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Fact is The president didn’t say that government would decide what treatments or procedures would be allowed for each individual. He said the opposite: "I don’t want bureaucracies making those decisions," and "we want doctors and medical experts to be making decisions," based on scientific evidence of what is likely to result.

We have already debunked certain claims about rationing of care in Britain or Canada, whose single-payer systems are not what Obama or members of Congress are trying to duplicate, false assertions to the contrary. We have also written about the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, a creation of the stimulus bill passed in February, which is empowered to coordinate research into what treatments work best and which are most cost-effective, but has no power to tell doctors what treatments and procedures to perform or prescribe.

Fact check.org goes on to mention We don’t know whether or not some form of rationing would eventually take place if one of the pending bills were to become law. We would note, as does Obama, that denials of coverage are routine among private health insurance companies and under Medicare in our current system, and we asked McClusky about that. Why would such decisions about care be more objectionable under a public plan, for instance, than they are when Aetna or UnitedHealthcare denies coverage? "We find it more troubling when the federal government is doing it," he said. "It’s the 800-lb gorilla."

Originally Posted by MrLabGuy

Fact is the original draft had a "Review Board" who would decide paid coverage of certain procedures based on rationed care. For example denying coverage for an 80 year old in need of hip replacement who already outlived the average life expectancy. Forget that his family before him lived to their late 90's. He has no use to the Democrats and in their mind is wasting government resources.