Posted on 02/22/2009 7:22:21 AM PST by GonzoII
Imagine that you have lung cancer. It has been in remission, but tests show the cancer has returned and is likely to be terminal. Still, there is some hope. Chemotherapy could extend your life, if not save it. You ask to begin treatment. But you soon receive more devastating news. A letter from the government informs you that the cost of chemotherapy is deemed an unjustified expense for the limited extra time it would provide. However, the government is not without compassion. You are informed that whenever you are ready, it will gladly pay for your assisted suicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Ping.
Just as “some animals are more equal than others”, I’m sure NHS has a provision to assist those it deems more valuable or politically connected. The great unwashed are just screwed.
Soylent Green is US.
It’s called the Obama, Pelosi, and Reid RAT cure for shortage in Social Security funds. Eliminate the need.
Socialized medicine means controlled access to services.
That is the only way they can control the costs.
Socialized medicine means destroying the incentives for Doctors to remain in specialized fields, because their rates are regulated.
It means pharmaceutical companies will stop spending billions on research, due to government price controls.
And no amount of federal funding is going to resolve that.
In summary, read my tagline:
Well said.
Anti-war pro-death Democrats, the culture of death advocates will soon abort adults as part of socialized medicine.
That should may the democrats happy. If you survive abortion they will institute retroactive abortion. They will get you one way or another.
Right. And the person that wrote that letter will be going down first.
$ocialist $ecurity was built on the corpses of dead Americans. The greatest fraud ever forced on "free" people. The leviathan $tate, the financial oligarchy, will institute Daschle health-care reform and it...“will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
Never understood this “assisted” suicide thing. How much assistance does a bullet in the head need, and why should it cost anything?
Suicide is a coward’s way out anyway you couch it.
I will take care of you. There are signs....
If we start looking that things aren’t worth it, it will NEVER improve because people aren’t pressured to move beyond the point they are.
‘Right to die’ can become a ‘duty to die’.....
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you and cheered on heartily by our wonderful, caring liberal ‘friends’.
If we are considering assisted suicide as a society, let’s start with some members of Congress.
Pretty soon they’ll make Tesko Suicide for the rest of the population.
how about simply maximum allowable life due to government studies on maximum “satisfaction of life”.
“You are informed that whenever you are ready, it will gladly pay for your assisted suicide.”
‘Right. And the person that wrote that letter will be going down first.’
My thought on the headline was Nathan Hale.
I imagine that bringing his name up might rearrange the line/que by those who know of his history.
I believe that will be the case.
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