Obama to Enact End-of-Life Planning for Medicare

Robert Pear The New York Times 12/25/2010

WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.

Under the new policy, outlined in […]

Don Berwick’s Death Panel?

Robert M. Goldberg The American Spectator 11/16/2010

Are Medicare director Don Berwick and the Obama administration delaying or denying patients access to medical innovations? That’s a question the Senate’s Finance Committee should ask Berwick, who heads up the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), when he testifies November 17.

The timing couldn’t be better. […]

‘Horror story’ for thousands as cancer patients are denied ‘miracle’ drug on the NHS

Jennifer Hope The Daily Mail [UK] 6 May 2010

Thousands of cancer sufferers are set to be denied a ‘miracle’ drug on the NHS [National Health Service] that is routinely used in virtually every other Western country.

The Government’s rationing body says Avastin is not cost-effective despite evidence that it can prolong the lives of […]

Orszag explains how ObamaCare imposes rationing

Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 4/27/2010

Not that any of this comes as a surprise to those who paid attention to the ObamaCare bill, of course. I wrote about the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) twice in December, first when the CBO scored the bill as a $130 billion deficit reduction, and the second time just before […]

Obama’s Organizing for America Director Mitch Stewart says Sarah Palin’s book tour is “dangerous”

via FireAndreaMitchell.com 11/20/09

Dangerous? Dangerous because Sarah Palin is exposing Obama and the rest of the elitist liberal snobs in Washington? Quite possibly. But I don’t think that’s what Mitch Stewart had in mind when he said (From The Hill)

“It’s dangerous,” Organizing for America Director Mitch Stewart said of Palin’s book tour.

He continued: […]

Palin Flummoxes the Elites with Common Sense

Neither the administration nor the media is truly succeeding in refuting Palin’s criticisms.

by Scott Ott Pajamas Media August 25, 2009

Sarah Palin — invariably portrayed by reporters and politicians as a either a vacuous celebrity or an ill-informed hooftie — has apparently thought through the issues more than most of them. She makes plain […]

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