Surprise! Obama wants to ration your health care

Examiner Editorial
04/17/11

.Little more than a year has passed since President Obama signed his national health care law, but several of his key claims have already proven false. And following his much-publicized fiscal speech last Wednesday, we can add another claim to the list. As it turns out, Obamacare will ration care to contain costs.

Obama's speech, intended to be a response to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's debt reduction plan, provided little in the way of actual reforms to our nation's entitlement programs. But among the crumbs Obama did offer was a proposal to "slow the growth of Medicare costs by strengthening an independent commission of doctors, nurses, medical experts and consumers who will look at all the evidence and recommend the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending, while protecting access to the services seniors need."The reference to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was created by Obamacare, seemed harmless enough. But in reality, it continues our path toward a society in which medical decisions are centralized.

During the health care debate, Obama and his supporters often noted that other countries manage to cover everybody while spending less than America. Yet these countries don't use sorcery -- they ration care to the sick. Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (which has the Orwellian acronym NICE) is a board of experts that routinely makes decisions about how much money it's worth to extend somebody's life over a given time period. the rest

WSJ: Obama targets the middle class while pretending to tax only the rich