British ObamaCare update: Rationing now, rationing forever

"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care, the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open." Donald Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ("Rethinking Comparative Effectiveness Research," An Interview with Dr. Donald J. Berwick, Biotechnology Healthcare. June 2009)

"I fell in love with the NHS…to an American observer, the NHS Is such a seductress." (Donald Berwick, "Celebrating Quality 1998-2008," speech at London Science Museum, September 30, 2008)

Great Britain's National Health Service,  the UK's government-run health care agency, has been rationing medical services for decades--that fact isn't even debated anymore. On the surface, what Metro.co.uk reports--that rationing will be taken out of the hands of NHS bureaucrats is good news. But dig into the tissue a bit--and you'll find that British doctors may be the ones doing the rationing instead.

The British government rations health care now. The UK will ration health care in the future.

Health care rationing: This could be America in 2020.

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