re: #454 Cato

Calling them death panels is not only fair, it is correct as a matter of result. Colby Cosh has done us a service finding similar provisions in the Canadian law. Moreover, ANY system that purports to hold down costs must by necessity have some similar mechanism. Charles your objection should not be that Sarah Palin called it the wrong name, but rather that she didn’t point out that competing systems would have it also.

Calling voluntary end-of-life consultation sessions “death panels” is not only not fair, it is a conscious, stinking lie. Ooh, shades of Hitler! Euthanasiast! Malthusian! Eeeevil.

But then “teh deth panil truck kom keel yo ole grammie” sounds so much scarier. Obviously, it works.