How Right-Wing Pundits Would Spin News That Obama Had Rescued A Child From Drowning

[firstandten]

You quite clearly don't get the idea behind the "death panel" argument. Mrs. Palin never claimed anyone would hunt down and kill her baby..

I don't think anyone at least on here is making any such claim other than in jest to her stupidity

Quite simply, the rationale is that in government-controlled healthcare, cost-efficiency will be of utmost importance, or the program will either fail as miserably as the current state-run entitlement programs are already doing, or bankrupt the state.
Cost-control leads to rationing of care, rationing leads to the necessity of determining who gets what..which leads to the formation of the spookily named "death panels."
The reality of the situation is that the elderly, the terminally ill, and the severely handicapped WILL get the short end of the stick in any such scenario. If you doubt this, I invite you to take a look at any government-run healthcare program anywhere for confirmation.

Two questions ?

How do you know this about government run health care ? give us an example rather than putting off the research on us

and doesn't privately run insurance companies do the same thing ?

[Detroitej72]

and doesn't privately run insurance companies do the same thing ?

Yes, see HMOs for some great examples.