“The president told five governors last month to avoid the term ‘rationing,’ since it might give away the game”
“Giving away the game”? I know the masses can’t be trusted to understand anything more complicated than words like “change,” but how can anyone not know rationing is the whole damn point? What’s the issue, after all? Talking points come in two parts:
1) Medical care is too expensive, and
2) 47 million ininsured is unacceptable.
So the government’s task is to reduce costs and expand coverage. These are, of course, opposite aims. But they have a commonm solution: ration the supply. Under normal circumstances, higher demand would mean higher prices. But not if you ignore demand and only satisfy who and what you choose.
Rationing is going to happen. It is the only solution. It is what has happened in every country that’s flirted with socialized medicine. It’s the whole damn point.
Whoever supports this plan will lose credibility asap.