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A non-demagogic disquisition on death panels

By Alliance Alert

Avik Roy writing at National Review's The Agenda: "The NHS, for American conservatives, is the paradigm of how state control of the health care system plays out. Palin?s logic is irrefutable: once the government is spending the money, the government has an obligation to the taxpayer to use those dollars as efficiently. What does that entail? From the government?s point of view, that involves not wasting money on end-of-life care . . . What conservatives are objecting to is the involvement of the state in end-of-life counseling. It comes down to this: if the government is funding health care, and simultaneously funding end-of-life counseling, the government has a conflict of interest . . . It is, at bottom, the same reason we insist on a free, independent press (and free speech in general): when the government controls the media, it has a conflict of interest; i.e., an incentive to promote journalism that is favorable to the government."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).