The administration dismisses the idea of beaurocratic panels empowered with the authority to make life-and-death decisions on their "budgetary" items, based on a years-of-quality-life formula designed by a bunch of pinheaded numbers-crunchers as a fantasy of the deranged right. The fact is that such panels are an inevitable consequence of socialized medicine- healthcare by the actuarial tables is a fact in Great Britain, Canada, and pretty much everywhere else that has access to the "incredible" benefits of universal healthcare. The always-brilliant Andrew Klavan wrote about what it just might be like in front of such a board.