Too much of our health care money is wasted. Old people need to really understand that death is normal and natural. Throwing money at the problem does not change the inevitable outcome - death. I believe this is in part due to the failure by too many people to really accept the promise of Christianity - our life here is temporary and just a prelude to a better eternal life.
In fifty years, it will make little difference if old Martha dies in 2013 or 2018. Either way, Martha will be gone and probably forgotten. However, if in fifty years, taxpayers are still paying for Martha's extra five years, that will make a difference. Right now, our country is becoming flooded with old Marthas.
Of course, if old people want to spend a lot of money to unnecessarily extend their miserable lives, it should be their own money. The taxpayer is tapped out.
Expensive, wasteful spending to unnecessarily extend lives should be left up to the individual on a "pay as you go" basis. Pay as you go - and, when you stop paying, it's time for you to go.
Expensive, wasteful spending to unnecessarily extend lives should be left up to the individual on a "pay as you go" basis. Pay as you go - and, when you stop paying, it's time for you to go.
And here's the problem with your "compassionate" (not) answer. Who determines "old"...who determines what's a "miserable" life, and who determines what's "unnecessary?"
And I have little use for anyone who thinks just because someone is old (in your opinion) they should not have the right to care.
Well, you should give Obamacare your full support because it authorizes the ‘death panels’ designed to deny care to the ‘old’ just as you think should happen.
i’ve determined you should quit consuming oxygen on this planet!
Old people ought to have the choice of spending their own money on their health care, instead of having that money stolen by the government and then having the government decide what treatment they wish to pay for.
If I get diagnosed, I am gonna die, not because I don’t have insurance, because I do, but because I am not going to allow the “medical establishment” free access to to their ridiculous experiments. Pain relief is it. Done. Finis.
You would be a perfect candidate for a position on one of 0bama’s Death Care Panels. Or in an earlier time, you would have fit right in with Himmler’s SS.