Mark Halperin, senior political analyst for Time magazine, acknowledged in an interview Monday that Obamacare would include “rationing,” seeming to bolster earlier claims that the new health care law could lead to what some have dubbed “death panels.” “Rationing is part of” Obamacare, Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg said Monday. “I agree,” Halperin replied. “Huge. It’s going to be a huge issue, and that’s something else about which the president was not fully forthcoming and straightforward.” “Alright, so you believe that there will be rationing, AKA death panels,” Malzberg pressed. “It’s built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be part of how costs are controlled,” Halperin said. Halperin, the co-author of the new book “Double Down: Game Change 2012″ about the 2012 presidential campaign, added that a “very high percentage of our health care spending is for a very small number of people at the last stages of their life.” “I’m not saying the system shouldn’t allow that, but there’s too much cost. There are judgments have to be made,” he said.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:38:55 +0000
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