Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.

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If nobody wants a "death panel" fiddling with Grandma's oxygen tube, then why do people who want health care to be a more collective experience have such a history of saying old people ought to die?

The latest is a video that went viral last week of a 2007 speech from Robert Reich, one of the progressives' big-idea guys. Reich told a crowd what a candidate for president should say if he were honest.

Among the gems: "If you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive, so we're going to let you...