Ignoring reality, Fox & Friends continues its health rationing scare campaign
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SUMMARY: Once again, Fox & Friends advanced the falsehood that health care reform would create a system of rationing care, with Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel predicting that President Obama's proposals would result in the disappearance of medical procedures like dialysis for the elderly. But despite Fox & Friends' pattern of fearmongering, insurance companies already ration care and sometimes deny coverage of lifesaving treatments, and the Obama administration has said that its health care reform efforts seek to put doctors, rather than insurance companies, in charge of these decisions.
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