Funny thing. Sarah Palin’s supposed to be a mindless floozy and yet she’s beaten Barack the Brilliant. Widely ridiculed for her use of the term “death panels” when referring to end-of-life care provisions in the House bill, it’s strange how similar provisions have been suddenly retracted from the Senate version of the bill. In fact, the term has become shorthand for the more odious aspects of ObamaCare. Not bad for trailer park trash unused to the finer things in life.
So the epithet has stuck. But why? Because, as Dick Morris explains today in the New York Post, ObamaCare is “All a Death Panel”.
WASHINGTON is all atwitter about “death panels”: President Obama derides the idea that his health-care reform calls for them; the Senate is stripping “end of life” counseling language from its bill — and last Friday the voice of the liberal establishment, The New York Times, ran a Page One story “rebutting” the rumor that ObamaCare would create such boards to decide when to pull the plug on elderly patients.
But all those protests miss the fundamental truth of the “death panel” charge.
Even without a federal board voting on whom to kill, ObamaCare will ration care extensively, leading to the same result. This follows inevitably from central features of the president’s plan.
Specifically, his decisions to (1) pay for reform with vast cuts in the Medicare budget and (2) grant insurance coverage to 50 million new people, vastly boosting demand without increasing the supply of doctors, nurses or other care providers.
Read it all. ObamaCare – in whatever form – is an incipient disaster.
