
It would be a great benefit to the nation if the perpetrators of the lies were subject to truth drugs and factchecks......But maybe the vile beliefs go too deep! or they too stupid to recognize it!
The Information Age is upon us and the truth will not be denied..There is no BILL---from either house --so once again the Congress has not done their job.
Call them locally---firmly but politely or at the Congressional switch board 1.800.828.0498 or 1.866.220.0044..Tell them what you want or what you are afraid of!
for the bathroom!
The level of incompetence is appalling and totally criminal. The people of the state of Alaska oughta let her have it!
The nerve of those stupid dead people, tryin' to make Sarah look bad.
(wink)
She's sooo mavericky...
I know its insane but Palin and all so inclined will see this as PROOF that govt care kills elderly.
And yet she wants to be queen of America.
She couldn't be queen of a bunch of bees, the hive would move on and leave her behind.
she would have been an 80 year old cancer patient's heartbeat away from POTUS...
I truly shudder to think.
Let them eat moose!
Thank you Logan for doing this post. When I heard about it last night on Keith's show, I was so hoping that it would get covered here.
She'll find someone else to blame this on, that's how she rides. Screw up and just find someone else and say it's their fault. Blame the media, the bloggers, which way the fish are running, Levi, hollywood, the list gets longer every day.
It's about time some one says it: What an evil, worthless c%#t.
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She's not even that good.
After all - Obama has to hire Death Panels
while Sarah does it all by her lonesome
and therefore also the free market, too that is to say!
Good thing she quit or the death toll could have been twice as high.
Other, more eloquent people than I have commented: "Republicans claim that government doesn't work; then they run for government jobs, and once in them, PROVE it doesn't work!"
"Government" is not an entity; it is PEOPLE! If you elect competent individuals who appoint and oversee OTHER competent people, it works quite well. If you appoint incompetent, unqualified people (like the former head of the Arabian Horseowners's Assn.) to FEMA, you get bad government.
This needs to be hammered home repeatedly because, as FilthyHarry said above, you can bet the right will use the problems in Alaska's health care system for the elderly to scream that it provides proof that government health care is bad.
The quality of governance is a function of the competence and goals of the elected officials. Modern republicans do not believe in government (except insofar as it favors them personally) so they do everything in their power to diminish it.
they just wait for the next time sara winks, then bring out gingrinch to support whateverthefucKKK she says.
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I'd like to report an error in the above text. You included "honor" and "Sarah Palin" in the same sentence, which is obviously a mistake.
From now on, every liberal who goes on corporate TV needs their first question to be "why don't you guys practice journalism anymore? Are you so afraid of right-wing lawsuits and boycotts that you don't even bother to pretend to care about facts and the truth anymore?"
Sure, the only result will be fewer liberals on corporate TV, but at least *something* would change...
Looks like Sarah had her own death panels. So long as it wasn't any of her family members, fuck em.
We should ask Mudflats about this -- are there any records of meetings wherein medical personnel in the state health-care system asked for funding for nurses, and were denied?
If so, those records should be made public.
Palin's hypocrisy and incompetence came as a surprise to no one.
"Thank you for relying on the government. Now DIE!"
@_@
Somebody had better keep an eye on Trig; she won't be needing that prop anymore.
What a horrible, vile individual.
November 2008 headline
on a corpse
Whenever Palin is on tv...I can see stupid from my couch!
a mascot and huge diversion/distraction. she offers no solutions, no creativity, no curiousity....... just bullshxt.
Every single time a Repuke makes some ludicrous statement accusing a Dem of something, they are talking about something they themselves are involved in and are trying to deflect the blame.
Every.
Single.
Time.
think alike...... if a republican walks into a party with shxt on his shirt and you ask him what happened he'll just smear some shxt on your shirt and walk away.
They are experts at projection. Little did we know that Palin was talking about her own death panels on her Facebook page.
Obviously they have cut back on mental health care in Alaska.
But Trig's ok, right?
I bet these hundreds don't even get the courtesy of a formal death panel hearing.
How many of you have seen the video of the large black woman being manhandled by security out of McCaskill's town hall? Once again the media failed to show the truth. She was showing someone from the local media a Rosa Parks sign she made when a teabagger came and took it from her and ripped it up. But the media only showed her yelling and being dragged away. Here's the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zfawMm-So&eu...
Once again, it's the violent suppressing conservatives. Be afraid be people, be very afraid.
Wow, interesting! What happened to the guy in blue who grabbed her sign and trashed it? He was led away in the other direction.
I hope someone investigates this incident further. Thanks for posting that link, Gump!
I read over at DailyKos that he got arrested.
Real Story Behind Ejection At McCaskill Town Hall - Racist Destroyed Woman's Picture Of Rosa Parks
She just makes stuff up. Has she written her political career obituary?
supposed to do," she said.
No shit. Doesn't even have a clue to what "govern" means either.
Here's the Republican's rising deathstar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zfawMm-So&eu...
out of touch, unqualified clusterfuck of a person.
Sounds like GOP Presidential material to me!
Do they even have a population in the hundreds?
If you are talking ginormous 747 sized mosquitos, yes.
BTW, Alaska is one of the ugliest most depressing pos places I have ever had the uncomfortable displeasure of visiting.
Ummm...my great great great great uncle bought the joint while Secretary of State.
Not that Alaskans would recognize my last name which is different.
But a certain Southern state, that's one of the original 13 colonies might.
really messed the place up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBzvYMom6bg&fe...
Repubs accuse Dems of crafting a health care policy that will essentially be a "govt" eugenics program...
and then next thing you know...(hundreds die) and...
It turns out that "govt" (a repub one this time) ...is actually incredibly already actively engaged enabling/practicing...a eugenics program!
dems and repubs should start killing each other...before one or the other starts killing each other...
Izzat a Nazi salute?
Quick someone Photoshop that sucker, stat!
Don't you see? This just PROVES that that the gov't can't run healthcare.
Its the miracle of being a Republican. The worse you do, the more it supports the idea that the gov't is incompetent.
Its one of the few things in the world where your abject failure only helps to prove your point, and the GOP knows this. As Krugman would say, you cannot trust a party to run the government when that party wholeheartedly believes that the gov't cannot be run well.
That Sarah Palin was in charge of a "death panel"? I believe it does.
it looks like she was trying to solve the problem before she left:
http://www.govtech.com/gt/259987
That proposed bill had nothing to do with care the state was already responsible for providing.
From your link:
Emphasis is mine.
Yes she was trying to repeal it. You left out the next two paragraphs of the story.
"CON is a regulatory process that requires certain health care providers to obtain state approval before offering certain new or expanded services.
Health and Social Services Commissioner Karleen Jackson concluded that the CON program does not benefit the citizens of Alaska, given the litigious environment surrounding it."
Palin was trying to get the middlemen out of the way.
...right up until she quit.
the program is not about 'middlemen', but rather:
And, it applies to hospital, nursing homes, and psychiatric centers, home health aides are a completely different area of care.
See:
it is a slow, costly project that prevents people from getting rational health planning, health care quality, access to health care - typical government involvement that results in people not getting the care they need.
Death Camps:
Wow! For once she really does know about a subject of which she speaks.
Who wudda thunk it?
I'd like to see dear Sarah on jeopardy . Just a thought .
Good grief, she doesn't even hold an office and anything that flows out of her foul mouth is reported more than the president's words. Let's hope the US political dirt storm doesn't contract down to her word against Obama's in the next few years. Shudder.
As an Alaskan with a disability, I know for a fact, that help for the elderly and disabled, there is a MANDATORY six month waiting period you have to endure while they see if you're qualified. Now I know, I am far from qualified, I only applied because some 'panel' said it was a requirement; I'm not that disabled; but ...a lot of people are, especially in the elderly category, and being told one must wait half a year before they can receive any care is just wrong.
I was in Bangkok last August, when John McCain announced he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. The TV sound was off, and words "McCain Chooses Palin fo VP", all I could think of was Michael Palin. As a member of the "Monty Python's Flying Circus" comedy troupe, Michael would have been a better choice.
Now that the US voters have rejected the Bush/McCain brand of fascism, it's fun to hear them whine about how bad it is to have a black president. I'm looking forward to Obama's reelection.
You all know it states in the constitution, for the people and by the people. It also states that if the current Gov't no longer works to remove said Gov't and form a new one. This is what party politics has brought us to !!! These self serving jackasses have screwed the Gov't up to the point that, yes it doesn't work. The american people must act now if we are to save this great country. We have sat too long on the side, while politicians work for their own benifit and the special interest groups that line their pockets !!! There is so much bullcrap going on in this country today. What is so hard about this health care issue. We see the problem, now just fix it !!! but instead we are argueing over who's way is best. In the mean time people young and old are suffering and not receiving the health care they need to live. The truth of it is health care may not be a constitutional right, but it is a human right !!! What has happen to compassion for our fellow man. If our forefathers saw what is taking place in our country today, the country they fought for and died for that gave us the rights and the freedoms we have today. Would they sit and argue over who's way is best, NO !!! they would act in the best interest of all the people. Can you see the word PEOPLE !!!!! They would work with one another for one another, with the care and compassion for the people they serve. I've listened to all points of view on this issue and many other issues, and to tell you the truth i just don't know who to believe. I do believe this, that this great nation can not a ford to continue the way things are now. If we do we are surely doomed. We as a people should be concentrating on the greatest quality of life for every american, not who's view on health care is better. We as a people have the ability to over come all the oposition in these issues, if we just remember that we all have human rights to the greatest quality of life. Life so precious and wonderous, a baby that opens it eyes for the first time to see a mothers smiling face, or a grandmother of 90 who shares a smile with her grandchildern. How could any of us look in to their faces and deny them the best that life has to offer. I believe this is the greatest country in the world, with this said we should be leading the world to the GREATEST QUALITY of life that man kind has to offer. But instead we are fighting over healthcare that is not working for the benifit of its people. Am i crazy or does this sound absolutely ludicrous. PLEASE america, I implore you to put away your petty differences and work together for a better tomorrow not just for you yourselves but for our future childerns childern. If I have said anything here that doesn't make sense please forgive me I am not the most educated man, but I do love my country and the people who live in it. This great nation must lead by example in all things if we are to survive to a better future. Bless you all and may the future bring you health,happyness,and good fortune. Thank you for the opportunity to voice my opinion. This is truely a great country we live in.
We do have death panels, and they do decide who receives health care.
They are called "Health Insurance Companies".
We need to push this into the public's consciousness.
But I call 'em "death boards" as in "death boards of directors."
Shout it far, wide, loud and often!
Heart-rendingly, a triage process might (but hopefully not) be necessary , but it should be based on other factors that $ (the almighty god of the right, and *unbridled* capitalism is their religion).
But even then, a clearly terminal patient could be made comfortable. But I hope, hope, hope, this is not needed.
But these demons do it for excess profit.
With campaign finance reform, death insurance companies could not buy what are supposed to be our representatives in order to turn them into theirs.
Free campaigns --> no need to suck up to murderers.
E Pleb Neesta --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b56e0u0EgQ
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJUj8HJ4D8
And for fun, Rock Ek Casbah --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbFYsi9iSg
She'll blame it all on Levi Johnston.
Yet she wants us to listen to her insights on the proposed bills. Go away Sarah. You're time in the spotlight is up.
If all this is true about Palin. What can be done? Is there anything criminal that has takin place, and if so what should the charges be? Why do we not hold Gov't reponsible for crimes against the american people? Lets take a vote is there anyone out there who thinks Palin did anything criminal. And what should be done to her for said crimes? I would also like to know if anyone would vote for her in any election anywhere in the future? ISN'T this what gov't is supposed to be? The people deciding what is best for themselves and then having the gov't make it law!!!! So why do we let the gov't protect itself from criminal prosecution? If Palin is guilty of a crime then she should be held accountable for her crimes. I do not live in AK. so I don't know the stories behind these allocations. But what I do know is anyone who would willingly do harm to anyone either directly or indirectly through their actions is not the type of person I want in my gov't and they should be prosecuted for crimes against the human race!!! So not with standing all the comments here if we are so sure a crime has been commited, why not bring her up on charges of incompetence and dereliction of her duty as governor.
A death panel didn't make the decisions!
god did. And that's, ya know, a-ok with me.
I had wanted to let 'em free and hunt 'em from a helicopter (psycho a mano), but we couldn't find a gas can, donchaknow.
EPN
Why is Alaska the only state with this problem?? No other state is under this moratorium.
Is anyone surprised with this? The woman is an incompetent.
Thank GOD she was not elected to VP.
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