The new meme from the left is that opponents of "health insurance reform" (or whatever Obamacare is being labeled today) are "scaring seniors" with talk of "death panels" and rationed care.

Stipulating for a moment that "death panels" and rationed care are just that, scare tactics. It would stand to reason that the left would be incensed that their opponents have merely taken a page from the liberal playbook. Namely that no fabrication is too outrageous if it upsets seniors and gets them to go your way.

However, "death panel" is a reasonable description of the government bureaucracy that will be deciding whether or not a treatment is paid for, and who's going to get it when rationing kicks in, as it inevitably will when unlimited demand meets finite resources.

A large part of the anger seen in town halls is that the attendees know they're being lied to. In 2003 & 2007 President Obama is on videotape stating he's in favor of "single payer." In 2009, he says he is not. President Obama says surgeons make $50,000 for performing a foot amputation, they do not. Given these and other "terminological inexactitudes" can the attendees of these meetings be blamed for not accepting the talking points and glib assurances of proponents of "health insurance reform." They know that no matter what the speaker says, it will have little to do with the bill as finally passed. And that once started down this road there is no telling where it will lead 10 or 20 years hence.