Yeah, I've read that. Jonathan Oberlander, a professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill stated much the same on CBS Sunday Morning today:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/16/sunday/main5245168.shtml?tag=contentBody;featuredPost-PE


>That's been coming for a while, hasn't it.
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>I also noted this:
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>Dr. J. James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association, and John Rother of AARP -- formerly the American Association of Retired Persons -- told "Fox News Sunday" a comprehensive overhaul sought by Democrats was necessary.
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>"There are some moving parts that if you just do one and don't do the other, you're going to have unintended consequences," said Rohack, head of the nation's largest doctors' advocacy group.
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>Rother, executive vice president of policy and strategy for the largest senior citizens' advocacy group, said properly addressing excessive health care costs and waste requires addressing both health insurance coverage and how health care treatment is delivered.
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>Both men rejected accusations that a health care overhaul would bring rationing of health treatment based on bureaucratic measures such as cost and economic productivity of patients.
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>"There's a myth that rationing doesn't occur right now," Rohack said, noting that some companies currently deny coverage for pregnancy as a pre-existing condition.
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>"That's why this bill is so important," Rohack said. "It gets rid of rationing happening right now" and leaves decisions to patients and doctors.
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>Rohack also condemned claims by some Republicans that a provision in one House bill would lead to so-called "death panels" encouraging euthanasia of senior citizens.
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>"That's absolutely wrong, it's a falsehood," he said, adding that the provision was intended to provide government support for consultations between patients and their doctors.
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>Seems that the truth will out eventually, as it will about the issue of "choice" we had discussed here, but not until after the intended damage has been wrought. Seems to me an opportunity has been lost to bickering and the willingness of so many to cleave to partisan slogans without thinking it through. Such is life.