The Obamacare Death Panels Have Begun for Disabled Children
Today, a ten year-old little girl, Sarah Murnaghan, is dying in Philadelphia –dying of cystic fibrosis. The same disease my son, Gunner, suffers from. She needs a lung transplant to live or her life will be cut short in the next three to five weeks. Because of government regulations, she cannot be added to the adult/adolescent lung transplant list because she is under 12. And because pediatric lungs are so rare – only 11 were donated in 2012 – her only chance for survival is to be entered into the adult/adolescent lung transplant list and wait her turn.
Her doctors believe that if she gets the opportunity to have an adult/adolescent lung transplant she will survive. And her family has publicly stated that they aren’t asking for any special favors or to jump ahead of the line – just be entered into the line.
But the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has said “no” – effectively making her a one-woman death panel.
A woman called and debated Sean Hannity on this subject under the impression Sebelius worked for an evil insurance company. Upon the revelation that this is the DHS woman placed in charge of ObamaCare, the woman blamed FOX News for misleading her.
The supporters of ObamaCare are delusional.
I don’t know what you’re making a fuss about. Progressive ethicist Pete Singer says this is perfectly fine.