When Obamacare was being debated, the UK was accused of having "death panels", which were basically this: deciding that it was uneconomical to provide certain t

When Obamacare was being debated, the UK was accused of having "death panels", which were basically this: deciding that it was uneconomical to provide certain types of care to certain types of patients where the QALYs achieved would be minimal and excessively expensive. But that is "communist" and so Americans as a whole could never agree to it. They'd rather squeeze every last day out of someone rich, even with a low or negative quality of life impact, and let the poor die early. I don't live there and it makes me mad too. It fails the Rawlsian test of ethics (veil of ignorance), which I think is a good way to decide on political issues.