A preview of coming attractions?

We hope to have more on the "death panel" discussion possibly later today or over the next couple of days but whether or not a death panel would be created from Obamacare, can you blame people for being at least a little bit edgy on the subject when this is what the President had to say this past spring?

April 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said his grandmother’s hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a “sustainable model” for health care.

“I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost,” Obama said in the interview. “I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother.”

Obama said “you just get into some very difficult moral issues” when considering whether “to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill.

Please note the shift between the 2nd and 3rd paragraph. In the 2nd, he is framing the choice as a family-based decision. It’s a no-brainer, right? Get grandma the hip replacement.

Then in the 3rd paragraph the framing of the choice shifts from that of a family-based decision-making process to a bureucratic decision-making process and suddenly we are getting into moral issues to where the people who have the most at stake have effectively been removed from the process.

Again, whether or not this death panel will exist remains to be seen, however, the President has revealed enough of his hand for people to be justifiably skeptical… and angry.

H/T: Mickey Kaus

P.S. The irony here in all this is that we have finally found one area where the Democrats have become righteous fiscal hawks.