Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:05:10 PM
As many others have noted, Krauthammer begins his latest essay with his
bizarrely offensive demand that Palin “leave the room,” then spends the
rest of the essay essentially agreeing with her. It seems fair to say
that his problem is more with her style than her substance. He
misconstrues the “death panel” comment in a manner that suggests he
might not have read her original Facebook posting. The “death panel” solar flare occurs in this paragraph
There is no doubt Obama and his allies want to drive the United States
toward a single-payer health system. Some of his more colorful
co-conspirators, like Barney Frank, aren’t particularly cagey about it
when they speak in front of friendly audiences, and Obama himself has
expressed that desire in the past. A health-insurance industry
dominated by a tax-subsidized public option, whose vampiric “providers”
can re-write the laws of the industry to destroy their nominal
competitors, will inevitably collapse… leaving only the government.
Tossing a shark into your aquarium is not a good way to enhance
“competition” among the fish. When America inevitably loses enough
blood to lapse into a single-payer coma, there will be rationing, and
that means government functionaries will decide how the limited pool of
medical resources is allocated. I don’t think “death panel” is an
unfair metaphor for the resulting system, and the sense of dread it
provokes in the listener is entirely appropriate.