Palin Re-Enters Health Debate While Quietly Stepping Away from McCain

“Everyone is not rich, wealthy, or even ‘comfortable’.” Typical Democrat
“The government cannot make us happy, healthy, wealthy, or wise” Governor Sarah Palin

#1- over 1/2 of the so called people without health care is illigal and should get no insurance or health care except for that needed during their deportation.
#2- If you read what bills are out there you will find they are set to take your choices away and give the decission about what to do with your health in the hands of the likes of Franks, Dobbs, Rangel but they will not take the health care they want you to take.
#3- No one in the country goes with out health care if they need and want it. over 1/4 of those that don’t have health care qualify for medicare but don’t sign up for it.
It looks like it is time to say good bye to Obamacare and start over cause our health care does need some work. Tort reform, allow insurance companies to sell in all states.

@Jenny- She’s not GOVENOR Palin anymore….
Oh… and she NEVER will be PRESIDENT Palin either.

Palin has absolutely no credibility. She is an airhead. Walks out as governor, her home life is a mess, and she spreads lies and fear. She should go crawl back under her rock.

Jenny you can’t be serious…..Palin as President…she’s not qualified!!!! Move on and find another canidate for 2010.

I agree completely with Barb–who even listens to Palin? We had enough of her in the last campaign to last a life-time!

I always liked Sen. McCain’s plan and it’s too bad that it’s not even being considered now. McCain’s plan would have provided incentives and financial assistance to buy health insurance. Obama’s plan mandates that everyone buy health insurance and imposes a fine (nearly $1,000 for a single, $3,000 for a family) for not buying it.
But that’s what the people want, so that’s what we’re gonna get and a few years down the road, we’ll see stories in the media of people in severe financial hardship because they can’t afford to buy insurance and can’t afford to pay the fine (IRS will come for them and force them to pay).

Barb – Just because you say Palin is an airhead doesn’t make it so and you must be kidding when you make your comment about she should not be allowed in any dicussions because she is now a private citizen. This is a republic – so all private citizens should speak their mind. Sorry barb – we like Sara – always have. The media does not. We will see in 2012

Palin is an embrassment to the female population with her “off remarks”, which the majority of the time leave us trying to understand where she got such a thought and if she is really serious?.

I’m glad ABC is covering Governor Palin’s very succinct, and well-reasoned Op-Ed piece. And I’m delighted that Sarah Palin has the courage to stand up and plainly state her ideas and her opposition. It seems like anyone with a view different than the administration’s is being called names.
Of course, Governor Palin will always draw attention and ridicule, simply because her opponents recognize someone with the transformative power to bring common sense and fiscal prudence back into government.
It’s really easy to say: Let the government take care of me. But that’s not what government is for. The government will always run out of other people’s money — and then the rationing will begin.
If the government would help level the playing field for exising insurance competitors, and reduce frivolous malpractice lawsuits, prices would fall for everyone.
And we would remain free to choose from among 1,300 insurers – instead of being given a government default.

Um no one here is jealous of Sarah Palin shes a total airhead. It’s rediculous you quote her like she was some grand political philosopher. She’s a quitter plain and simple… can’t argue with that.

Given La Palin´s problems with English grammar and syntax, it would be interesting to know just who actually wrote this article, or how many red pencils the editors used in making the corrections.

Sarah Palin? Who is really writing her speeches? She is not bright enough to get our of a paper bag. Or then she might have x-ray vision. She can see Russia from her home so she knows Russians.

Palin for President!
Stick it to these lying liberals who are intent with destroying our country.
Ten seconds after being sworn in, by executive order, eliminate all the damage done by this inexperienced hack they call Obama.

Wish the GOP would stop calling names & using buzz words ….. like socialism …. you know that is not the case …. you are just repeating what someone else has said.

“It seems like anyone with a view different than the administration’s is being called names.”
You know, I see nothing wrong with not agreeing with something the current administration does.
What I don’t like are all the labels put on EVERYTHING the current administration does, which are generally done with no real knowledge of what the current administration is really doing …..
Example: How can any American citizen, Democrat or Republican, think that a simple speech to children in school about staying in school is a ploy to brainwash children & be crying on TV about it.
There is so much distrust on the part of very vocal GOP-ers that they just make things up & scare their supporters. I can so plainly see this ….. I don’t know how some of their supporters cannot.
I think I could see this no matter what political party was doing it. I think it’s completely unfair to the general public who don’t seem to want to do their own research, who choose to take somebody (politician) at their word & continue to repeat mis-information.
I live in the reddest state in the US. Everyone here repeats it all (the name-calling & mis-information & lies)& I hear it all.
What causes this ….. jealousy that a Republican did not win the election?
There are 2 parties (actually 3 if you want to count Independents) ….. one of them is going to be elected by the majority. Your man/woman may not always be the one.

I am an Independent that believes that Sarah is someone that should not be taken seriously.. What has happened to the intellectual wing of the Republican party.. I don’t agree with everything the President proposes, but at least he allows those that disagree with him to ask questions through interviews, news conference, etc… Sarah is terrified of interviews since her debacle on the national stage. A true leader stand up for their beliefs and is not afraid to be challenged. Which is probably the reason she quit on Alaska when things got hot.. Face America, she does not have the intellectual vigor to be taken seriously.

Beck/Palin
The perfect ticket!!!

Let me add that I think having a background in healthcare would be beneficial too. Sarah Palin can you honestly wrap your thinking around all these issues that are so important to the American People! We need well-rounded individuals with THINKING SKILLS and COMMUNICATION SKILLS to run our Nation. Let’s begin that approach and remember what the U.S. and World Constitutions represents to all of humanity, here in America and abroad.

The president had the nerve to openly call Sarah Palin a liar last night. I think that was wrong and very bad form and he should apologize for it just as congressman Wilson should apologize for his outburst. Their actions were both wrong! I also think if the president’s health care reform is passed we will soon see who the real liar is and who it is not. I have an awful feeling it’s not Sarah Palin although I hope for all of our sakes it is!

First, most states insurance plans is based on income and families sizes and disabilities. And, single persons or family compositions, without children are often ineligible.
Secondly, as states budgets gets squeezed, they either reduce access to apply for their insurance plans, reduce the rolls by either denying, delaying decisions or finding ways to dis-enroll.
In Indiana, 2out of 3 application for Medicaid is denied or delayed in a decision being reached, and in the State Insurance Plan for under income workers, there is an income level for eligibility that is below the 150 % poverty level, and if you are single, you are ineligible.
Try accessing your state ” prescription assistance program” and see the limitation and access difficulties. You have to be ineligible and denied for all “programs” before you can apply.
I spend countless hours, after my day job, assisting seniors, disabled, unemployed and single working persons in accessing “health care programs”.
And, on the topic of Malpractice, most states have alread capped Medical Malpractice Awards, and reformed the compliant process. In Indiana there is a panel for review, before litigation, and a cap of $300,000; $100,000 from the doctor or hospital, $100,00 from the insurance company, and $100,000 from a state funded pool. This occurred more then 10 years ago, and malpractice insurance cost have not In serious error cases, $1M cap.
The Tort Reform argument is simply a red herring, used as an excuse rather then ask the hard question as to why malpractice insurance keep rising above the yearly cost of living. Check out your state Tort or Medical Malpractice Reform and Cap, and you willbe surprised.
Finally, I find it interesting that we are unwilling to cover undocuments persons. Most work, and have sociak security, unemployment, county, state and federal taxes taking out of their pay. Who cover them when they get hurt on the job? An accident or serious illness? Most have already paid for medical assistance, via their tax deductions. And, we also pay as a hidden tax. Excluding them from taxes does not help in reducing health care cost.
Just my 2 cent.

Agree she is smarter than she lets on and a master manipulator . She may well be a challenge to Obama. It would be a shame, but she has the ego and the ability to appeal to the lowest common denominator as well as the extreme right intelligent educated (I find that weird but true) and she gives a good speech even if full of not very nice
barbs and low blows. We will see what lies in the future for the next generation. Thank goodness I am old enough not to have to deal with the likes of her being in the White House

Typing too fast. “Your guests”
Apologies offered for all my previous errors in grammer and/or spelling.
Dementia you know.

“Death Panel” Palin was in the health care reform debate? She has an op-ed piece in the Right-Wing Wall Strees Journal? Come on, who wrote it for her? The WSJ will not be printing stuff like gonna, thinkin, doin and fishin very reradily.

Sara Palin has a degree in journalism. She may speak in a rather odd fashion sometimes, but her writing is professional. When she speaks, she tells the truth. What a refreshing thing THAT is. Obama lies, like all good liberals, because he has no ethics or morals. He cannot have ethics or morals because he thinks that there is no such thing as sin. He commits sins against the 8th Commandment every time he talks. Oh yes, and he is creepy.

What is this, a rebuttal to Palin’s op-ed? It looks like it was written by David Axlerod. Every single day we see the MSM morphing into a caricature of itself. Makes me chuckle.

I hope Palin runs for President. Everybody likes to watch a good train wreck.

If you honestly think Palin is somehow a better alternative to, well, anything and you plan on voting for her in 2012, you should have your voting privileges removed because you obviously not in any condition to have a say in who leads the country.
It’s almost like you prefer your stupid next door neighbor who happens to spend a lot of money on clothes running the country because you identify more w/her incredible levels of ignorance than you do someone who actually took the time to get educated.
Oh, that’s right. In this country, thanks to moronic leaders like Palin, being ignorant is actually a good thing. Those goody-two shoes, smarty-pants politicians who had the nerve to engage in higher learning are too elitist for you soccer moms, right?
Oh, and Mother of Three, keep what you said about the government not taking care of you the next time you need the police, the fire department, or the next time you send your precious children to a public school.

I see that the Palin fanatics and undereducated or poorly educated or brainwashed disciples pouring out from the cracks like roaches again. No real reason or real thoughts to why she makes sense on any subject including God. No real foundation or understanding of the REAL world and a lie in your face suggestion that Palin or any of these followers have any concern whatsoever for their fellow human brothers and sisters. There is nothing real here and pay no attention to that person behind the curtain. Palin is as false as they come. President? Don’t make me laugh!

Posted by: keys2truth | Sep 9, 2009 6:23:21 PM: It is not rage but amazement that people with any intelligence would listen to Palin and not see what a false person she is. She is real only in how poorly educated and experienced she tries to make herself out to be. It is totally incredible that anyone would find this woman worth listening to at all. It is so very disappointing to me to see how low our standards of professionalism and respect and intelligence of come to in America today. I fear the most for your children’s futures if the trend continues. We could easily reach the third world title if we continue to revel in our stupidity. So no, again, it is not anger, it is amazement and disappointment.