Interesting article. Alzheimers is a terrible disease. When someone you love is suffering money is secondary to the family unless they can’t afford the cost. When society bears the cost it is a cruel dilemma.
When we were shedding red tape, unnecessary regulations, bringing industry back to the USA and becoming a fuel exporter there was more money for healthcare.
Now that Biden has hollowed out America there is a need for triage. The pharmaceutical industry is unregulated but in many cases the American people are the end payor. Seeing Vivek’s manipulation of the system where billions are scattered in pursuit of vague possibilities and money is syphoned despite failure I believe we must do better.
NIH is completely corrupt spending billions on unnecessary & bizarre research much benefiting foreign countries, not to mention the deaths due to illegal gain of function studies paid for under Fauci & others. If NIH functioned as it was intended it could support basic research of the kind that has led to advances in science.
The freewheeling method going on at present guarantees that the connected will enrich themselves at the expense of the American people. There needs to be discipline in the system but it will be difficult to introduce. People like Vivek would have no motivation to introduce such discipline. Trump did take on Pharmy to lower insulin prices. Biden quickly retreated. Trump has shown recognition of the issue and after his experiences w/Fauci and the FDA he may be the one to start reigning in the abuses of the present system.
I hold out scant hope of formative change and have no expectations.
We have fallen victim to preservation of life no matter the cost and medicine is bleeding us dry to that end. I would not play god but let nature take its course in favor of quality of life in lieu of suffering for all. A person who has lost the ability to function with no hope of recovery needs to die with some dignity instead of on a machine being force fed with a gastric tube.
None of us honestly knows how brave we will be when faced with the end. Fight or resignation to our fate. I have not seen two exactly the same. I will not hazard to guess even my own thoughts on this about me let alone anyone else.
Very tough issue and I have no answer I am willing to commit to but we do the right thing for suffering animals.