Here is a discussion, by The Anchoress, last November, about rationing health care, ending with a comment by Nobel Lauriet Paul Krugman saying some time in the future we will be funding Medicare with a combination of "Death Panels" and VAT (Value Added Tax).
Yes, I don't like VAT either.
The real problem with taking history courses at UMass Lowell is what you learn. The panels described earlier in the post sound ever so much like those employed in Germany a few decades back to decide which of the handicapped should be killed, to make room for the wounded soldiers coming back from the battlefronts. And, the truth of what was happening was being withheld from the families of those who were designated "worthless eaters".
Why 70, when we are working to push the retirement age out toward 70, as medical care and general health of the population improves?
But, the idea that healthcare for Congresscritters will exempt them from the travails of those of us on Medicare is just galling. I thought that the US House of Representatives voted to make themselves subject to the same laws as the rest of us. Is this not so?
Yes, once in a while Kad Barma makes some sense.
Regards — Cliff
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