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Obama adviser admits: 'We need death panels'

A top Democrat strategist and donor who served as President Obama's lead auto-industry adviser recently conceded that the rationing of heath services under Obamacare is "inevitable."

Steven Rattner advocated that such rationing should target elderly patients, while stating, "We need death panels."

Rattner serves on the board the New America Foundation, or NAF, a George Soros-funded think tank that was instrumental in supporting Obamacare in 2010. Soros' son, financier Jonathan Soros, is also a member of the foundation's board.

Rattner was the so-called "car czar," the lead auto adviser to the Treasury Department under Obama.

Last month, Rattner penned an opinion piece in the New York Times titled "Beyond Obamacare" in which he proclaimed "We need death panels" and argued rationing must be instructed to sustain Obama's health-care plan. His comments have been virtually ignored by traditional media as the president campaign's for a second term.

"We need death panels," began Rattner. "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."

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Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-10-02 22:22|| 2012-10-02 22:22|| Front Page Top

#4 CHINESE MILITAY FORUM > ELDERLY WOMAN LEFT TO WET BED IN [Sidney, AUS] HOSPITAL, for six hours includ for two hours after she soiled the sheets.

She was also denied pain-killers for her condition despite repeated oral requests for medications to ease pain.

Hospital at issue is allegedly "chronically under-staffed/stressed", but thus far has denied doing anything improper.

As per the USA, NAU + desired 2015 target year for same is just around the corner - other than signing the NAFTA, THE US IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO MEETING THAT GOAL.

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