The United States must ration health care for the elderly through the use of "death panels," a former Obama administration adviser is saying, but other experts disagree.
Steven Rattner's "cavalier attitude about 'death panels' is simply breathtaking," C. Ben Mitchell, professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., said after a New York Times opinion piece by Rattner in mid-September.
"What he [Rattner] and the Obama administration don't grasp is that Americans will not tolerate a rationing system like Canada's or the U.K.'s -- they are not going to wait three years for surgery or abandon their loved ones at 70 years old." Mitchell told Baptist Press. "If the sleeping giant is roused, the gut-wrenching decisions Americans will make will be in the voting booth." Read more
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