Posted on 08/15/2010 10:28:21 AM PDT by radioone
Well, we need save money for more pressing needs. Ritz Carlton vacations ain’t cheap, not to mention Unions giveaways...
“My wife’s uncle had lung cancer and he said no to three more months. I respected his decision..but he made it, not some bureaucrat.”
I certainly agree that in cases such as that, it is fitting ... what worries me is the slippery slope it puts us on ... and the death squads are going to wax up the bottom of the toboggan pretty good.
$2.73/hour of extra life.
I think you are giving the VACATIONING PRES_ENT to much credit. Math is probably not one of his strong points.
It is much more likely that he just signs whatever his handler's want him to and is only concerned about having fun while 'playing' the role of President. He doesn't care about anyone but himself and the other criminals he must surround himself with to stay in power.
Of course, that's just a personal opinion.
As someone else said, that should be your decision, not a bureaucrat's.
Why attack Medicare and not Medicaid?
“I don’t think I’d want this treatment - facing four more months of misery before the inevitable doesn’t sound appealing to me.”
You make a good point. I don’t think, though, that there was a distinction being made between painful or not in re: end of life in this treatment schema ... while I might agree with you in the event that it is most often the case, it is not always thrue that there is unamangeable pain. When my Dad died, he was really quite lucid and discomforted, but not in severe pain.
It is the slippery slope that concerns me. Who is going to evaluate how futile, how much pain, how little meds? I would like to think that would continue to be between us and the Doctor ... not to take any medicines off the table unilaterally ... not all cases are the same.
I also would make that decision for myself...terminal is terminal to me....and I have told my children no heroics for me, no code, no recisitation etc....but its not the governments job to make that decision....I think a lot of people my age (over 70) would say no also....but I cannot make that decision for anyone else....
Obama hates women.
How childish.
The problem comes in where they start handling healthcare the British way. In the UK, you can’t pay the extra 4k for the one cancer drug. If you do, they make you pay full price for all your cancer treatment.
Precisely.
Berwick is probably OK with sex changer operations, just like th Canadian “healthcare” system is.
Our politicians are going to be trying to cut costs in all areas of Federally controlled Medical Practices.
After all, they promised to do so. We figured they were lying, but they ‘figured’ that if they cut the costs that only affect the little people, and not themselves, they can still meet some of their reductions goals.
After all, they need to live longer than ‘we’ do. They are much more important. Without them, what could we do?
: )
Reductio ad absurdum
This is the crux of the issue, not whether those 3-4 months were worthwhile by some arbitrary bullshit criterion. The whole issue for conservatives shsould be private choice over private matters. And life or death is about as private as you can get.
Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases (Germany - 1933)
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