The Death of Death Panels

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Tuesday November 03, 2015 · 7:48 AM PST

2015/11/03 · 07:48

On “The Incidental Economist” blog, Aaron Carroll reports that the Obama administration has issue a rule that essentially brings back the fabled Death Panels of Republican lore (http://theincidentaleconomist.com/...). Medicare now is authorized to pay for the same end-of-life consultations that, just six years ago, cause mass hysteria. The new version of the rule first was proposed in July. Then, as now, few noticed and fewer cared.

In the early fight over the Affordable Care Act, unscrupulous operatives decided (as they always do) that the end justifies the means, especially when it comes to preventing access to affordable health care from being rammed down the throats of free Americans. Death panels were fashioned from whole cloth, and, instantly, screaming hoards appeared shouting insane things. Town-hall meetings became bedlam. Everywhere the news cameras looked, we saw chaos and turmoil.

Now it’s done. So many things are said or happen in the politics of this country the stupidity of which becomes obvious a few or several years later. We need some way to keep track of and report on them. I suspect we’d see a common thread. It’s too bad we don’t have something like a free national press.

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