Death Panel, Cost Cutting Panel, Rationing Panel, Care Reduction Panel…Call It What You Want. It Is Bad And It Is On Its Way With Obamacare.

 “The board, which was an original part of Obamacare (remember the death panel debate?), consists of 15 unelected bureaucrats who will have unchecked, binding power in the interest of supposedly Continue Reading

Obamacare Update: IPAB Is an Acronym for ‘Death Panel’

“Unfortunately, choice is not a popular concept with the President and his health care apparatchiks at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). For them, "cost control" means Continue Reading

“Death panels? No, but bad medicine anyway: Obamacare’s end-of-life mistake”

"Last week I saw my patient Sandy for a routine physical. He is in his early 80s, has high blood pressure, back and leg pain and high cholesterol, but is otherwise built like a truck. Beginning this Continue Reading

Obamacare Update

"Tovar asks a great question: “Who are they to put a figure on a person’s life?” But when the government takes over health care, which is what Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion is, putting a Continue Reading

Death Panels Are Back In Obamacare

"Defenders of ObamaCare regard such fears and statements as unsubstantiated hyperbole, but we need only consider the waiting lines in Canada and the dismal treatment of patients under Britain's Continue Reading

Krugman lets the Obamacare Death Panel Cat Out Of The Bag

"KRUGMAN:  They should have said, "Okay, look, Medicare is going to have to decide what it's going to pay for. And at least for starters, it's going to have to decide which medical procedures are not Continue Reading

Obamacare is kicking in….are you loving the “Hope and Change”?

"US breast cancer drug decision 'marks start of death panels' America's health watchdog is considering revoking its approval of the drug Avastin for use on women with advanced breast cancer, Continue Reading