N.H. Right to Life likens Obamacare to Nazi atrocities
New Hampshire Right to Life PAC shared a message on its Facebook page comparing Obamacare to Nazi atrocities. “Evil must be confronted,” wrote NHRTL president Jane Cormier. “On every front.”
The message NHRTL shared was originally posted by Daniel Becker, president of Georgia Right to Life and founder of Personhood Alliance, a national coalition of organizations that seek to outlaw abortion in all cases along with banning common forms of birth control. NHRTL is affiliated with Personhood Alliance.
Becker posted the message after visiting the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, where Nazis performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
“Pay particular attention to the propaganda poster which documents how much each class of useless eaters (elderly, etc.) cost German society,” Becker wrote, “and then compare it to the death panels that the Independent Payment Advisory Boards WILL implement through ObamaCARE.”
Cormier, a former state House Representative from Alton, was named NHRTL president in November after she came up short in her primary challenge to state Sen. David Boutin (R-Hookset). As a state lawmaker, Cormier was the prime sponsor for legislation that would have imposed a 24-hour waiting period and mandatory counseling for all abortions.
The Obamacare “death panel” meme was originally coined by Sarah Palin in reference to a proposed measure in the Affordable Care Act that would have reimbursed doctors for discussing advanced directives and end-of-life care with Medicare patients. It earned PolitiFact’s 2009 “Lie of the Year” award.
Republicans have revived the term to disparage the Affordable Care Act’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, which could make recommendations to Congress to help reduce Medicare costs. IPAB only acts if the projected growth rate of Medicare exceeds targets; it is prohibited from recommending policies that ration care, raise taxes, increase premiums, restrict benefits or change eligibility requirements; and its recommendations are subject to Congressional approval.