A Basis Is Seen for Some Health Plan Fears Among the Elderly - NYTimes.com
Seniors are rightly concerned about rationing. Yet, as I have suggested in previous writings, very few politicians are willing to engage in a full discussion of the inevitable need to ration services in a government-run health plan. Common sense says that rationing will happen if/when 40+ million are added to government managed insurance plans. It happens now, but the decisions are mostly in the private sector, outside of Medicare, Medicaid and the VA. I believe Americans are unwilling to trust their government with these decisions, particularly when politicians obfuscate the issue.
Given the current uproar over ObamaCare, it seems unlikely to pass Congress in its present form.
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