Health Care Rationing in Florida

Obamacare hasn't yet passed but they're already talking about health care rationing in Florida in the event of a run of flu cases:

Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.

The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital.

They are making plans for dealing with a situation in which there's a short of health care resources due to the flu outbreak. Up to this point such a shortage has been a rare event.

However, many experts who have examined the kind of socialized medical care being promoted by Obamacare suggest that such shortages will become standard operating procedure as fewer people choose to work in the medical field and hospitals find they can't stay in business under government guidelines. Rationing of care will become an everyday event.

And what will they call those hospital decision makers who decide who will live and who will die? Death panels, perhaps?