I’ve been thinking about the threat to disabled children. They’re “useless feeders” too.
That is scary.
Americans should have a strong appreciation for this. These kinds of formulas are common in national systems and are now creeping into Medicare. This thrusts them into the US system overall, big time, nearly overnight.
Soon, life and death decisions will be common in our system, and the cost will be high for American families wanting to preserve the lives of loved ones or themselves.
Dude, where’s the ‘keep your laws off my body’ chicks, now?
You are so right. One of the goals of this board is to evaluate cost / benefit values of treatment and technology and order the cheaper treatment if it is almost as good as the newer, more expensive treatment or equipment. In other words, no improved x-ray machines, or heart monitors, or pace makers. No new joint replacement devices, the old is good enough.
That’s the key, good enough. Aim for mediocrity, it’s only fair.
The reality, however, is that people ought to be making the same calculations with their OWN money. What’s objectionable is having the government take everybody’s money in taxes, and then make these calculations and act on them, without the individual in question getting the benefit of being able to pass on money that she decides not to spend on herself due to poor cost/benefit outlook.
Isn’t it funny that the pro-abortion people (Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Daschle) who support this nonsense will spew the following rhetoric when supporting abortion and FOCA:
“FOCA is about making sure that women have control over their own bodies by stopping undue governmental interference with what is quite possibly the most personal decision a woman could ever have to make.”
What about a person’s right to choose to live? Keep the government out of health care decisions!
Where’s Michael Steele?
This is akin to Hitler’s Germany, where you’ve got the government deciding who will live and who will die.
Can anyone tell me how national health care, with its rationing of care, is any different than the Nazis singling out certain peoples for extermination? Except instead of actively shoving them into gas chambers the sick and the old are simply left to die without treatment. No difference as far as I can see. This is true of Canada, the UK and any other country that practices this BS.
Maybe this portends the end to treating gays with HIV. Since it may be prohibitively expensive to keep treating people with HIV, the government may simply decide that they should just get full blown AIDS and die.
I just read about some other bad news that is included in the Pelosi version of the bill. She is ending Cliniton’s welfare reform, returning to open ended benefits with no work requirements. She wants to create ghettos, like in Paris, where the out of work “youths” burn cars for entertainment.
The Nazis thought in the same terms. I remember seeing posters where they showed the feable and infirm versus the cost to care for them.