Limbaugh continues pushing alleged "death panel," compares Obama to Fidel Castro

Hitler and Mao didn't work ? You need industrial strength pills, man.

Hmmmm... let's see....

"El" Rushbo smokes cigars, and is pretty much sedentary, (exactly like Castro) and the name "Rushbo" sounds suspiciously like "Castro"---as in "FidEL Castro". Rushbo also worked on an island (Manhattan). Same as Castro! And of course they both have a grandiose sense of self-importance. They both dictate to their masses what they should think and do---in the case of El Rushbo, it's his dittoheads.

All that aside, I think I'd rather listen to three hours of Fidel in Spanish every day.

Here's what Gail Wilensky (former Administor of Health Care Financing under Bush 1) said recently about death panels:

I would like to comment on the “death panels” charge, which I’ve done now a number of times.

I think it is really unfortunate that this has been raised and received so much attention because there are serious issues to debate in the health care reform—how we finance the money; the whole notion of a public plan and whether it is or is not compatible with private insurance as we know it; whether we’re not talking enough about reforming health and health care costs and talking only about health insurance reform. Many issues.

I regard the “death panel” as a red herring issue, to the extent we are talking about proposing payment for physicians that are asked by their beneficiaries, by their patients, to have counseling on either hospice benefit or end-of-life advance directives once in every five years.

And the reason I think it’s unfortunate is really two-fold. In the first place, this is already—the hospice—is already a Medicare-covered benefit now. And in addition, nursing home administrators and hospital admissions individuals are supposed to ask people who are on Medicare when they’re admitted to hospitals and nursing homes if they have advance directives, and if so to mark it in their chart so that those advance directive can be followed.
Given that that’s already the case, I regard this as a way to pay physicians to provide that counseling if they’re asked to by their patients, and fundamentally to empower patients to have their wishes known about advance directives if they choose to do that...

Allowing people, particularly not when they’re going into a nursing home or a hospital, to have this discussion with their physician or their nurse practitioner or their family members, to try to help them think through what is an issue that individuals may face, being put in a position when they’re not able to register their own will in terms of how they would like to be treated, is an important part of life.

It doesn’t in any way require people to have these discussions, just as Medicare doesn’t require people to have hospice as a benefit. It allows it. I think it is a major empowerment for seniors, but any senior that doesn’t want to have this discussion, either about a hospice benefit or about an advance directive, need not do so.

And that’s why I find it so upsetting that there’s this notion of “death panels.”

Okay, he's just running out of material now.