From World Net Daily:

"Daschle says health-care reform 'will not be pain free.'
Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
That means the elderly will bear the brunt," she warned.

"Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective.
The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost-effectiveness standard," she said.

McCaughey noted Daschle has written of such plans, modeled after the United Kingdom, which include a national board to make necessary decisions.
"This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis," she wrote.
She cited a 2006 ruling in the U.K. that determined elderly patients with macular degeneration must go blind in one eye before getting treatment with a costly drug to save their other eye, a decision that outraged taxpayers who eventually forced a change.

"Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional.

Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay.

A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition," McCaughey said.