If the government controls our health care dollars then politicians will control the procedures that we have available to us. Example: Medicare hasn't been good for hearing aid funding.
I know Sarah Palin has been criticized for her "Death Squad" comment. It probably won't have that official title. In fact I expect the politicians will manage to make it difficult to determine who is making the decisions. But the decisions will be being made.
But if the government is paying for it politian's (in committee format) will be deciding how much will be paid. And someone in an administrative capacity (in committee format) will be allocating that money as they see fit.
A firing squad isn't made up of many men because one couldn't make the shot. It is made up of many men so none of them actually know if they did the killing. It is made up of many men so that no one person must know they did it. No one person must feel responsible. No one person must feel the blame.
Politicians are masters at making the process confusing so no one must take the blame.
Those responsible for making the decisions on who lives and dies will be like the third person from the right in the firing squad.
We won't know who really did it or not. But we will still end up at the stopping point of the bullet.
Rick
