Peter Singer should take his own advice. He has nothing to offer society.
Yet these are the same people who want to give a blank check for care of illegals in this country.
* - please do not pay attention to the two tiered system of government official, their families and others with political pull getting treatment you aren't allowed to have.
“If there is any point at which you say, ‘No, an extra six months isn’t worth that much,’ then you think that health care should be rationed.”
That is non-sequitur. It can only makes sense if one assumes there to be a collective responsibility for paying and a collective authority for deciding.
We get rationing while he and his friends get anything they need, paid by our labor.
RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING, RATIONING
Your Senators are waiting to hear this from each of us.
What they completely miss: If you remove the funds that led to that extra 6 months breakthrough, you will destroy the incremental medical breakthroughs that lead to 6 months, 6 years, and ultimately a cure.
If they had their way in 1950, we’d still have 1950’s medicine and everyone would just die from cancer.
And all these advances were built on private profit and the treatments help poor as well as rich.
Soylent Green is People Feeding People.
First they came for the unborn, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t unborn...
I think most of us know where this is headed. We let the evil geenie out of the bottle when we started offing our young.
Where it’s going is hell on earth.
According to Pete, you no longer have a right to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. I question his patriotism.
They will ration healthcare, but not to save money. The reason is that they hate the idea that someone can afford care and another person can’t. They want equal outcome - so what if people have to die to achieve it.
Oh, and the liberal elite won’t have to face such awful things. Their healthcare system is free and platinum plated.
Wow I’m glad he’s not in charge. My mother would have been dead by now!
This POS would have made Hitler proud.
Obama just said on TV that we have ‘to buck up’.....he’s already bucked up, BIG TIME!!!!!
And that's where the trouble started...
Rationing.....and there’s the added benefit of paying fewer people Social Security, Medicare, Medicade, and SSI.
A big incentive for the government to deny care to the elderly.
I always like to respond to socialists in kind; to refute their arguments on the same plane. That way they can’t say I changed the subject. Here’s the appropriate argument:
Sutent was created by a thorough and well-funded research program that has the goal of curing cancer. Without this research, Sutent would not exist. Nor would all of the other drugs, surgical procedures and technologies that have rolled back the curse of this dreadful disease. The drugs, like Sutent, must be tried on human populations to determine their effectiveness, and the data gained guides scientists in creating the next generation of drugs. Those drugs may not only prolong life with better quality, but may actually reverse and cure the disease. That research has a cost, and is most effectively borne by an insurance coverage system. The private sector, driven by motivations of profit and achievement, provide the competitive milieu to accomplish this.
Also, by spreading these costs of research and development through the insurance system, all members benefit directly, not just the isolated recipient of Sutent. Because we are all going to become ill someday. Without trying out these drugs on everyone, no one has the chance to beat what was once an incurable disease. And what human talent and ability is lost because of this? Will a talented physicist, who could have discovered a new source of energy for our planet, not make that breakthrough because he died of cancer at age 44? You cannot be selective here; you cannot spare the physicist and sacrifice the plumber because the plumber is “less important.” Without the research data gained by trying to save all, you wind up saving none.
Even you, Mr. Singer. Someday you may be diagnosed with cancer, or ALS, or Alzheimer’s disease. Under your system, you will be declared “obsolete,” and sacrificed on the altar of your socialist eugenics god. Perhaps if the proper research had taken place, there could have been a cure for your ailment. But alas, you deemed that it was not worth saving the “lost.” No research was done that might have saved you.
Too bad you condemned yourself to an earlier death than you otherwise would have had. But I won’t feel sorry for you; you brought it upon yourself. Instead I would feel pity for the millions of others you condemned to an early death. And the billions of all of us who suffered because of that loss of human potential.
He wants the rest of us to do what he and a few others he deems worthy will be exempt from, through their own wealth, rationalizing or perceived 'usefulness', ie his profession.
And who defines how much is too much to spend? How long is too long to savor another day? Is one life worth more than another? Oh, that's the best part - he thinks only he and people like him can do that.
And woe to us will be the suckers, the 'little people', who vote for it, endorse it, buy into it thinking it will be for everyone else, except them.
In a socialist system, there is still rationing, only it is now done by unelected government officials making rules as to what they believe is the common good. To be totally fair, they do have input from the Congress, which is at least theoretically representative of the people's wishes.
The problem is that government officials get to make the decisions, as opposed to the free market, their inherent human biases come out and they decide who gets what based not on need, as Marx said, but on who they THINK has a need. This distorts the market so badly that you end up with situations like the one in England where people are pulling their own teeth because they can't get in to see dentists.
Liberals, blinded by their Marxist religion, believe that this is a better system somehow.