Down here in Alabama (I’m on vacation) the heart bypass surgery of former Gov. John Patterson has been big news. One wonders, though, if ObamaCare were a reality, if this would have been possible:

“This is an 87-year-old guy who had chest pains, the doctor sent him to the hospital and determined he needed heart surgery and today we completed the surgery in good order and his surgery went fine. The diagnosis is there were no complications and the prognosis is a full recovery.”

Or would doctor-assisted suicide been offered instead of a bypass?