So my mother is dead. (older, disabled)
My son is dead. (diabetic)
My daughter is dead. (heart valve condition)
And I’m supposed to be OK with this?
Sorry, but I will fight to my last breath before I’ll surrender our most vulnerable to the government’s gentle ministrations.
We are NOT animals. We do NOT cull human beings. We fight for everyone, *especially* our weakest. Otherwise we’re no better than dogs.
Be a human being. Use your G-d given compassion.
Try acting rationally. As it happens I am older (66), disabled, diabetic, and am in 3rd stage Congestive Heart Failure and A-Fib. In the circumstances being considered I would be less likely to be treated than any of your folks. I definitely want to go on living, but if I found that a Doctor had to let a healthy young person die and treated me because of some policy of fairness, I would feel ashamed.
In big and small ways, rationing is a form of triage and with the new health care, there will be a govt bureau encharged with deciding what treatments are given, which are not. A form of everyday triage.
I do think “ethicists” are people who love to talk about who gets “culled” and appointed themselves to do so.
It sickens me {mostly because I will be culled right off the bat}
Do you own a gun? If so, one would think that your loved ones would get care if you have a gentle talk, with said gun in hand, with the docs.
I guess the only thing you can do is get off your butt and help the 50 thousand doctors and nurses help 300 million people. That is seriously what it will take. the healthier people will suddenly become doctors and nurses to help the 300 million people.
Is it more compassionate to save twenty people, or a hundred?
Triage assumes that there aren't enough resources to help everyone at once. Someone has to be at the front of the line and someone at the end; it's not a deli, where help is first come, first served.
Priority goes to those people who are in most urgent need of care. If resources are strained, the next priority is those who are most likely to be savable. Is it "compassionate" for a team of doctors to spend hours working on one patient who's likely to die anyway, while a dozen patients who could be saved die waiting for a doctor?
In times like that, they have to do what they can to save the most lives possible.
You go fight it out with the others. OK?!
#26...AMEN!
Sorry, but I will fight to my last breath before I’ll surrender our most vulnerable to the government’s gentle ministrations.
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As will millions of Americans. It’s time we took OUR country back. A few hundred in DC have NO RIGHT, NONE, to make health care decisions for MILLIONS. Kick the dirty bas**rds out.
Not to mention all with disabilities and Down’s Syndrome babies, that’s who they really want to kill. Bureaucrats want to have the power of life or death over you. Control freaks, and pure evil, the hobgoblin of little minds.