Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 2, 2010

During the debate over the recently enacted health care legislation, media elites and other partisans of unlimited government lambasted critics who insisted that the measure would lead to rationing by way of a federal ?death panel.?

At least some of those who took up that derisive chorus are now extolling the same death panel ? the Independent Medicare Advisory Board ? for its supposed cost-saving benefits.

New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman is enchanted with the Advisory Board, which he says ?has the ability to make more or less binding judgments on saying this particular treatment doesn?t do any good medically and so we are not going to pay for it. That is actually going to save a lot of money.?

What this means, of course, is that critical care decisions would be made by bureaucrats, rather than doctors and patients ? and that people will die because of those decisions, just as critics of ?Obamacare? warned all along.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.