more on the rationer-in-chief

Something else from Betsy McCaughey's Op-Ed this week in the WSJ:

To reduce health-insurance costs, Dr. Emanuel argues that insurance companies should pay for new treatments only when the evidence demonstrates that the drug will work for most patients.

Translation: If you were sick like Ted Kennedy, treatments like the one he received should not be administered "because they might help."  Instead, the treatment should be provided "only if it will probably help."

Just as sure as Kennedy is dead now, Ezekiel Emanuel would not take that same chance on you.

That is "necessity."  That is "efficiency."

It is also rationing.