N.I.C.E. is not nice
The United Kingdom has a single payer health care system. One of the integral parts of the system is NICE. The National Institute For Health And Clinical Excellence assigns a value to a year of life that is based on the age and existing conditions of the patient.
This is rationing.
The Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission for medical issues was funded within the Stimulus package in house bill HR1. It is not authorized yet but will be as part of house bill HR3200.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has made his views known through numerous articles and activity on many commissions. However, lately he seems to be backing away from a previously hard line stance on forced euthanasia.
Peter Singer has made his views known on the subjects of non-voluntary euthanasia and infanticide.
These are the people who are forming the broad tenets of the Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission with regard to health care.
Death panels may be a little over the edge, but are these people representative of the views of the American public. Does Uncle Sam believe in non-voluntary euthanasia and infanticide if the economic values of those lives do not meet some arbitrary government standard?
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