claim: "there's no rationing in any of these bills."
author: howard dean
evidence_1: jul 15, 2009 ... if there is any point at which you say, “no, an extra six months isn't worth that  much,” then you think that health care should be rationed. .... more than 60  percent of all bankruptcies are related to illness, with many of these specifically  caused by medical bills, even among those who have health insurance.
evidence_2: aug 25, 2009 ... undeniably, these words have dominated much of the debate. but how much do  they really have to do with what's actually being proposed in the health care bills  in congress? according to our research at politifact, not a whole lot. today, we  published two items about rationing, a loaded term if ever there ...
evidence_3: that's rationing. other countries do not ration in this way. if there is this much  rationing, why don't we hear about it? and if other countries ration less, why do  we ..... many well-meaning supporters often push these bills as “feasible steps” to  move us towards single-payer, but the history of these kinds of health reform  efforts ...
evidence_4: some deny that rationing occurs and contend that their professional obligations  require them not to .... therefore, we briefly discuss three approaches to  allocating scarce resources grounded in these radically different philosophical  notions of justice: ...
evidence_5: pay the bills ± be they governmental bodies, employers, insurers, or indi- viduals  ± need the unclouded gaze of ... `whenever we design institutions that distribute  these goods, and whenever we operate those institutions, we .... there is no point  at which `rationing' begins, and therefore, any claim of rationing is a socially or ...