"This person suffering from hereditary
defects costs the people 60,000
Reichmarks during his lifetime. People,
that is your money. Read 'New People'."
ping.
I have my flame-proof suit on, so I'll start. How many resources should be spent on palliative therapy? And at what age? Children who have yet to live their lives but have no chance to? Oldsters who are ready to check out at 80+?
Who could be saved in the meantime using those resources?
Nice try.
Except Terri is not on "life support", she is merely getting food and water, AND her parents WANT to take her home and care for her themselves.
I think whether or not she is in PVS shouldn't even be the issue, it should be whether her husband, who has been living with another woman and has two children by her, and clearly has a conflict of interest with Terri's being kept alive, should be allowed to make life and death decisions for Terri.
Health insurance should be like car insurance. Everyone SHOULD HAVE TO HAVE IT. If you don't have it, then the government should bill you for it.
Mechanical ventilation and dialysis? What kind of a life is that?
Even with a living will??
This is NOT just about Terri.
Hospitals are agents of the State and share the sovereign power.
Wow. 75 posts and no one has mentioned that the law referenced in the article was signed by Governor George W. Bush?
This is utter BS. The notion of Death by lack of insurance is horrific.
I am willing to bet that many hospitals have this type of brain function ends when the money runs out.
I also wonder if the hospitals are trying to bury their mistakes.