On the editorial page of today’s Wall Street Journal, the editors offer a primer in rationing: what it is, and why it is key to President Obama’s plans for health care reform. They observe:
While claims about euthanasia and ‘death panels’ are over the top, senior fears have exposed a fundamental truth about what Mr. Obama is proposing: Namely, once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted. [Read the full article.]
AUL Senior Counsel Clarke Forsythe says the article clarifies a distinction that supporters of ObamaCare ignore when they claim that the President’s reform plan would be no different than the rationing of goods and services that already exists. “In a practical manner, the limits and constraints in this world result in goods being rationed,” Forsythe says. “We don’t have all the time or money or material goods we might like or need. But there’s an important distinction between rationing according to prices and limits in the marketplace and rationing by government budget and government officials.”
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Yes, this plan spins the death spiral faster:
The more people we abort, the more strapped our economy becomes. Fewer people to work, pay taxes, pay into health plans, etc. Then the killing pace picks up: more oldsters have to go sooner, etc. and on and on and on. A murderous nightmare.