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Maynard says:

Supporters of health care “reform” bristle at the term “death panel”. It’s certainly a provocative phrase. But is it apt? Of course it is. Any government allocation (which is a gentle word for “rationing”) of life-saving resources is inherently a death panel. And a government must properly make certain decisions of allocation. For example, does your section of town have as many policeman as certain other sections of town? No, of course not; police resources have been allocated by a combination of factors, involving crime fighting and political pull and general bureaucratic mysteries. And when you fall victim to a criminal attack, maybe you’ll argue that this could have been prevented if resources had been allocated (rationed) differently. And maybe your argument is reasonable, and maybe it will prevail and maybe it won’t. Anyway, the bottom line is that somewhere a “crime panel” decided to put you at greater risk or lesser risk. And that’s the way it’s got to be when dealing with a municipal resource. And this is why I violently object to the concept of health care becoming a municipal resource. Because there’s neither the need nor the Constitutional authority for the government to usurp these decisions from the individual citizens. Care of my body is a private function, not a public function. As the pro-choice people once argued, get the hell away from my body! I’ll take my chances with the vicissitudes of the marketplace rather than turn over my intimate decisions to a bunch of bureaucratic goons who choose the traditional celebration of the birth of the Messiah to declare themselves the new gods and make decisions that can only rightly be made by me and by God Himself.