Palin invited to testify before NY Senate on death panels

Former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has been invited by the New York Senate to testify on elderly care and the supposed "death panels."

New York State Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz, a Conservative Democrat, is hosting a Senate Aging Committee next week to discuss 'President Obama's proposed health care reform and the impact it will have on New York State senior citizens.' Such guests invited to attend this hearing include political, medical, insurance and other non-governmental officials. Each attendee will give their opinion in their respected field, according to The Huffington Post. The former Alaskan governor's insight to the topic of health care dates back to an August's comment of death panels, which would determine, according to Palin, who would be euthanized. She stated on her Facebook page, as reported by Talking Point Memo, 'The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.' The reason why she was invited? On her Facebook entry, the former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate mentioned a letter that Sen. Diaz sent to Californian Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman. Cathy Bern-Smith, spokesperson to the Senator, said, 'There was this Internet conversation going on where she made a comment on her post about something the senator had said/ So we thought, well let's invite her.' There has been no confirmation if Sarah Palin accepted the invitation or not.