PrintApril 25, 2012
The Death Panel's Loving Embrace
The House Republicans' vote to repeal ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board played nicely into the Democrats' health care shell game by implying that the law's "death panel" provision is a detachable appendage, when in truth death panels are of the essence of government-controlled health care. For a core principle of socialized medicine, whether in its advanced or incipient form, is, and must be, the rationing of human life.
The fundamental distinction between private and government-controlled health care is a difference in the decision-making interests driving the two systems. In a private system, consumer demand drives the provision of services. The patient -- either directly, or, if necessary, through his family -- delivers his requirements to the market, and service-providers compete for the privilege and profit of satisfying his needs to the best of their ability. If they serve him well, they make more money. The individual patient's...(Read Full Article)
