Why doesn't anyone in the U.S. government want Obamacare for themselves? - UPDATE

No surprise here: The White House has approved a deal that will exempt members of Congress and their staff from some of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act

They all know that Obamacare is shit and, while they didn't mind sticking it to us in March, 2010, the last thing they wanted is to have to live with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act themselves because it actually endangers patients and is the opposite of affordable!

But what none of them realizes, yet, is that it's not going to be that easy for anyone to find a doctor and Obamacare is crippling our hospitals!

And what about their relatives, friends, and families? (I suppose their families are not going to be stuck with it either, but they all have friends who will.)

You are going to hear horror stories from them as this thing they've created takes over what used to be a great health care system!

Government medicine has proved an excruciating disaster in the U.K. and Canada but the Democrats did this to us because, as Vladimir Lenin stated: “Medical care is the keystone in the arch of socialism.”

UPDATE: Howard Dean Admits Obamacare Includes Death Panels, Wants Them Repealed

Obama sneaks "death panels" in through the back door while no one's looking

WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.

Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon)--author of the original "death panel" legislation--instructs his cohorts to conceal the information:

We would ask that you not broadcast this accomplishment out to any of your lists, even if they are ‘supporters’ — e-mails can too easily be forwarded.

TRANSPARENCY is the big lie in the Obama administration!

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UPDATE (FYI):
Bush vetoed the end of life provision that went into law in 2008!

Liberals Love Death Panels

When a bill with death panels in it was in front of the American people, liberals claimed to be against death panels. But isn't it funny that since Obamacare became law, stories about liberals who support death panels keep dribbling out?

The first death panel death sentence under Obamacare

As of October 1, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System will no longer pay for liver transplants for patients with Hepatitis C; certain heart and bone marrow transplants; or lung and pancreas transplants...

Democratic candidate Gary McDowell (MI) agreed with those Obamacare supporters that think giving lifesaving medical care to seniors at end of life is a “resource” that needs to be rationed.

McDowell even makes a joke of the issue by saying that those that say end-of-life care should be rationed must be “from a safe district” because the “inconvenient truth” as he sees it is a tough pill to swallow...

Sarah Palin was right...

...Barack Obama’s nationalized health care bill includes powerful health care rationing “death panels.”

Sarah Palin confirms "death panels" in Reid health care bill

Democrats are protecting this rationing “death panel” from future change with a procedural hurdle. You have to ask why they’re so concerned about protecting this particular provision. Could it be because bureaucratic rationing is one important way Democrats want to “bend the cost curve” and keep health care spending down?

The Congressional Budget Office seems to think that such rationing has something to do with cost. In a letter to Harry Reid last week, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf noted (with a number of caveats) that the bill’s calculations call for a reduction in Medicare’s spending rate by about 2 percent in the next two decades, but then he writes the kicker:

“It is unclear whether such a reduction in the growth rate could be achieved, and if so, whether it would be accomplished through greater efficiencies in the delivery of health care or would reduce access to care or diminish the quality of care.”

Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call “death panels” the “lie of the year,” this type of rationing – what the CBO calls “reduc[ed] access to care” and “diminish[ed] quality of care” – is precisely what I meant when I used that metaphor.

This health care bill is one of the most far-reaching and expensive expansions of the role of government into our lives. We’re talking about putting one-seventh of our economy under the government’s thumb. We’re also talking about something as intimate to our personal well-being as medical care.

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Paging Sarah Palin: the death panel is unkillable

...the issue Jim DeMint raised on the floor of the Senate last night. Why did the authors of the legislation want to specially protect the Independent Medicare Advisory Board by making it difficult for future Congresses to legislate in that area? Because the heart of the bill is the attempt to get control of our health care permanently in the hands of federal bureaucrats, who would allegedly know better than doctors and patients what’s good for them, and who would cut access to care and the quality of care so there’s more money left over for various big government liberal social programs.

As people learn more about the sleazy sweetheart deals and the creepy permanent death panels—this thing could still go down in the House next month in the face of popular outrage.

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Section 3403: Repeal of health care bill is virtually impossible!!!

On December 21, 2009 Harry Reid sold out the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America:

Upon examination of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment to the health care legislation, Senators discovered section 3403. That section changes the rules of the United States Senate.

To change the rules of the United States Senate, there must be sixty-seven votes.

Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.” The good news is that this only applies to one section of the Obamacare legislation. The bad news is that it applies to regulations imposed on doctors and patients by the Independent Medical Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels.

Senate Sets Up Requirement for Super-Majority to Ever Repeal Obamacare

Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives

UK: Sentenced to death on the NHS