Palin: House health bill should be DOA

The House health reform bill should be "dead on arrival" in the Senate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) argued Thursday.

In her latest posting to her Facebook site, Palin took aim at the mandates contained in the healthcare bill passed by the House last Saturday, urging senators to reject it.

The former governor said that the mandates and penalties were structured in such a way, that, "who knows how long the whole crazy plan will last before it goes broke – and our country with it!"

"Please let your Senators know that the Pelosi Bill should be dead on arrival," she wrote. "Once we go down this big government path, it will be virtually impossible to reverse course."

The "dead on arrival" rhetoric echoes that of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who suggested after the House, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), passed the landmark legislation that it was DOA.

Palin criticized the House bill for too stringent of penalties with its mandates, and the Finance committee bill from Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) as having too weak of penalties to work well.

"That’s where we are with this bureaucratic mess: either the government penalizes people so harshly that they could be hit with huge taxes and even possible jail time, or the government makes the penalty a slap on the wrist and undermines the plan from the get-go," she said.

Ultimately, Palin called for different health reform solutions (as many Republicans have) centered around eliminating Medicare fraud and waste and accomplishing medical liability reform.