Obama appoints another to his ObamaCare death panel.

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Henry Aaron.

Obama has just nominated his second "pro-rationing" health care director. The first was a man named Donald Berwick, nominated last year. Berwick, nominated with the use of a "recess appointment," Obama circumventing the approval of the Senate. Berwick is the head of Medicare and Medicaid. He is infamous for this remark: “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open” — and, in progressive-speak, “The social budget is limited.”

Obama's second appointee, Henry Aaron, would head the Social Security Advisory Board. He once wrote a paper entitled “The Independent Payment Advisory Board — Congress's ‘Good Deed.’” It is this "Payment Advisory Board" that Palin was talking about when she came up with the phrase, "death panel." It is a 15 member board, all unelected individuals, none from the medical profession, that would make life and death decisions based on affordability. Congress would not be able to review the decisions of this panel, as the law currently reads.