[BuckeyeTexan]

I missed one question during show the following is heavily paraphrased from memory.

Q. Will there be definitive cut offs for continued medical care/treatment for the elderly if that treatment is outside of recommended guidelines or will the patient’s continued quality of life be evaluated on an individual basis?

A. We want to prevent extensive/expensive treatments simply to prolong lives without really making the patient any better. In some cases, we’ll ask the patient to take the pain pills instead of getting the surgery. In those ways we’ll be able to save money for those cases (like the 105 year old mom who received a pacemaker at 95) who will benefit from the extensive treatments.

Esentia

[BuckeyeTexan]

ABC’s Nightline up next in a minute with continued questions for the president.

[Chgogal]

“A. We want to prevent extensive/expensive treatments simply to prolong lives without really making the patient any better. In some cases, we’ll ask the patient to take the pain pills instead of getting the surgery. In those ways we’ll be able to save money for those cases (like the 105 year old mom who received a pacemaker at 95) who will benefit from the extensive treatments.”

Assuming your memory is correct, who the heck is “we”? IOW, I'm going to let Rahm Emanuel determine if I live or die? Like Hell!

[tina07]

is that how he got rid of ole granny????

I cannot stand this thing called ZerO

[bustinchops]

This answer given here is the heart of the issue. It’s the “money line” in the whole thing.

“A. We want to prevent extensive/expensive treatments simply to prolong lives without really making the patient any better. In some cases, we’ll ask the patient to take the pain pills instead of getting the surgery. In those ways we’ll be able to save money for those cases (like the 105 year old mom who received a pacemaker at 95) who will benefit from the extensive treatments.”