Charles Krauthammer's on the job again, with an insightful look into President Obama's crystal policy ball for leveling and equalizing well, everything. Today, he's looking into health care. The key paragraph is here:
"My own preference is for a highly competitive, privatized health insurance system with a government-subsidized transition to portability, breaking the absurd and ruinous link between health insurance and employment. But if you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing."
What he's describing here is essentially the John McCain plan from the campaign (you remember, the one he just couldn't seem to explain?), something the President smeared mercilessly until he came into office, at which point his people floated it as a possible option. But if as Krauthammer says, the President is looking into creating a single payer system, rationing is going to have to happen. There simply is no other way.
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If they have their way (and they will), there will most certainly be rationing. But it will be rationing based on criteria that boggles the mind. Fat people will be refused hearts; drinkers will be refused livers, smokers reused whatever. Numerous people will be denied medical treatments early on due to genetic predispositions. Others will be denied due to the quality of their dietary intake or on the perceptions of their lifestyle.
Be wary America. We are often better off with the devil we know than we will be with the devil we do not yet know.
But will the future Octo-Moms be refused embryos?
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