Remember those death panels? Well, they are back . . . . . in the news (they never, ever went away).

Despite the "nonparitsan" BS from FactCheck and PolitiFact, the equivalents of death panels are in ObamaCare.

Look, you simply cannot control costs and reduce the national (annual) deficit while you are attempting to do the following:

Free Health Insurance for a Sixth of the Nation

1. Move 16 million people into ObamaCare via Medicare. The ugly truth this: the actual numbers will be 35 to 50 million people. Additional cost = 40 to 75 billion dollars per year or 4 to 7.5 trillion for a ten year period !!! Understand that these are immigrants, illegals that through the system, and the poor. They are not Baby boomers.

Pay for end of life care for Baby Boomers

2. We are being told that the Baby Boomers will add another 10,000 claimants per day for 17 to 29 years. Understand that the Boomers will bring the most expensive of claims into the mix. i.e. end of life medical provisions. Estimated cost: eventually, trillions.

Pay for 2.5 trillion in Medicare reimbursements

3. You may remember the "doctor fix." What is that? Well, it is the federal reimbursement to the medical community for Medicare coverage. Without this reimbursement, thousands of doctors would be forced from the system. The "fix" costs the taxpayer around 250 billion per year or 2.5 trillion over the course of ten years, assuming the reimbursement total does not increase. It was not included in the health care "cost debate" for obvious reasons. But it is a medical cost and it will become a part of the ObamaCare taxpayer scam.

So, how does Obama cut costs? By encouraging folks to plan for their deaths without encouraging them in the use of expensive medical late/life care. The original Obama plan gave doctor's reimbursements if they counseled folks every 5 years. An explosion in the debate took place, typified by Sarah Palin's "death panel" comments. So much heat occurred as a result, that this provision was taken out of the bill. Now, months later, there is provision in the annual "doctor's fix" for reimbursements if our doctor advise on an annual basis (which is more often than every five years). Understand that the this new provision is not written law. Rather, it exists because of Obama's use or misuse of regulations. (see the NY Times story here.)

Understand that Obama care was not written by a panel of medical and civilian authors and, then, submitted to Congress for review and passage.

Nope. Obama told us we did not have time for all that; We were in a state of emergency, that we should not expect to know what was in the bill until after the bill became law. So the bill was written behind closed doors, not in committee. It was written with a view to passage, hence bribes and earmarks that totaled hundreds of billions of dollars . . . . . perhaps the most poorly written piece of legislation in American history.