Death Panels or Whatever

The new health care plan (ACA - Affordable Care Act) suggests that seniors and others in need of medical care will have their cases reviewed by panels of experts to determine merit.   On their recommendation, you may or may not get needed treatment.  Alternatively, you may need to wait a month or many for treatment.  So we hear...

But let us note that without all the government sponsored research, eliciting so many do's and dont's we may not be available to review their somber judgement - even with hearing aid, spectacles, and all.  The decades of medical research has produced a bounty of evidence, of clues, of guidelines on how to conduct our lives more sensibly. Many of us have listened and are now so advanced, so far beyond, and so linked with age that we think we always knew what to do.

So!  There is now a possible downside.  Panels! The government gives and it takes away.  Unless, of course, you have resources to by-pass the panels, by-pass the guidelines, and by-pass the norms to gain the care you seek. This is really the world of the iffy, and dollars, et. al.  make the difference.  What's new?

Access is and always has been the key, whether through dollars or party or privilege or guile. There it is.