The Cold Heart of Obamacare | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

The Cold Heart of Obamacare | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "In this country, bureaucrats keeping tabs on patients — without actually seeing them and their condition — will mean, as Tanner notes, that 'every time a doctor decides on a treatment, he or she would have to ask: 'Does the government think I'm doing this too much? Will I be penalized if I order this test?''"

"Clinical studies routinely exclude patients with more than one medical condition and often the elderly or people on multiple medications. Conclusions about what works and what doesn't work change much too quickly for policymakers to dictate clinical practice."

"We do not elect the president and Congress to decide how short our lives will be. That decision is way above their pay grades."