Ruth Ann Minner Quotes
Another challenging issue facing our correctional system is the delivery of adequate health care services. As you know, the inmate population is very difficult to serve. Often people who arrive at our institutions have high health risk factors and have long neglected medical conditions.
Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware, State of the State Address, January 19, 2006
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This notorious quotation was the first time anyone had ever used the term "death panels". As Wickipedia says,"Death panel" is a term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States. Sarah Palin, former Republican Governor of Alaska, coined the term when she charged that proposed legislation would create a "death panel" of bureaucrats who would decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents or children with Down's syndrome—were "worthy of medical care." When Palin was challanged to show where in the proposed Obamacare bill, there was any mention of dealth panels or anything like them, Palin's spokesperson pointed to Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options. But there was absolutly nothing about withholding medial care. Just the opposite Obama care guaranteed medical care to many millions more Americans regardless opf age or medical condition. However, the bill was ovr 2000 pages long and very few people had read most of it, including the members of Congress who voted for and agaisnt it. A number of conservatives repeated the false accusatuins (See Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) Quotation 644139. One poll showed that after it spread, about 85% of respondents were familiar with the charge and of those who were familiar with it, about 30% thought it was true and Palin's new term won the dubius distinction of winning the "Lie of the Year" award. Despite the fact that it was totally false, in order to win Obamacare be a single vote, the President had to eliminate the part of the bill that allowed payment to physicians to take the time and explain to patients and/or their families, the various options of palliative treatment during the last months of life. Many people thought that the doctors would form death panels.
This quotation is interesting for two reasons: First, President Donald Trump had campagned on teh promise of Universal Health Insurance and in the early days of the Tramp Administration, Trump's Manager of the Office of Management and Budget effectivly repudiated Trum's campaign promise. Second, it ilustrates the narrownss to the thinking of soem of the very conservative politicians of the era. Virtually every industiral democracy in the world had universial health or health insurance coverage. Mulvaney's thinking was limited to teh classic U. S. model of health insurance premiums being paid by individuals and companies to privat insurance companies. Yet most other countries had teh government coelect the money and pay the health providers (the single payer system) of simply funded universal ehalth care through the general tax revenues, and had no specific act of buying a policy so there was no way for people to refuse.
Ruth Ann Minner is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the 72nd (and, to date, only female) Governor of Delaware from 2001 to 2009. She previously served as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Delaware and in the Delaware General Assembly.
