Gingrich Supported So-Called "Death Panels" A Few Months Ago

TrueSlant:

...[W]hat happens when suddenly the Republican party decides it wants to scare the shit out of a bunch of old people by telling them the new health care bill is going to include a provision in which "death panels" ask them "when they want to die"? Now all of the sudden Gingrich is violently against the same programs he was so windily praising earlier this year.

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Comments

[Professorofdesire]

11:14 AM on 08/14/2009

Neutered is a washed up, ethically challenged adulterer whose opinions are irrelevant to present day politics.

[bulldog6]

08:24 AM on 08/14/2009

I'd like to know who pays Gingrich's salary these days? Is he a paid official for some Republican Party organization?

Or is he living off his Congressional pension? Where are his bona fides as an expert on healthcare?

Unlike Palin, he can actually form sentences, so maybe that's his qualification.

[gamoonbat]

09:09 PM on 08/13/2009

This is the old Newt Gingrich that I knew and hated back when he was Speaker of the House!

[hallowellboy]

01:10 PM on 08/13/2009

Great picture of Gingrich. Mouth wide open with nothing coming out.

[kareemachan]

11:25 AM on 08/13/2009

"More than 20 percent of all Medicare spending occurs in the last two months of life. Gundersen Lutheran Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin has developed a successful end-of-life, best practice that combines: 1) community-wide advance care planning, where 90 percent of patients have advance directives; 2) hospice and palliative care; and 3) coordination of services through an electronic medical record. The Gundersen approach empowers patients and families to control and direct their care. The Dartmouth Health Atlas has documented that Gundersen delivers care at a 30 percent lower rate than the national average ($18,359 versus $25,860). If Gundersen’s approach was used to care for the approximately 4.5 million Medicare beneficiaries who die every year, Medicare could save more than $33 billion a year."

via Health Care Rx: Across the Country, Some Systems Are Getting It Right – Newt Gingrich.

Seems like he likes advance care planning there, doesn't it....

[MurCal]

10:07 AM on 08/13/2009

Yet another example of how even Huffington Post is allowing the repugs to frame the discussion in their inflammatory terms. There is no f***ing DEATH PANEL, but you've picked up the term and use it left and right in your headlines. Putting it in quotations doesn't matter. If everything gets framed in their language, they win.

[harmonikasavingsbonds]

08:44 AM on 08/13/2009

Rachel Maddow revealed a poll last night stating that 12% of South Carolina Conservatives do not believe in HAWAII.

YIKES!

[harmonikasavingsbonds]

12:09 PM on 08/13/2009

MY BAD. She said North Carolina.

[Layman23]

07:59 PM on 08/13/2009

Do they atleast believe that the civil was was over long time ago?

[Layman23]

01:37 AM on 08/13/2009

Gingrich has time and again proved what a hypocrite he is. In an interview with george stephanopolous george says "What you are saying is not in the bill !! " to which gingrich says "I dont know its 1000 pages".

Wow, the balls of these guys to go on TV and talk garbage about stuff without even reading it.

What more does the american public want to hear before they turn the lights off on these guys?

[Wilbur]

08:45 AM on 08/13/2009

The segment of the American public that fawns over the likes of Gingrich and Palin NEVER will "turn the lights off on these guys." That is because this segment has no interest in LEARNING and/or THINKING. All they want to do is HATE.

Wilbur

[JCCross]

03:13 PM on 08/13/2009

I couldn't agree more. Some people's only reason for existence is to hate someone else. I guess, for some people whose self-worth is so low, that they need to hate someone else, just to make themselves feel better. Sad. Very sad. Someone needs to tell them that hatred is NOT a family value!

[sviolette]

01:31 AM on 08/13/2009

Who the he!! cares what Newt thinks?

[AllenD]

12:14 AM on 08/13/2009

A Newt is a salamander type creature that lives in the mud and muck. No surprise here.

[rigmoten]

10:27 AM on 08/13/2009

Newts are gross. This one has evolved into a much more detestable creature.

[BambooHarvester]

10:32 PM on 08/12/2009

B.
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newt

[huffingt]

10:27 PM on 08/12/2009

We don't want our country to be like Russia but we will follow Russian Or ly
We are informed citizens, thus follow Pa li n , who sees Russia from her porch
We don't want socialism but social security, unemployment insurance and medicare
We want our country back - back from intellectual people
"We don't want govt. bureacrates, we can elect govt. Mo rans
We don't need to show my birth certificate, but demand others to show theirs
"We want States right for governance and succession but could use some stimulus money
We don't want govt control but stand by me at every crises & Katrina in my life
We are Americans so we excercise our rights over others
We are unique in our stu pi dity ,so, America is the only place for me
We are not angry mob,unamerican, nor militians, just boring left over teabagans
We ha te color people, but, presently on vacation in Pueto Rico to TAN my skin
We yell at meetings to say- hands off when my foot is in my mouth
We have values, but hard to practice in C street when lights are off
We don't mind false sided F news when delivered with a tear
We are fearful of death panel as it prohibits us from pulling the plug on my rich relatives
We know amendments - conceal drugs, alcohol, gu ns & soul mates
We parrot the word constitution- "Our Fore Fathers and Spouses wrote something -
I know they

[BambooHarvester]

10:32 PM on 08/12/2009

[KIVPossum]

10:20 PM on 08/12/2009

Newt is all for 'death panels' if they concentrate on blacks, browns, yellows, and liberals.

[NavyVet2008]

11:04 PM on 08/12/2009

True so true.

[rollingdivision]

10:12 PM on 08/12/2009

So there are the equivalent of death panels in the Democrats proposals and Gingrich supported them? This is very confusing, just what proposal is Obama supporting?

[Deja Peterson]

10:02 PM on 08/12/2009

funny thing about this whole situation, a republican is the one who legislated the idea, which had nothing to do with death panels.