Creative Minority Reader: NICE QALY you got there

There's death panels and then there's death panels:

Did you know that the life of an adolescent is more valuable than the life of a baby or an old person? Hey, it's supported by empirical surveys. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Just so there's no confusion, may I repeat what I said the other day: the "death panels" have not been dropped from any of the bills. Rationing boards, such as NICE in the UK, are intrinsic to and inextricable from a public plan. What was dropped by the Senate finance committee was the end-of-life counseling provision, thanks in part to Sarah Palin's "death panel" statement.