Death Panels in U.K.

COTTonLINE has written before about the inevitability of so-called "death panels" in a single-payer health care system. In order to hold down costs government cost-benefit decisions will be made about who does and does not get expensive treatment.

See an article in the U.K.'s Daily Mail about the operation of this kind of decision process in that country's National Health Service. Apparently the NHS has decided not to aggressively treat elderly cancer patients.

Some of this has been considered or tried in Oregon's Medicaid program. I've not seen published results of their outcomes.