Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 13, 2009

I was understandably freaking out while reading the following Big Hollywood post… until my narrowed, distrustful eyes strayed back to the posted date at the top.

Phew! Big relief!

Cautionary tale here, gang. And a brilliant, creepy spoof from Big Hollywood.

Let’s hope we can all chuckle about the failed ObamaCare and its endless brouhaha once we get to January 2010. And may we never diminish the importance of another human’s life in any health plan system.

Fox Announces New Reality Series ‘Deal or Die’
By Big X

Terminal Patients under Public Option Compete to Win Treatment or Cash

January 17, 2010 (Pasadena, California) The Fox Network kicked off its Winter Press Tour session at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California today with the announcement of its new reality series, “Deal or Die,” an eight-episode competition that features multiple terminal patients and their surviving families working together as teams to win medical treatments excluded by the National Treatment Review Board (NTRB).

Network Reality Programming V.P. Chip Saperstein explained, “Our new series ‘Deal or Die’ takes a close look at one of the most complex and volatile of all relationships — between the Federal Government, terminally ill patients, and their families — in a highly competitive and stressful situation.”

In round one, each team advocates for their terminal loved one before a panel of celebrity judges. The expense of the treatment will then be weighed against a number of objective measures, including the contestant’s age, chances of recovery, and value to society as well as more subjective factors. According to Saperstein, judges will be able to consider factors such as the patient’s positive attitude, creativity and sense of humor “as well as that special little indefinable something I like to refer to as ’spunk.’”

Round Two commences once the judges have chosen a winning team. The family is offered a variety of prizes or a cash settlement equal to half the cost of the course of treatment. In the pilot presentation, for instance, the patient, Fern Beaumont, suffering from inoperable lung cancer, won a course of erlotinib, which could extend her life up to six years. At $4,000 a month, the value of her treatment was $288,000. She was then offered cash and/or prizes worth $144,000 to forgo the hard-won medical treatment.

Saperstein opined, “This is where we see some real drama. Is the patient going to continue care at the expense of their family, or are they going to take the money and run? Things get very heated and we find out how everybody really feels about each other — if there are any past slights or buried resentment, believe me, this is where they bubble to the surface. It’s unbelievable, completely unpredictable and incredibly entertaining while thought-provoking!”

In the case of the Beaumonts, after some debate, Fern selflessly opts to pass on her cancer treatment in order to pay for a Farewell Greek Island Cruise for her extended family.

Celebrity judges in the pilot included Kim Kardashian, Carrot Top, and Dr. Drew Pinsky. “Deal or Die” is a production of Fox Television Studios. Series is created by and executive produced by Leonard Bellows (”Who Wants to Be the President,” “Last Convict Standing”).

Admit it… when you first saw the brazen headline, you half-way (or totally) believed it was happening, didn’t you? You were repulsed, but not overly shocked, right?

Anymore, I think we’re all coming to grips with the new “realities” in this tawdry age of “hope and change.”

In order to cope with these daily assaults on our sensibilities from our government, we’ve come to brace ourselves and be ready for the most vile, the most outrageous, the most despicable things to happen. The perfect state of mind for the masses to be fooled, then conquered, from a statist’s point of view. Keep everything off balance and fraught with agitation and fear (if you’ve not read Mark Levin’s new book, you must!) and they’ll eventually give up because they’re weak, cowardly, and/or inattentive, according to radical scumbag Saul Alinksy.

Not the Americans I know… the gumption, devotion, and strength displayed by our amazing military, our police force, our firefighters. These brave men and women exemplify the uniqueness of America. And there are millions more like them. Oh, sure, there are lazy SOBs getting Obama’s freebies, and millions of illegal aliens and gang members and other low-life miscreants. But the vast majority of Americans are comprised of fighters, of idealists, of hard workers, of embracers of freedom. And to keep that fragile freedom means fighting for it… as so many patriotic, concerned citizens have been doing these many weeks at tea parties and town hall protests. I am so proud of these brave Americans, and support them fully in letting the government know what the majority does and does not want.

A new reality series I’d like to see would one focuses on THAT. On the admirable qualities and patriotism of our citizens and the freedoms of our Constitution that makes America the most magnificent nation on earth.

That would be a very cool show. I’d watch it in a heartbeat.

Other town hall writeups:
The American Spectator: Gallup Finds Independents Sympathize With Protesters
The Anchoress, First Things: Science Czars & Healthcare; When Life is devalued…UPDATED
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Did ‘Cash for Clunkers’ just put Obamacare on the junk heap?
Patterico’s Pontifications: Obama: Goal Is to Eliminate Private Health Insurance
Chris Burgard, Big Hollywood: Dear Mr. President, Please Don’t Kill My Kids
Power Line: Obamacare — worse than nothing
The B.S. Report: Video Of The Day: Glenn Beck; AARP: Leading The Elderly To The Slaughter?
Right Voices: Specter: “I could be somewhere else. I don’t get any extra pay — I don’t have any requirement to be here.”
NewsBusters: Harry Reid Will Only Do Town Halls By Telephone, Media Mum
Real Clear Politics: Dem Congressman: Town Hall Protesters Are “Political Terrorist[s]”
Gateway Pundit: Shocker! Little Girl Who Asked Obama Question at New Hampshire Town Hall Was a Plant
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Plants
Temple of Mut: WE ARE NOT THE STAGERS! Leftist Activists try create faux imagery to squash our dissent.
The Hoosierpundit: Baron Hill Repeats “Political Terrorists” Line
GayPatriot: AP Finds Anti-ObamaCare Protests Represent Genuine Grassroots
Moe Lane: Rep. Bishop, Boswell having health care meetings allllll the way over *there*
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: ‘Flag Yourself!’ Campaign (With Ann Coulter) and Lonewolf Diaries: It’s Time to Flip the Bird to Tyranny–Flag Yourself!
JustOneMinute: Because Children Are Useful Props Except When You Don’t Want Them To Be
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: Surprise: Young Girl @ Obama TownHall in NH was a Plant!
Atlas Shrugs: Tampa, St. Louis …Obama’s Union Thugs are Beating People up at Town Hall Meetings
Sharp Right Turn: White House tries to intimidate on healthcare opposition
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Exposed: The little “mean signs girl” Julia Hall from today’s New Hampshire Townhall
Gateway Pundit: RAW VIDEO!!…..TEA PARTY PROTESTERS ATTACKED– 1 Black Conservative Seriously Hurt in St. Louis!… 6 Arrested Including SEIU Members
Goodtimepolitics: A Video Obama Doesn’t Want Americans To See (ACORN and local police)
Hot Air: Cornyn to Obama: Shut down Snitch Central and Blue on blue: Helen Thomas hammers Gibbs on Obama’s phony town hall
Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI) , Big Hollywood: A Health Dirge Night: President Obama’s Lefty Health Club Band
Seth Swirsky, Big Hollywood: It’s No Wonder People Are Angry!
Temple of Mut: TEA PARTY SHOCKER! Babs Boxer Says We Dress too Well to be Real! and CA GOP Meets SD Tea Party Maven
Hot Air: Obama: Government health care will be like, um, the post office
Mark Epstein: Can Obama get any statistic right?
No Sheeples Here: Mistrust Those In Whom The Urge To Punish Is Strong
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare/OFA stage props in Houston: “One is a Che Guevara fan and the other lies about being a doctor.” and Hey, Rep. Betsy Markey: You’re invited to a town hall meeting you refuse to hold! and Breaking: Finance Committee to drop end-of-life provision and Selective outrage of the MSM and Billie Jean King: Obama’s distortions are “cute” and Obama’s town hall performance and Democrats now taking refuge at SEIU offices and Little girl at Obama town hall has not-so-random political connections and NBC: “YES WE DID” and What’s the SEIU up to now?; Another Democrat calls Obamacare protesters “political terrorists” and Help out the Internet snitch brigade: Report on fishy health czar office and The smell of desperation: White House unleashes on Internet critics and Health care czar’s office calls for Internet snitch brigade and Video: No, you can’t just ram Obamacare through “fast” and Yes, they are talking about a government takeover of health care and Grass-roots revolt in Austin, TX: “Just say no!” to Obamacare; Pennsylvanians boo Sebelius & Specter, “How can you manage health care when you can’t manage Cash For Clunkers?”
Bulletproof Diction: Let Obama’s “Healthcare Reform” Whitewashing Begin!
The Clampdown: The Chicago Way
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Dr. Obama’s in the House: I’m Not a Doctor, but I Play One on TV (video) and Trojan Horses and Bold-Faced Lies: Obama’s Own Words on Eliminating Private Health Insurance (video) and Rush Limbaugh: Town Hall ObamaCare Protests, “All Statist” Insurance, and “Obama The Joker” Posters and Fake Democrat Astro-turf Protesting: Is Code Pink “Too-Well Dressed”? Or Just “Too Pink”? Only Sen. Babs Boxer Knows for Sure…

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