Mark Steyn: Unplugging Grandma isn't the problem | life, expectancy, health, say, good - Opinion - OCRegister.com

Mark Steyn: Unplugging Grandma isn't the problem | life, expectancy, health, say, good - Opinion - OCRegister.com:

Obamacare means treatment rationing, so getting Grandma plugged in in the first place is the greater peril.


"Some years ago, when I was a slip of a lad, I found myself commiserating with a distinguished American songwriter about the death of one of his colleagues. My 23-year old girlfriend found all the condolence talk a bit of a bummer and was anxious to cut to the chase and get outta there. 'Well,' she said breezily. 'He had a good innings. He was 85.'

'That's easy for you to say,' he said. 'I'm 84.'

That's where Obamacare leads: You're 84, and it's easy for him to say. Easy for him to say what you need – or don't need. Relax, he assured an audience of puffball-lobbing plants in Portsmouth, New Hampshire… By the way, when I mock 'puffball-lobbing plants,' obviously all such events are stage-managed, but the trick is to make it not quite so obvious. When Nixon was campaigning in '68, Roger Ailes used to let a couple of dirty no-good long-haired peaceniks into the room so his candidate could swat 'em down: It"