Quote:I actually have no love for insurance companies, they are my daily adversaries. What you don't understand is that the IAPB has the task of controlling health care costs. The most expensive care is end of life care. The easiest place to cut cost is to deny all non-palliative end of life care, ergo Death Panels. Check any of your beloved socialist states for their take on murdering the old disguised as Assisted Suicide. That's what's coming to America.

Assisted suicide is not really the same thing. Whether you agree with it or not (I don't now but maybe if I was terminal?) it's the choice of the person requesting it. Is that not the ultimate form of liberty?

 

It may be the easiest place to cut costs but just because the extreme circumstance could possibly lead to care being denied that is not the purpose of the board. It's purpose is to reduce and manage costs across the board. It's hyperbolic to claim it will decide whether the elderly lives or dies, hence why she coined the phrase and the right ran with it. It evokes fear and anger plain and simple. 

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