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As National Right to Life has suggested all along, the Baucus (Senate version) bill’s fine print, which only a lawyer could love, will force physicians to ration health care for the elderly. How? Doctors will be forced, for fear of cuts to already meager payments for services rendered under Medicare, to under-prescribe in order to avert a federal financial penalty at year end. Here is the Washington Times’ opinion about the subject.
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
