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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This leads on to wonder how “terminally ill” will be defined under Obama Noncare. If an elderly patient could be saved by an operation will he/she be denied it and thus be deemed terminal?


7 posted on 03/20/2013 4:59:26 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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This leads on to wonder how “terminally ill” will be defined under Obama Noncare.
The same way "mentally ill" will be defined under the new gun control legislation.
23 posted on 03/20/2013 10:29:27 PM PDT by Bratch
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This leads on to wonder how “terminally ill” will be defined under Obama Noncare. If an elderly patient could be saved by an operation will he/she be denied it and thus be deemed terminal?

No doubt, the argument will be made that we are all terminally ill, from birth.

This reminds me of the 'lifeboat problem' or the 'kidney machine problem' where there isn't enough for everyone who needs it and you have to pick who survives. The flaw in it is that there likely could be enough, provided the government wasn't mucking up the works.

24 posted on 03/21/2013 1:38:49 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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