Death Panels

Gruber: There Will be Obamacare Death Panels

By Wesley J. Smith

ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber

Back in 09–when Obamacare advocates castigated those who worried that Obamacare would lead to rationing–Jonathan Gruber said get the law passed first, then refuse treatment later. From the Daily Caller story:

“Let’s get the people covered and then let’s do cost control,” [Gruber said]

Gruber also said that the only way to control costs is to effectively deny treatment. “The real substance of cost control is all about a single thing: telling patients they can’t have something they want. It’s about telling patients, ‘That surgery doesn’t do any good, so if you want it you have to pay the full cost.’”

And guess who decides what “doesn’t do any good” means? Bioethicists–who believe that some lives have greater value than others–and Obamacare technocrats.
Editor’s note. This appeared on Wesley’s great blog.