Palin Was Right on the “Death Panels” -- A Dissent from Today's NRO Editorial - Andy McCarthy - The Corner on National Review Online

Palin Was Right on the “Death Panels” -- A Dissent from Today's NRO Editorial - Andy McCarthy - The Corner on National Review Online: "Monday's NRO editorial, 'Rationing and Rationality,' is fine insofar as it takes aim at the disaster that would be bureaucratic healthcare rationing — particularly, Obamacare's likely (I'd say inevitable) accelerator affect on the drive to euthanasia when added to the already 'baleful trends among bioethicists' that the editors cite. But I respectfully dissent from this passage:

To conclude from these possibilities to the accusation that President Obama’s favored legislation will lead to “death panels” deciding whose life has sufficient value to be saved — let alone that Obama desires this outcome — is to leap across a logical canyon. It may well be that in a society as litigious as ours, government will err on the side of spending more rather than treating less. But that does not mean that there is nothing to worry about. Our response to Sarah Palin’s fans and her critics is to paraphrase Peter Viereck: We should be against hysteria — including hysteria about hysteria."