An op/ed that ran in the New York Times earlier this month has made a startling declaration: “We need death panels.” The claim comes from a former Obama advisor, Steven Rattner, who claims that too many Medicare resources are wasted on the elderly in their last year of life. While the Obama campaign is trying to paint the Romney campaign as enemies of the elderly for wanting to reform Medicare and Medicaid, should they be paying closer attention to the people Obama has surrounded himself with?

Rattner writes:

"Medicare needs to take a cue from Willie Sutton, who reportedly said he robbed banks because that’s where the money was. The big money in Medicare is not to be found in Mr. Ryan’s competition or Mr. Obama’s innovation, but in reducing the cost of treating people in the last year of life, which consumes more than a quarter of the program’s budget.

"No one wants to lose an aging parent. And with price out of the equation, it’s natural for patients and their families to try every treatment, regardless of expense or efficacy. But that imposes an enormous societal cost that few other nations have been willing to bear. Many countries whose health care systems are regularly extolled -- including Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- have systems for rationing care."

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Editor's Note: Rationing equals death panels...Who would have thought...oh, right, everyone who bothered to read up on what Obamacare means for seniors and everyone who understands Mr. Obama's Progressive mind set. Remember, and this is critical, Progressives believe in eugenics and population control. That's not an opinion, it's a fact gleaned from the Progressive Movement's history.


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