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To: robertpaulsen
So we should keep brain damaged patients alive forever, at no charge?

If we need to do it often enough, someone will figure out a cheaper way to do it.

No need to kill, to save a few bucks.

94 posted on 06/20/2005 6:32:36 AM PDT by syriacus (1st Michael couldn't stand to live without Terri. Then he couldn't stand to live with her.)
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To: syriacus
No need to kill, to save a few bucks.

The money that will be freed-up by simplifying the tax code can be used to retrain the resultant unemployed IRS employees and CPAs to care for the infirm.

I'd rather that our money went to them to care for sick people, than have it go to them for filling out forms.

96 posted on 06/20/2005 7:45:13 AM PDT by syriacus (1st Michael couldn't stand to live without Terri. Then he couldn't stand to live with her.)
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To: syriacus
No need to kill, to save a few bucks.

It's odd how often the cost argument comes up.

Even a person with a cursory understanding of Terri's case should know that

- Terri was NOT "brain dead"
- the cost of care for Terri (had her parents been allowed to take her home and care for her themselves) would have differed very little from what it takes to support us supposedly sentient people (how much extra does a can of Ensure cost, compared to a steak dinner?); and
- Terri's parents were ready to assume all costs of caring for her.

And even if all the above were not true, the "cost" argument is truly Hillary-Care-esque.

Beyond Terri's case, the decision to withhold health care because of some bureaucratically imposed "cost vs. quality of life" quotient is a very slippery slope indeed.

103 posted on 06/20/2005 8:48:55 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
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To: syriacus
No need to kill, to save a few bucks.

The baby boomers on the horizon will drive the costs into the multi-BILLIONS!

It is the managed care and long term care industry that is the force behind the curtain. Felos and Michael are puppets.

106 posted on 06/20/2005 9:04:58 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: syriacus
No need to kill, to save a few bucks.

Right. Absolutely no alternative but to kill. So, just turn us into a nation of people that kill their own because the country has no brain power to solve problems - just kill the problem.

Nevermind the fact that America has always been known for protecting the weak, rushing to help any anywhere in times of tragedy. Just turn America into one that chooses to kill off those unable to speak, those "some" evaluate as unworthy of life, because it is just too expensive.

Just destroy the America that became the most powerful and turn it into a socialistic community where some elite get to deal out death to the weak, deformed, undesirable.

Very conservative of them isn't it? They conveniently ignore that each of us is an American citizen entitled to LIFE with constitutional rights. And, they conveniently ignore that they have been given NO AUTHORITY to judge the worth of another's life. I don't remember any election or authority given to those writing these laws that detail what criteria determines death.

115 posted on 06/20/2005 10:50:29 AM PDT by ClancyJ (McCain: "As far as the criticism is concerned, none of us care about public opinion.")
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