Death Panels and Tom Daschle

     The claim that there was never a provision for "death panels" in the original version of the 2009 health reform act is hogwash.  There was, and now the Administration, having failed to insert it into legislation which Congress would not enact, is attempting to ram it down the unwilling throats of the people by executive fiat by claiming that it isn't there.  The Nazis and Soviet Communists both had the idea that those who could not work were expendible but in recent American history it was discovered and advanced by Tom Daschle, former Democratic senator from South Dakota.  Daschle was intrigued by the notion that Government could usefully decide when senior citizens had become too infirm to warrant expensive measures to keep them alive.  (And, after all, seniors tend to vote Republican).  Of course they wouldn't be called 'death panels'.  Daschle wasn't that stupid.  When you want something which no one else wants you invent some euphemism  for it.  As his reward for coming up with such a brilliant idea, Obama tried to give him a cabinet post.  Fortunately that failed.

     But that's exactly how the idea was, and is, intended to function because it is perfectly obvious that health care will have to be rationed under Obamacare and what better way is there to do it than to get a foot in the door and keep pushing the Saul Alinsky way?  First you create some law or executive order which appears innocuous enough.  Call the program end-of-life-counseling or some such nonsense.  That's the 'foot in the door'.  Then you "interpret" what you now have, and then go from there.  Voila, you have a death panel.