This is a scenario that will play out more and more as ObamaCare becomes integrated into the health care system and making your health care decisions for you. The government gives, the government takes away. Government rationing is Sarah Palin’s death panels.

Right now, irrespective of ObamaCare, nation wide rules say ten year old Sarah Murnaghan is too young to receive a transplant in the adult transplant program where there are more lungs to go around. The Daily Mail reports that the family even asked the Health and Human Services Secretary to waive the rules–which she can do if she wants.

Though Sebelius asked for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to review the policy on lung allocation in a letter Friday, according to The Associated Press, she did not override it.

‘Secretary Sebelius’ decision to not exercise her very clear authority under the law to intervene and mandate a variance that would help save Sarah’s life is devastating,’ Sarah’s parents said in the statement according to the Daily News.

Sarah hasn’t been told, but she has been given only five weeks to live. Her parents are understandably desperate,

She relies on a ventilator to breathe and has been on the waiting list for new lungs for 18 months – and is top of the priority list for children in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and northern Virginia.

But so far, none have become available – and because she falls two years below the cut off for adult lungs, she can do nothing but wait.

One positive note. In this case the parents are going over the heads of the health care establishment to get a dedicated lung transplant for their daughter from a caring family who’s lost a loved one. So far they’ve had no luck. 

Our hearts break now. But as ObamaCare is implemented, more and more rules will be determine what health care procedures the government will allow us to have. Sadly, as these cases become more numerous–and they will–we will nationally turn our backs on these needy people because the thinking will be ‘why should I have to pay for it?’ Class envy will pervade every decision. Isn’t that what Occupy Wall Street was all about? He’s rich and I’m poor so he must have gotten rich by stealing from me.

Under ObamaCare we’ll all be in the same boat. People will be envious of others who go around the rules to get what they need. People will object. Our health care will become their business. And it will be a loss of the most basic kind of freedom. 

We’ll default to the obvious lie that, “the government will take care of them.”

The President and his underlings crammed, bribed, buttonholed and jammed this legislation down our throats on Christmas Eve 2009 and then set about using the tools of government–the IRS, HHS, EPA, Justice Department– to destroy the people who opposed it. 

Sarah Murnaghan will die without a transplant. The rules said she couldn’t have one. 

Under ObamaCare we’ll all be Sarah Murnaghan.