Posted on 07/16/2009 2:27:54 PM PDT by Nachum
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?
If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn’t going to be good. But suppose it’s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man — and everyone else like him — with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life? If there is any point at which you say, “No, an extra six months isn’t worth that much,” then you think that health care should be rationed.
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its even cheaper to just kill everyone who gets sick.
B U M P
This is the guy who says it’s OK to kill your baby during the first year. Lovely guy.
If Singer gets cancer, guess whose credit cards will get cranked to the max ?? ;-)
“Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life?”
The complete devaluation of life is almost complete. Whey don’t we just shutdown healthcare, we can really save money then.
How about spending $500,000 on a crack addicted baby?
Reagan: Morning in America
Obama: Mourning for America
Here is the issue:
YOU don’t make the choice on how much it is worth.
THE GOVERNMENT makes the choice on how much it is worth.
wait till this ghoul has a killer illness.. i’m betting he won’t volunteer to take the soma he advocates for others.
that way of thinking only works if it’s about the other guy
Re: “If Singer gets cancer, guess whose credit cards will get cranked to the max ?? ;-) “
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Ding ding ding!!! We have our winning post on this topic. Right on the money!
I had to read tripe by this deranged moonbat for an ethics class once.
And here is the other thing:
The people who are pushing this the hardest, ALL have mindsets similar to this guy.
If you could hear them all talking about this at cocktail parties, you would not be at all surprised at the monolithic viewpoint.
When his mother had a terminal illness he didn’t take the approach he advocates. What he recommends is for the non-elite. He and his family (along with others that he thinks are “elite”) won’t be subject to these rules.
I’d have taken the F.
I don’t want to pay the mortgage on your house
And you don’t want to pay for my health care.
My question-—don’t “they” use that insurance companies refuse expensive treatments, one of the main points for pushing Obamacare?
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