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Palin Steps Up Attacks on Zeke Emanuel

Health adviser blasts 'misreading' as 'an absolute outrage'

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 14, 2009 10:41 AM CDT

(Newser) – Sarah Palin's supporters wanted her to make some noise, and now it appears there's no stopping her. She used her Facebook page to criticize health care legislation again today, this time time going beyond death panels and singling out Rahm Emanuel's brother Zeke—a top White House health adviser—for a proposal that she says would limit care for low-income seniors, reports the Hill.

Palin says he backs a "Complete Lives System" that "would refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential.” No retort from the White House, but yesterday Emanuel told ABC it's an "absolute outrage" how Palin and others are distorting facts and his own writings. As an oncologist, he's had many "wrenching" conversations with terminal patients and knows the territory well, adding that, far from his caricature as "Dr. Death," he opposes euthanasia.

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Sarah Palin gives her resignation speech in July. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

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Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, adviser for health care to President Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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NewserScooter

Aug 15, 2009 5:49 AM CDT

Example please? because I send bills and get paid daily from Ins. com. on just such people. How do you think docs are getting paid now? A crisis is being fabricated to allow a power grab by the left. Let no crisis go to waste, and if there isn't one make it up!

NewserScooter

Aug 15, 2009 5:47 AM CDT

No they could not get rid of it, remember it never really exhisted except in Palin's mind, so how could that have happened.

Caps

Aug 15, 2009 3:19 AM CDT

well dontlikeyou, you sure are showing how intelligent you are. It's people like you that are destroying the USA with your nonsense. Palin couldn't even run one state and you expect her to run 50? Get a life or crawl back into the cave you came out of.

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