Posted by on Sep 5, 2009 in Politics | Comments Off

There’s been so much talk about death panels in the media these past few weeks. You forget with all the anger that death panels already exist in the US: they’re called private insurance companies. What else do you call it when you can get insurance from a company because you’re sick.

Insurance companies, by their nature weigh the cost benefits when offering you health insurance. Sick people, especially those with costly terminal illnesses like cancer, are financially, in all likelihood, not worth saving. At least not from the insurance companies perspective.

Governments however have a much different calculation. They have to consider other costs; like welfare cheques if the family breadwinner dies. And loss of tax revenue. And so forth.

But private insurance companies don’t. In all ways they are the real death panels.

Peter