As the senate prepares to do their part of the health reform bill, opponents of the public option are getting bigger and louder. They claim it will create rationed care or 'death panels' and a Canadian type system. Now all proponents of the 'reform' deny such allegations.
In fact they like to point to places like Canada to show how well that system if working. But they probably haven't read the National Post in Canada, and how it reported recently that:
Ontario's decision to cut off funding for colorectal cancer patients taking a life-prolonging drug, in order to save $9-million a year
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2066531#ixzz0Wxca0iUL
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Essentially the Ontario government of the province decided that nine extra months of life, wasn't worth the money. This is also essentially the decision that a "death panel" would make.
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