Source: CBS
House Budget Chair Paul Ryan, a Republican, and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, introduced a bipartisan solution for the future of Medicare. Nancy Cordes reports on the details.

This is chilling. A neurosurgeon called in to Mark Levin’s radio program to tell of a conference he attended with HHS in Washington, DC. He says what he learned is not currently available to the public was only shared with neurosurgeons. He says the “death panels” are in fact real. Listen to what he says. And then tell everyone you know.

Here’s what the always despicable Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi had to say today:

(H/T Hot Air)

He’s actually happy that many employers are planning to drop health care coverage for workers under ObamaCare which will force them into the government option.

This is a prime example of “death panels” in action. The head of Britain’s NHS who advises local health clinics how to best spend their government funds (how to best ration care) has some advice on premature babies. Let them die.

Dr Austin, who advises local health trusts how to spend their budgets, said doctors were ‘doing more harm than good by resuscitating 23-weekers’ and that treatments have ‘very marginal benefit’.

The NHS spends around £10million a year resuscitating babies born this early and keeping them alive on incubators and ventilators.

But despite round-the-clock care from teams of experienced doctors and nurses, just 9 per cent leave hospital – the rest die. And only one in 100 grows up without some form of disability. The most common include blindness, deafness and cerebral palsy.

Dr Austin said that the care given to such tiny infants should be weighed up in the same way as the NHS decides whether or not to fund treatment for dying cancer patients.

That is quite literally a death panel. Bureaucrats decide if the government will fund treatment for dying cancer patients, treat a premature baby, etc. If they decide you’re too old to warrant expensive cancer treatments then you die. The government decides who lives and who dies. That is the sick vision liberals have for the American health care system. ObamaCare is certainly not this, but it’s what Democrats were left with when they couldn’t get a British style health care system passed.

In 2009, Obama advisor Robert Reich said his message to old people is, “we’re going to let you die.”

As a conservative I’ve been pretty much alone in my defense of Planned Parenthood over the years. Most conservatives I know want to shut Planned Parenthood down, but I’ve always argued that they provide valuable medical care to poor people beyond just abortions. They provide free contraception and only charge what you can afford. A friend of mine was able to get a full gynecological exam and birth control pills for about $25. That’s a wonderful thing.

Unfortunately, a new video sting released today I’m simply unable to defend. It’s frankly horrifying. The PP clinic targeted is in New Jersey. It’s not your typical wink-wink by a nurse for an underage abortion either. It goes so far beyond that it’s hard to believe. In short, it’s devastating. I wouldn’t be surprised if the GOP tries to defund the organization this week. I can’t say I blame them. If Planned Parenthood is going to be run like ACORN then tax payers shouldn’t have to pay for it. And people should go to prison.

Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi spoke to her adoring fan base in the media today. She said they’d have passed ObamaCare even if every single person in America had access to health coverage and was happy with it. In other words, nothing was going to stand in the way of a government takeover of health care.

It doesn’t really matter what Stretch and her cronies want, because ObamaCare is a dead man walking. I’m betting SCOTUS will rule 5-4 in our favor that the health care mandate is unconstitutional. Once that happens the rest of the program will fall apart. The entirety of ObamaCare hinges on the government’s ability to force people to get health coverage.

(hat tip Breitbart TV)

Representative-elect Joe Walsh (R-IL) says he’s sticking by the Tea Party principles that got him elected and is refusing the congressional health care plan.

“I don’t think congressmen should get pensions or cushy health care plans,” he said.

All that sounds good, but it looks like he’ll be sleeping on the couch:

…it‘s a decision that’s not being welcomed by everyone in his family. Walsh’s wife has a pre-existing medical condition, and she’ll now be charged with the difficult task of finding a plan on the open market.

Why would she have a “difficult time” finding a health plan on the open market? I thought ObamaCare made it illegal for health care providers to refuse people with pre-existing conditions.

From CNN:

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled parts of the sweeping health care reform effort led by President Obama to be unconstitutional.

This is the first federal court to strike down the law, contradicting other recent rulings the law was permissible. The key issue of contention was the "individual mandate" requirement that most Americans purchase health insurance by 2014.

The case is Virginia v. Sebelius.

You can read the ruling here.

I love how the left continues to lampoon Sarah Palin for her “death panels” comment. No matter what liberals say or call it, “death panels” is EXACTLY what they want. Meaning they want a panel of bean counters to tell old people they cannot have heart surgery or the latest cancer drug. Liberals consider that a waste of perfectly good medical care. This was what Robert Reich said and it’s precisely what Tom Daschle is advocating.

In the words of soon-to-be ex-Congressman Alan Grayson, Daschle’s message to seniors is “DIE QUICKLY.”