One version of the complex, pending universal health care bill would require seniors to submit to a counseling session every few years. More often, if they become sick or have to go into a nursing home.
The proposed administration's cost controls are similar in many ways to the British and Canadian systems. The purpose is to decide which treatments the patient should get, whether they should get them, and when they ought to be available.
Example: In 2006, a U.K. board said that elderly macular degeneration patients had to wait until they were blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye.
It stands to reason: When you have a set number of MDs and medical providers and you increase the number of covered patients, you must ration the amount of care you provide.
But then politicians parse basic economics to suit themselves and their party line.
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