Obama former beautiful person Steven Rattner says US must face health care rationing, that seniors just aren't entitiled to all our advanced medical procedures and medicines (unless they're Beltway politicians, then they get the best of everything, all paid for by the same seniors who won't be able to get the same care themselves)

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9/29/12, "Bailing Out Obamacare: Sarah Palin Was Right," Powerline, Steven Hayward

"I missed this piece from Steven Rattner (who was a key figure in the Obama auto bailout) when it appeared in the NY Times a couple weeks ago.  Tacitly acknowledging that costs are going to soar out of sight, Rattner opens with this frank admission: “We need death panels.”  Jonah Goldberg wonders: When can Sarah Palin expect her letter of apology?”

Rattner goes on to back away from “death panels,” but instead uses the R-word: rationing.

"Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

But in the pantheon of toxic issues — the famous “third rails” of American politics — none stands taller than overtly acknowledging that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical."" via Free Republic

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Steven Rattner had to pay $10 million in fines for the heinous financial crime of bribing state officials over deals with pension funds. He's still one of the beautiful people.

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