I think he is looking at a ‘class’ of people who have a health condition that is deteriorating and we’ve invented great science to prolong this deterioration. It’s like being told you are suddenly (out of the blue) in stage four of cancer. There’s treatment that didn’t exist thirty years ago and they can burn through $50,000 of cost in a matter of six weeks to give you that treatment and buy you two to six months of extra time. At some point, you will ask where the $50,000 came from, and it’s from the big pot of money for Medicare and regular insurance.
Science does a lot of things and there’s a price-tag attached to each plus-up.
As long as people have a quality of life, I don’t have much discussion on this topic. It’s when they don’t have a quality of life and science bumps into the issue....giving us options that don’t have much real value unless you had a quality of life attached.
I don’t believe in heroic efforts if there is no hope for recovery either.
But now we have a lot of things that can make people live longer and if you look at what Carson said he said this impacts the labor market. That’s eugenics.
By the way if anybody is still upset at the remarks made by Donald Trump about Carson go on Youtube and watch what Reverend Manning has to say. Trump pales by comparison.