Summary
Sarah Palin's recent fantasy regarding a government "death panel" that would have decided the fate of her Down syndrome child is, of course, entirely the product of her own imagination. No such nonsense appears in any of the health-care reform bills making their way through Congress. Her comments do remind us, however, that health-care reform can quite literally be a matter of life or death. And unelected bureaucrats have indeed taken health-care choices from families, patients and doctors. They're just not employed by the federal government but by private health insurance companies.
Consider this: If someone without insurance becomes ill, that illness becomes a pre-existing condition, and that patient becomes uninsurable. Given the cost of health care, it's likely many such patients put off seeing a doctor, quite possibly until a treatable condition becomes terminal. Let's be clear: Health insurance companies profit by denying payment for life-sustaining medical procedures to sick people. Thus is health care rationed, thus is for- profit murder rationalized. And that is how market forces currently allocate health care.See the full content of this document
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