[The Pack Knight]

5. Patients will wait months and years for care. This will especially hurt the elderly the most. The elderly will die waiting for care.

Unfortuantely, that may often be by design. According to people like Peter Singer in an NY Times column, the government should have the right to decide when health care is worth the expense. The elderly won't die waiting for care, but rather because some bureaucrat decides that their lives aren't worth saving.

[sbMKE]

All part of the master plan.

Obama’s science czar wrote a book outlining his master plan for abortions and mass sterilizations to “save the planet.”

http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/

Eugenics on both ends of the life cycle - root out the weak at birth and root them out at the end via “cost-saving healthcare” planning. This is a really sinister lot.

[Antoninus]

The elderly won't die waiting for care, but rather because some bureaucrat decides that their lives aren't worth saving.

And where is AARP on this? Supporting it, I'm sure.

Most large institutions and interest groups have been completely co-opted by the left.