Death Panels are real.
They meet every day and make decisions on who will live and who will die. They convene in corporate conference rooms in major cities across America. Every day.
The members of these Death Panels look like you and me. You wouldn't be able to pick them out of a crowd. They don't look like monsters, but they are monsters in their greedy, murderous hearts.
The most monstrous of all Death Panels meet in the board rooms. CIGNA, United HealthCare, Aetna and all the other health insurance companies convene living, breathing Death Panels to decide on policies that will determine who will live and who will die.
And the most monstrous thing about it is that they get bonuses for dispensing death. The more sick policy-holders they condemn, the more they profit and the bigger their bonuses. It's murder for profit.
All the fiscal and accounting tools money can buy are employed to carefully comb proposed changes in policy terms to see how many more premium-paying sick people can be denied critical health care so that bonuses will go even higher.
They are powerful beyond words and deeply entrenched in the political power structure. They buy politicians by the score. Like the abolitionist effort, it may take generations to rid the country of this evil practice.
Health Insurance Death Panels deny health care to people because they make more money that way. It's blood money and it's evil, immoral and disgusting. And it ought to be illegal, even if it takes another Civil War to make it so.