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 wasnt going to be good. But suppose its 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 someones life? If there is any point at which you say, No, an extra six months isnt worth that much, then you think that health care should be rationed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Actually, the first form of rationing you'll see is wait lists (and other forms of bureaucratic foot-dragging).
Evil.
Just plain evil.
My wife is fighting Leukemia. I wonder if Obama and his crew will terminate her. Who would have imagine this crap happening in the U.S.A.
Last I checked we didn’t have a “health care shortage” in our country.
But if the Dems have their way, we’ll have a shortage and rationing will become the norm.
Of course right now people and employers ration their spending to include healthcare, and for those who choose to abuse the Emergency Services system in the U.S., one can just go to an Emergency Room and receive care and many just ignore the bill that follows afterward.
We should start the rationing process with Pete and his family.
Princeton
Home of Sean Willentz the so called historian who believed lying to a federal judge was not an impeachable offense
Home of Omarosa Obama
Home of Sonia Sotomayor
What an illustrious group of alumni.
Ugh
What the author is proposing isn't a change to a system where health care is rationed, it's a change to a system where health care is rationed based on political considerations. That's what socialism is all about: allocation of resources based on politics, and not based on economics, personal merit or individual liberty.
Thet want to nationalize health care, and the 1st thing outa their mouth is rationing it. No thanks gerbil-head.
You & the feds 1st, Pete.
Exactly
http://standinthetrenches.blogspot.com/2005/10/peter-singer-on-ethics-of-eyebrow.html
article about Pete Singer, the “ethicist” from Princeton
http://standinthetrenches.blogspot.com/2005/10/peter-singer-on-ethics-of-eyebrow.html
article about Pete Singer, the “ethicist” from Princeton
http://standinthetrenches.blogspot.com/2005/10/peter-singer-on-ethics-of-eyebrow.html
article about Pete Singer, the “ethicist” from Princeton
The CongressCriminals (TM) have already exempted themselves.
“I dont want to pay the mortgage on your house And you dont want to pay for my health care”
A mortgage is a choice. When health care issues arise, it is not always a choice or preventable. The feds simply need to be out of this business. I think much could be done to restructure payment on a local level, but doing something nationally is just nuts.
I don't want to die when a bureaucrat quotes a government regulation that tells me it is time to die.
Peter Singer, if it’s the same man, came to the US to be a full-tenured professor at one of the ivy league schools (Princeton, I think). From Australia. He is a proponent of animal rights. He is also a proponent of killing a child up to a year old.
Which one is Singer?
For example. For Arthritis suffers, a drug called Remicade is available. It's average cost is about $1,400 per infusion and the effects generally last only 6 to 8 weeks. So it's quite expensive, but living pain free is life altering.
My friend lives in fear Medicare will eliminate her treatments.
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