Barack Obama is pushing hard to change perception of his health care plan in a series of town hall meetings, answering questions from citizens, many who seem to be plants. He is especially trying to dispel the notion that his plan would cause the formation of "death panels," as some, such as Sarah palin, have surmised.

Breitbart.com reports:

"I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it's like to watch somebody you love, who's aging, deteriorate and have to struggle with that," an impassioned Obama told a crowd as he spoke of Madelyn Payne Dunham. He took issue with "the notion that somehow I ran for public office or members of Congress are in this so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma."

Except that that's not really the argument people are making - that he "ran for office" so he could pull the plug on grandma. Of course he didn't run for office to that end. He ran for office to "change" America into a more socialist, western-European style country. Health care rationing and eventually pulling the plug on grandma are just unavoidable consequences of that change.

if you just do the math, it's not hard to see the outcome of his policies. More demand for services + less supply (and less incentive to become a supplier - who wants to owe hundreds of thousands dollars in student loans to become a government employee?) = rationed health care. Of course, this is a simplification of the issue, but it's still pretty basic math.