Sarah Palin Is Still Right About Those Death Boards
The proponents of government-run health care keep saying over and over again that they’ll control costs. Well the only way for them to control costs is to control access to care. That means bureaucrats making decisions about your health care.
Decisions that can sometimes mean the difference between life and death.
Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that, “ObamaCare is all about rationing.”
He says, “The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report in June explaining the Obama administration’s goal of reducing projected health spending by 30% over the next two decades. That reduction would be achieved by eliminating “high cost, low-value treatments,” by “implementing a set of performance measures that all providers would adopt,” and by “directly targeting individual providers . . . (and other) high-end outliers.” In other words, using a British-style NICE board to determine what services are cost effective, and disallow those that are not.
Now, you can be for this or against this, but it is disingenuous to argue that Palin was completely wrong in warning about this cost-based rationing. What kind of democratic process is it that asks the American people to accept this approach, while pretending this is not what the administration is trying to do?
So why can’t the liberals just be honest about this aspect of their push for government health care? Maybe it’s because this is exactly what Americans don’t want.
In order to sell their ideas for health care, liberals must convince Americans that they’ll get the same care they’re getting now only someone else is going to pay for it. Unfortunately, neither is true. Our care will get worse as the government rations access to care to control costs, and we’ll all pay more in taxes for government health care than we’re paying out of our own pockets for health care now.
