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MICKEY KAUS: If, as Harold Pollack argues, ?rationing of life-saving or life-extending care? wou?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS:

If, as Harold Pollack argues, “rationing of life-saving or life-extending care” would not really be a priority for the “effectiveness” panels–such as the Obama-endorsed IMAC–then it was all the more stupid to bring the topic up, no? Here’s the first graf from a Bloomberg account of an early Obama health care foray back in April:

April 29 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said his grandmother?s hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a ?sustainable model? for health care.

Gee, where could the misinformed town hall crazies have gotten the idea that Obama was thinking about saving money by denying expensive procedures toward the end of life?

Oops.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).