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!!!!”
The panel is part of the stimulus bill, which no one was allowed to read, - it seems this was put in the jobs bill to keep it under the radar from media and public attention.
The right of the government to decide that you die.
But you didnt break the code
to a liberal, an assisted death (ie, one hastened by stopping treatment) is “healthcare”, just as is abortion.
So kwitcherbitchin, you now have the “right” to an assisted death and to an abortion
Krugman’s arguments may now be convincing to a 25 yr old, who will be 45 and in charge of the panel that decides to put an elderly Krugman on pain pills for the last months or weeks of his life... because replacing his hips or fixing the hole in his heart, would cost society more than he is worth
All they have to say to that, is "Cyanide is a drug, man."
We were told today at our staff hospital meeting that we must try all other modes of treatment including chiropractic before medicaid would approve an MRI for back pain.