I previously addressed on these pages the fact that members of congress know that some form of healthcare rationing was going to occur. Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting on a little noticed section of health care reform legislation.
Here is the comment I posted on this article:
“While I was meeting with congressional staffers a few weeks ago they off the record told me they knew some form of rationing would be necessary, but they also knew that the American people could not be trusted with the information. While I don’t want to see bureauocrats making health care decisions, there needs to be some objective review of some medical procedures. The idea that no one should be between the patient and doctor or that we can have any care we want and costs be darn is not sustainable either. Perhaps we should trying being honest with people and let them decide what they want to pay for and how.”
Keep in mind that all this is referring to Medicare, but any public option will of necessity come under the same scrutiny. Where this is all going of course is a two tier medical system. One tier for the majority and a second for those who can afford to buy supplemental coverage or pay for what they want…just like in the UK, Canada and other countries with public systems.
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We fool ourselves if we expect to have unlimited availability to all the health care we want, particularly if someone else is paying the bill. Regardless of health care reform or a continuation of our existing ridiculous dysfunctional system, rationing of health care is inevitable.