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As the debate about health care reform sharpens, we will hear more and more about "rationing." Sally C. Pipes, a California researcher who has fought the Canadian plan, the Clinton plan and the Massachusetts plan, opened her attack on the current plan with a piece in The Wall Street Journal headlined "Obama Will Ration Your Health Care.
This scare tactic usually raises the specter of faceless, unelected bureaucrats who will tell us what therapies or procedures or drugs we can have. But our health care already is rationed - by cost, by shortages, by waiting time, and, yes, by another corps of faceless, unelected bureaucrats, the insurance industry's specialists in protecting its profits by rejecting people with prior illnesses and slapping hefty deductible and coinsurance fees on those ...
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... 48B, column five, entitled ``CY 2010 coinsurance deductible,'' we are adding language for HCPCS cod...