Bill Gates Brings UP ‘Death Panels’
Bill Gates was a guest at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival, which is the nation's premier, public gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times.
Gates says to Walter Isaacson: "Is spending a million dollars on that last 3 months of life for that patient - would it be better not to lay off those teachers and make that trade off in medical costs, but that's called "the death panel" (smirks) and you not supposed to have that discussion...