Medicare: rationing today

Glenn Reynolds on the president’s virtual colonoscopy:

If Michael Kinsley’s definition of rationing holds — when the President can get a treatment that ordinary Americans can’t — then we’re already there.

To ration care, the government doesn’t have to cut off access to old treatments, it can withhold access to new treatments. (In this case “new” means 10 years old.) They’re already doing it for the health care they control. Of course they’ll ration everyone’s health care, once they can.

Except for the president’s, that is.

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