Sarah Palin shamelessly cries Nazi and makes accusations that euthanasia is written into health care reform.

Southern Beale tells what happens when the insurance company pulls the plug.

You have no idea what it’s like to be called into a sterile conference room with a hospital administrator you’ve never met before and be told that your mother’s insurance policy will only pay for 30 days in ICU. You can’t imagine what it’s like to be advised that you need to “make some decisions,” like whether your mother should be released “HTD” which is hospital parlance for “home to die,” or if you want to pay out of pocket to keep her in the ICU another week. And when you ask how much that would cost you are given a number so impossibly large that you realize there really are no decisions to make.

If you’ve ever been among fundamentalists, you know that the word ‘evil’ means the argument has slid over into apocalypseland. It’s a place where the rules don’t apply. It’s not up to Sarah Palin to prove that health care reform will lead to euthanasia. It’s up to the reformers to prove that it won’t. Like her spiritual forbears who hanged 19 of their fellow Puritans in Salem, she’s basing her case on spectral evidence and mass fear.

The funniest part is the unspoken assumption that insurance companies provide maximum treatment to everyone who pays the premiums. In fact, you won’t find out how unprotected you are until you get sick and need to make a claim. And the uninsured are dying for lack of access to care. Dying of treatable infections, dying of stroke that could have been prevented with a cheap pill, dying of untreated diabetes. Our society has decided that these people, children included, are not ‘productive’ enough of money to be worth saving. It’s a death panel that looks at your wallet and pulls the plug. If God takes you, it was your fate. Everyone’s hands are clean.