Sarah Palin Was Right #30: Dr. Berwick Confirms Rationing

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Sarah Palin wrote in a September, 2009 Wall Street Journal opinion piece:

"Is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by—dare I say it—death panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans... But the fact remains that the Democrats' proposals would still empower unelected bureaucrats to make decisions affecting life or death health-care matters. Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration."

Democrats and other supporters of socialized medicine have, as the governor noted, dismissed the "death panels" phrase, but many went further and dismissed the idea that ObamaCare would lead to rationing by any name. Since then, Gov. Palin's argument has been vindicated time and again (See here, here, here, here, here, here and here). Obama supporters not only dismissed both the rhetoric and the reality of rationing, but viciously smeared Sarah Palin, calling her "ignorant", "stupid", "a liar" and everything but a child of God.

Now more confirmation of ObamaCare rationing is being heard from President Obama's own nominee to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs:

But now that ObamaCare has passed, at least some of its supporters have become quite candid in admitting that government rationing is on the way.

Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor, has been nominated by President Obama to run Medicare and Medicaid. But Dr. Berwick has not been shy at all about saying that rationing will be the order of the day under ObamaCare.

In an interview in 2009 in the journal Biotechnology Healthcare, Dr. Berwick declared, "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open."

In other words, Dr. Berwick does not mind rationing so long as it is government making the decisions about how that rationing takes place -- about who gets what care and who does not.

Dr. Berwick has spoken, and we are reminded, yet again, who the real liars are.

- JP