If it were anyone else but Sarah Palin, there'd be congratulations for a brilliant coinage of "refudiate." And if it were anyone else but Sarah Palin, there'd be praise for reducing a tortuously complicated legislative phraseology into an accurate and immediately understandable catchphrase, "death panel."There were and still are provisions for so-called "death panels" in ObamaCare, a feature which the Gray Lady doth protest far too much in her lead editorial today.The new health care reform law makes a start at figuring this out. It sets up a new system to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of drugs, treatments and medical devices. But, after all of the cynical demagoguing about "death panels," it limits the extent to which the studies can be used to help hold down costs. The editorial then goes on to describe an elaborate and expensive new bureaucracy which, much like the Brits' NICE, will determine what treatments and medications are best...(Read Full Post)