Kill the Old [someone]

Anyone with half a brain and an eye to what's happened elsewhere around the world knows the endgame of universal coveragesocialized medicine: not just shitty, third-world standards of care and the end of drug development, well, forever but rationing -- the denial of care to those the government bureaucracy decides would cost more to treat than they're worth.

And this means, most of all, seniors -- you know, the huge voting bloc whose already government-subsidized treatments get more and more expensive as the time they have left gets shorter and shorter.

Now it's unsurprising to me that Kaus has spotted the Journolist zombies' foundation-laying for this kill-the-boomers endgame. What did surprise me was finding it in the very first draft of ZeroCare:

Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.

What's the AARP up to these days, I wonder?

Update: With even Bill Kristol calling for the GOP to find their balls on this, it's waaay too early for defeatist fatalism.

posted by xgenghisx at 02:31 PM

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