EXACTLY what critics were saying last year and were droned out by the leftists and their minions who argued that there would be no such thing as death panels ... well, it's back.
And no, the US government will never have something called a 'Death Panel' nor will there will a panel that backs death or encourages death, but you can color it anyway you wish, it ends up in the same place - a panel, a committee, a board, a review system, a process - that will review using every scientific measure possible (which means cost benefit analysis) whether you should receive a medical procedure or now (THAT is a death panel, even if it doesn't lead to YOUR death).
Silly liberals, don't you understand, the bulk of your political party are 30-60 year olds, prime candidates. Silly silly people. It would be bad enough if it impacted only you, but it impacts the other 250 million people equally.
And now ... Obama's choice, said exactly that -
In an interview last year with Biotechnology Healthcare, Berwick said society makes decisions about rationing all the time, and that the "decision is not whether or not we will ration care -- the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly."
He has also praised the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which he said had "developed very good and very disciplined, scientifically grounded, policy-connected models for the evaluation of medical treatments from which we ought to learn."
Said Berwick, "You can say, 'Well, we shouldn’t even look.' But that would be irrational. The social budget is limited -- we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can’t. We have to be realistic about the knowledge base."
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