The worst aspect is that it will elevate unelected bureaucrats to a God-like status.
Ordinary people will have to grovel and beg and prostrate themselves before unelected bureaucrats, trying to get a life-saving waiver for themselves or their family members.
If the rationing and suffering was shared equally it would be bad enough.
But it won't be. Those with political connections will zip to the front of the line. Those out of favor will have their paperwork “lost.”
This gives political hacks the power of life and death over us, and will turn us into groveling beggars.
Just wait Travis. We’re on such a slope, which has been slathered with Crisco these days, that I believe that during my lifetime I may witness women in the US being told to report to clinic 5 for an abortion because Obamacare has already covered two pregnancies and more than two is selfish and bad for the environment.
And to think that when we arrived here as DP's in 1950 we thought we had escaped that forever.
PS. Seems as though C.S Lewis' fictional N.I.C.E. from "That Hideous Strength" has become fact. Excellent trilogy for today's home schooled youts.
And ACORN types will sort out the conservatives for “special” treatment.
Yep. Some day some affirmative action democrat flunkie will be sitting at a grey metal coffee-stained desk looking at your medical record and humming to herself, "eeny-meeny miney-moe. He shall stay and You shall Go." ("Hehehe *cackle!*' as you get plopped on the "rejected" pile.)
This happens sometimes now. I remember Mickey Mantle getting a liver transplant that failed and I remember being conflicted. I thought, I like Mickey and he has brought joy to a lot of people, but I also thought, this is not going to work and we are wasting a liver on him.
This gives political hacks the power of life and death over us, and will turn us into groveling beggars.
And the bureaucrat that issues the "death sentence" to me or mine will suffer one of his/her own. I can guarantee it.