How Washington Rations - WSJ.com: "Such thinking may be a non sequitur, but it will have drastic effects on the health care of all Americans -- and as it happens, this future is playing out in miniature in Medicare right now. Desperate to prevent medical costs from engulfing the federal budget, the program's central planners decided last week to deny payment for a new version of one of life's most unpleasant routine procedures, the colonoscopy. This is a preview of how health care will be rationed when Democrats get their way."
Nationalized healthcare will be the death knell of the exceptional land of liberty known as the United States. When the populace becomes dependent upon the state for health it fundamentally changes the relationship between the government and the governed. Mark Steyn, having lived under both British and Canadian nationalized healthcare, makes this point all the time.
Oh, by the way though, this level of government control over healthcare procedures does hold out promise for solving the Social Security insolvency. Just stop spending money on life extending procedures and thereby lower the lifetime payouts to social security recipients. Why keep them alive, draining the Treasury? What kind of life is that anyway?
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