Heading for “quick and dirty rules”?

If this op-ed piece in the New York Times was meant to support Obamacare and reassure the public that some widespread worries about it are unfounded….it fails.

Things won’t be that bad, it says. They’ll be worse.

One thing’s for sure: Our health care system has failed. Generational spending wars loom on the horizon. Rationing of health care is imminent. But given the political inertia, we could soon find ourselves in a triage situation in which there is no time or money to create medical-review boards to ponder cost-containment issues or rationing schemes. We’ll be forced to implement quick-and-dirty rules based on something simple, sensible and easily verifiable. Like age.