Hi Jonah, you’ve tempted me into one last comment, which I’ll attempt at the risk of further incurring the wrath of McCarthy & Steyn (a formidable tag-team no editor should ever want to cross). You call the death-panel allegation “awfully blunt and inexact.” Uh, yeah — since the bill has no death panels that would operate anything like what most people would consider death panels, it’s quite inexact. But we obviously agree on the nefarious general drift of Obamacare on end of life and rationing. I think the debate over the last two weeks has been unhelpful in one respect — it has focused attention on the end-of-life counseling when the deeper problem is the bill itself. The “death panels” may be dead, but the real threat remains.