Yeah, about “death panels”

The phrase introduced by Sarah Palin was admittedly a bit hyperbolic. Nobody proposes a system that judges that old people have lived long enough and should go home and die. Nope, nobody would EVER propose such a thing.

It just kinda happens, when you have government-run health care.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air[*1] relates yet another horror story coming from the government-run NHS in the United Kingdom[*2] , as reported in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper:

Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.

But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving, the experts warn.

Read that first sentence again. Read it very, very carefully. Understand what it says. Then, read the second sentence.

No, no, no, nobody EVER proposes anything like death panels. They are just a natural consequence of a “single-payer” system.

Oops. Sorry about that. But hey, health care is a RIGHT! Well, a right for some people, anyway.