We Knew it All Along

Steven Rattner, a counselor to the Treasury Department in the Obama administration, finally admits the goal of socialized medicine, a goal he thinks in which Obamacare has come up short:

WE need death panels. 

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

Read this and weep:

No one wants to lose an aging parent. And with price out of the equation, it’s natural for patients and their families to try every treatment, regardless of expense or efficacy. But that imposes an enormous societal cost that few other nations have been willing to bear. Many countries whose health care systems are regularly extolled — including Canada, Australia and New Zealand — have systems for rationing care.