The first person that gets denied payment of a service because of rationing should reply:
“BUT YOU LEFTIST DEMOCRATS SAID HEALTH CARE WAS A RIGHT!!!!”
Denial of service can mean denial of life, which is unconstitutional and can be argued that the government is denying them their lives.
And just think, the elite are exempt.
Not ONLY Death Panels, but there will be BIRTH PANELS also. .....if a baby has ANY DEFECTS that will cost money, the govt. will demand the be ABORTED.....for the “common good” ya know.
Yes, and are demonized by the Zero administration for doing so.
To be a liberal is to be a hypocrite.
The point Wesley is trying to make about Krugman’s statement is that Krugman believes Obamacare’s advisory boards will do something that private insurance doesn’t do, which will save more money in the future. The argument is over what that “something” is.
If it’s rationing, it’s not the same sort of rationing that insurance companies have done up to this point. Krugman apparently doesn’t think it’s the same as what insurance companies have done; he thinks the advisory boards are bringing something new to the table.
There’s also an important distinction between rationing by private insurance companies and the government controlled bureaucracies.
The difference is that those current "panels" simply say the treatment is not covered, it does not deny the patient any alternatives. But I do believe the way "reform" is written makes it impossible for a patient to employ their own means to receive the care they and probably their physician deem appropriate.
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