Obamacare is an obama-nation — no doubt about it. The addition of many millions of persons to the rolls of the insured, at little or no cost to them, will cause the vast majority of Americans to receive worse medical care, and to pay more for it.
The federal government’s takeover of the health-care industry will lead, inevitably, to rationing of the constricted supply of medical products and services (limited by government action, that is). And one aspect of rationing, which was widely predicted years ago, is the establishment of death panels. They won’t be called that, of course, but whatever they are called, their function will be to determine who gets health care and who doesn’t. But that’s all right (isn’t it?) because everyone will be in the same, leaky boat (well, everyone but politicians and the “rich” whom they claim to disdain).
I must admit that I have mixed feelings about death panels. They are abhorrent in principle. But I have three parents and parents-in-law in their doddering, whining, inflexible, troublesome 90s, and I am beginning to think of death panels as a plus. (Though I may change my mind in about 20 years.)
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