[Nachum]

You know Peter, Stalin had an easy way to deal with it. Bet you liked him too.

[omega4179]

its even cheaper to just kill everyone who gets sick.

[stephenjohnbanker]

B U M P

[Rodebrecht]

"Peter Singer"
That's all you need to know about the article. The "ethicist" who thinks infanticide is a right, eugenics was a good idea, and beastiality is a-okay. Ironic, because his parents were Holocaust survivors.

[beethovenfan]

This is the guy who says it’s OK to kill your baby during the first year. Lovely guy.

[stephenjohnbanker]

If Singer gets cancer, guess whose credit cards will get cranked to the max ?? ;-)

[DonaldC]

“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.

[Retired Chemist]

How about spending $500,000 on a crack addicted baby?

[Signalman]

Reagan: Morning in America

Obama: Mourning for America

[rlmorel]

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.

[rahbert]

wait till this ghoul has a killer illness.. i’m betting he won’t volunteer to take the soma he advocates for others.

[sfvgto]

that way of thinking only works if it’s about the other guy

[rlmorel]

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.

[hoosierham]

Everything else is "rationed" based on your ability to pay. Cars,homes,vacations,TVs,...everything including health care costs money.The major difference is we don't pay for houses and cars in the same manner as we pay for health care.

[lonestar]

My question-—don’t “they” use that insurance companies refuse expensive treatments, one of the main points for pushing Obamacare?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It's surprising to see this article in the NYT — where you'd expect nothing but cheer-leading for government health care.

Actually, the first form of rationing you'll see is wait lists (and other forms of bureaucratic foot-dragging).

[BenLurkin]

Evil.

Just plain evil.

[coconutt2000]

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.

[secret garden]

We should start the rationing process with Pete and his family.

[Carley]

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

[sourcery]

Health care in this country has always been rationed—by price and affordability. That's the only fair way to do it, so that each individual gets his "medical rationing coupons" (dollar bills) the "old fashioned way," by earning them.

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.