All of this makes me want to call the Wahmbulance for myself. Will that be covered by Obamacare?

Ok, so. The health care “debate” has gotten to be a real shit show, hey? Let me throw a couple of things out there.

First: Socialism and Fascism are mutually-fucking-exclusive. Let’s just all get that straight right now.

Second:  “End-of-life care,” (aka: Obama’s Diabolical Plan to Kill Old People For No Discernible Reason Other Than Democrats Apparently Hate Old People Now) as introduced into the health care bill now in the House refers to, you know, “end-of-life care.” Not “end-your-life care.” For anyone who has not been alive and speaking to any other people during any portion of their adult life, “end-of-life care” is an actual term used in the actual health care industry to describe the creation of a living will that actually outlines things like: whether or not the patient would like heroic measures taken to save their lives, how long they want to be left on a ventilator, etc. This is an actual process that already takes place — and now it would be covered by Medicare. That’s all. Seriously, read the provision if you don’t believe me.

Third: Some people think this means that old people would have to meet for end-of-life discussions, simply because it would now be covered. If an old person falls down and breaks their hip, Medicare covers the medical costs. This does not make breaking one’s hip mandatory. Larry Summers does not freelance on weekends cracking bones in bingo halls.

Fourth: One of the most common complaints about liberals from the right is that they spend too much money caring for people who aren’t economically productive enough to care for themselves. Sarah Palin thinks that:

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care.

So, Obama wants to spend too much money taking care of people whose “level of productivity in society” is such that they cannot take care of themselves. He also wants to kill those selfsame people. These are, again, ideas that are mutually-fucking-exclusive.

Fifth: Some people need to go back and watch some School House Rock. This bill is still being drafted in the House. Into said bill, three Democrats and three Republicans sponsored a provision providing for the End of Life coverage linked above. The bill still has to pass in the House and then the Senate. Then Obama will have the opportunity to sign it. He is not writing the bill. He is not writing its provisions. If all of his political aspirations revolved around the creation of his very own “death panel” (and, by the by: “death panel”? Really?), he would have stayed in the Senate where he actually had the power to introduce such provisions. At this point, you’d be more apt in calling this “Susan Collins’ death panel.” But not any less fucking stupid.

Also, for those who need it: