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    Sarah Palin: Obama Regime Will Bend all Rules Except to Save a Young Girls Life

    BY GARY P JACKSON | JUNE 5, 2013 · 2:02 PM

    Sarah Palin Angered Obama Regime Will Bend all Kinds of Rules Except to Save a Young Girl’s Life

    The government will bend the rules left and right to harass targeted taxpayers, conservative patriots, selected journalists, etc., but it will strictly exercise inconsistent and subjective rules to deny a child a shot at life.
    ~ Sarah Palin
    BREAKING NEWS
    As we go to publish this article, we’ve learned Sarah Murnaghan’s parents have filed a lawsuit in federal court to save their daughter’s life.
    By Gary P Jackson
    This is a heartbreaking situation made even more so when you know that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebilius can intervene and won’t.
    Sarah Murnaghan is a 10 year old little girl in Pennsylvania who is dying and needs a lung transplant.
    From the AP:
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. health secretary said she won’t intervene in an “incredibly agonizing” transplant decision about a dying Pennsylvania girl, noting that three other children in the same hospital are just as sick.
    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a congressional panel Tuesday that medical experts should make those decisions.
    However, relatives of 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan said Sebelius’ remarks confused them because they want a policy change for all pre-adolescent children awaiting lung transplants, not just Sarah.
    The Newtown Square girl has been hospitalized at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for three months with end-stage cystic fibrosis and is on a ventilator. Her family wants children younger than 12 to be eligible for adult lungs because so few pediatric lungs are available.
    Under current policy, only patients 12 and over can join the list. But Sarah’s transplant doctors say she is medically eligible for an adult lung.
    The change would add perhaps 20 children from ages 8 to 11 to the adult waiting list, which has more than 1,600 people on it, according to Sharon Ruddock, Sarah’s aunt.
    One moment they say we’re asking for an exception for Sarah. The next moment they say we’re asking for sweeping changes and it has to be studied,” Ruddock said Tuesday.
    Sebelius has called for a review of pediatric transplant policies, but the Murnaghans say Sarah doesn’t have time for that.
    I’m begging you. … She has three to five weeks to live. Please suspend the rules,” Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., urged Sebelius at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on her department’s budget.
    Sebelius conceded the case was an “incredibly agonizing situation” but said many complex factors go into the transplant-list formula.
    Researchers have less data on lung transplants in pre-adolescents because only about 20 a year are done. And young children suffer from different lung diseases, making it harder to weigh their risk versus their chance of surviving a transplant, according to a letter to Sebelius from Dr. John P. Roberts, president of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
    Amid concerns about the higher mortality rate in pediatric patients waiting for lung transplants, the network has tweaked its policies in recent years, Roberts said. The new rules give the younger children priority over adults when adolescent lungs become available and give the sickest children priority in a 1,000-mile radius, a broader range than used in the adult system, he said in the letter, which was shared by the office of Rep. Patrick Meehan, R-Pa.
    Meehan, in a letter to Sebelius, said Sarah’s doctors are confident they can perform a successful transplant on her. And he said she would jump to the top of the adult list if placed there, given the stage of her disease.
    Ruddock, the aunt, called it “a question of morality” that children get a place in the adult line, given that a far higher percentage of children die waiting for pediatric lungs than do adults on that waiting list.
    Do you put them at the back of the line if you’re not sure how to measure(their potential outcome)? Or do you put them in the line?” she said.
    Sarah Palin posted this on Facebook: [emphasis mine]
    The government will bend the rules left and right to harass targeted taxpayers, conservative patriots, selected journalists, etc., but it will strictly exercise inconsistent and subjective rules to deny a child a shot at life. And they called us liars when we spoke of death panels – faceless bureaucrats coming between you and your doctor to make life and death decisions about a loved one’s survival. It doesn’t sound so far fetched anymore, does it?
    I stand with Governor Palin here. The rules about no one under 12 getting a lung transplant [using an adult lung] is rather arbitrary, and based on a ruling from 2004. Medical advances since this rule was created now make it possible to have great success with transplanting a lung in a younger person.
    This is exactly what happens when government, and not the doctor and patient, are in control of health care decisions.
    It should be noted that while Sebelius won’t intervene here, she does stand behind murdering abortionists like LeRoy Carhart, who describes murdering innocent children, and leaving the body in the mothers womb, like “putting meat in a crock pot.

    Liberalism really is the greatest evil man has ever faced.

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    HHS SECRETARY REFUSES TO SAVE DYING GIRL; “SOMEONE LIVES AND SOMEONE DIES”



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    John Hayward
    6/5/2013 04:33 PM


    “Someone lives and someone dies,” shrugged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, when passing bureaucratic judgment upon the life of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who will die in a matter of weeks unless she gets a lung transplant. And a lot of someones owe Sarah Palin a huge apology for doubting her prescient warning about “death panels.”

    Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA), who along with Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) is asking Sebelius to exercise her discretion in the case, reviews the situation at his website:

    Sarah Murnaghan has Cystic Fibrosis and is fighting for her life at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as she awaits a life-saving lung transplant. Doctors believe she has only a few weeks to live.

    The Department of Health and Human Services mandated that organ allocation policies must be based on medical need rather than waiting time or other considerations.

    While Sarah’s need is acute, because she is only 10 and not 12, she can’t be on the list to receive an adult organ. Pediatric organ donors are in short supply and there is little chance that Sarah will receive a pediatric lung in time.

    Toomey and Meehan are not asking for an exemption for Sarah, but rather asking the Secretary to follow rules available to her now. The lawmakers wrote that the Secretary has two options specified in the existing policy governing the organ transplant network. She can set aside the under-12 policy on an emergency basis. Or she can direct the organ donor network to conduct a pilot program to add to the research about the suitability of adult organs transplanted into children.

    Toomey and Meehan elaborated further on the options available to Sebelius in a letter they sent her on Monday:

    Attorneys for Sarah have sent you a detailed legal opinion outlining our point which is that you have the ability and the authority to intervene to allow for Sarah and other children under the age of 12 to become eligible for adult organs.

    This is permissible for two reasons. First, you have the ability to set aside the under-12 policy on an emergency basis according to Section 121.4(d) of the organ donation regulations:
    “Policies or practices that are subject of critical comments remain in effect during the Secretary’s review, unless the Secretary directs otherwise based on possible risk to the health of patients or public safety.”

    Second, we believe the regulations allow for you to direct OPTN (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network) to conduct an experimental variance under Section 121.8(g). In Dr. John Roberts’s response to your request for additional information regarding organ donation policy, he indicated that medical literature suggests that such pediatric lung transplants have comparable outcomes but small sample sizes. An experimental variance in Sarah’s case could help better inform the medical community’s understanding of how these transplants work in pediatric settings.

    Another Pennsylvania Republican, Rep. Lou Barletta, made the same appeal to Sebelius, as recounted by the Washington Examiner:

    “Please, suspend the rules until we look at this policy,” Barletta, a Pennsylvania Republican, asked Sebelius during a House hearing Tuesday on behalf of Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old girl who needs a lung transplant. She can’t qualify for an adult lung transplant until the age of 12, according to federal regulations, but Sebelius has the authority to waive that rule on her behalf. The pediatric lungs for which she currently qualifies aren’t available.

    “I would suggest, sir, that, again, this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies,” Sebelius replied. “The medical evidence and the transplant doctors who are making the rule — and have had the rule in place since 2005 making a delineation between pediatric and adult lungs, because lungs are different that other organs — that it’s based on the survivability [chances].”

    Barletta countered that medical professionals think Murneghan could survive an adult lung transplant. During the exchange, he also said that the girl has three to five weeks to live.
    Sebelius reminded Barletta that 40 people in Pennsylvania are on the “highest acuity list” for lung transplants.



    Writing at Fox News, Dr. Manny Alvarez calls the restriction against using adult organs until the age of 12 “archaic,” noting that Sarah Murnaghan’s surgeons believe it will work, and says “it should not have taken a case like this for Secretary Sebelius – whose tenure has lasted for the past four years – to ask for a revision today.”

    Secretary Sebelius has only ordered a revision of the policy, which could take a lengthy amount of time – something Sarah does not have. To me, this shows lack of leadership and, certainly, lack of compassion. Doctors and nurses make instant decisions when it comes to helping others in need, and I believe that someone who is in charge of the largest health care agency on the planet should have a more proactive approach when dealing with these kinds of emergency situations.

    Fox News also points to a Facebook page created to seek a lung donation for Sarah.

    According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sarah’s family has asked a federal judge to intervene and prevent Sebelius from enforcing the “so-called Under 12 rule.”

    The U.S. media doesn’t seem eager to relay what Sarah’s parents have been saying about Sebelius’ decision, despite their normally passionate interest in aggrieved families, but the UK Daily Mail headlined its story on the case by quoting the little girl’s mother crying, “She’s about to be killed by red tape.”

    ‘She [Sebelius] said “Oh I’m so sorry I know this isn’t what you wanted to hear,’” Sarah’s distraught mom Janet told Fox45 after hearing of Sebelius’ verdict.

    ‘It is in her legal authority. We’re going to let a kid die over red tape. Somebody needs to stand up and say this isn’t right. This is a human issue this isn’t politics.’

    “One moment they say we’re asking for an exception for Sarah. The next moment they say we’re asking for sweeping changes and it has to be studied,” added Sarah’s aunt.

    More bureaucratic control over health care sounds like a great idea, especially once we get the IRS involved, ObamaCare leads to doctor shortages, subsidies blow the deficit into orbit, and it’s time to get down to the hard-core rationing. Doubtless it will all be administered with the same professionalism, transparency, and impartiality as the IRS Tax Exempt Division, especially since a veteran of that fabled division has been placed in charge of ObamaCare enforcement. And you can bet all these little rules will be enforced with unwavering determination against the politically connected and their children.

    Update: CNN reports that the judge has granted the order requested by Sarah’s family, preventing the enforcement of the “Under 12 Rule.”

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    Liberalism really is the greatest evil man has ever faced.
    AmeriKa is about to find out what a KILLING Machine Obamacare really is
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    HHS Secretary Sebelius' Call for Review of Transplant Rules Means Girl Is 'Left to Die,' Family Says

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