On Sunday, August 16, Richard Shelby, the senior republican senator from Alabama, was being interviewed on Fox News by commentator Chris Wallace.
The subject of the discussion was health care, and the conversation came down to the question of whether or not health care would be rationed in a public option. After J. James Rohack, the president of the AMA stated that health care is already rationed by the private insurance companies, Chris Wallace turned to senator Shelby and asked, with unusual candidness for Fox News, if there was any hypocrisy in the GOP at this point, given actions of the Bush administration involving end of life counseling and health care rationing. The senator deflected the question and responded,
"... let's be honest, when you start rationing health care and you start counseling [for end of life options] too far into life, you are going to create problems and you are going to create fear in this country."
Really? A staunch supporter of the former Bush administration worrying about spreading fear? I could have sworn, given the behavior of the GOP over the last decade, that they would be into this kind of thing. Fear mongering for political advancement is almost a sport for the conservative movement. Maybe they should be into death panels after all... can you imagine the fear?
"... let's be honest, when you start rationing health care and you start counseling [for end of life options] too far into life, you are going to create problems and you are going to create fear in this country."
Really? A staunch supporter of the former Bush administration worrying about spreading fear? I could have sworn, given the behavior of the GOP over the last decade, that they would be into this kind of thing. Fear mongering for political advancement is almost a sport for the conservative movement. Maybe they should be into death panels after all... can you imagine the fear?
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