[kabar]

Thanks for the huge and somewhat fawning bio from the NYT, although they did cover his attempted suicide and nervous breakdown. One thing caught my eye:

Mr. Wallace, who was outfitted with a pacemaker more than 20 years ago, had a long history of cardiac care and underwent triple bypass heart surgery in January 2008.

I wonder if under Obamacare, an 89 year old will be permitted to have such surgery. Many of the libs went nuts over Cheney's heart transplant.

[Fishtalk]

Sheesh. And an 89 year old with severe dementia, as Larry King so inartfully pointed out early on in an interview with Candy Crowley.

What a doofus! First, I did NOT know that Mike Wallace had severe dementia, this is the sort of thing folks like to keep kind of quiet. Larry King launched into a long description about Wallace and it was really in bad taste.

Frankly I got to wonder, forget Obamacare, but would I even approve such a procedure on a person in full blown dementia at age 89, dear Lord.

But hey, I wasn’t there, and I will fight forever for the right of family and doctors to make such decisions.

I had a heart bypass...quadruple. It ain’t the stuff for demented 89 year olds, I tell ya.

[tarheelswamprat]

Mr. Wallace, who was outfitted with a pacemaker more than 20 years ago, had a long history of cardiac care and underwent triple bypass heart surgery in January 2008.

I wonder if under Obamacare, an 89 year old will be permitted to have such surgery. Many of the libs went nuts over Cheney's heart transplant.

I believe the way it works is that apparatchiks and nomenclatura who are favored or useful to the party/elites/establishment get to go to the head of the line.