March 19, 2024

Via @medskep on twitter:

Many scoff at the term “death panel” — Sarah Palin’s morbid, if misleading description of the powers contained in U.S. government health-care legislation back in 2009. Yet there was a grain of truth in that infamous noun phrase. The fact of the matter is that all health-care systems have “death panels” of one sort or another. It’s just a question of who sits on them — bureaucrats, insurers or doctors — and what label we put on their functions.

via All health-care systems have ‘death panels’ of one sort or another | Full Comment | National Post.

There’s the truth, let’s not act like it isn’t.