Death panels

Insurance (Photo credit: Christopher S. Penn)

If Romney wins and repeals the Affordable Care act (Obamacare) we will return to the good old days in which death panels existed in insurance company back offices. They (the faceless insurance bureaucrats) rather government bureaucrats will decide who lives and who dies. They (the faceless insurance bureaucrats) will decide if it is profitable to take your insurance premiums. If it is not profitable because you have a previous condition or contract an illness that is too expensive to treat, you’re going to be fired (cancelled). And then you will be on your own to sink or swim. If you sink, that is Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest and good riddance. Only those who can survive on their own deserve to live, according to the Social Darwinists or followers of Ayn Rand.

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