“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.
People want to decide for themselves whether to spend money to extend their lives. They don’t want some government bureuacrat deciding for them.
There is no way a government can balance things. Is it better to treat a drugged-up, shot-up gangbanger with a fourth grade education who has been in and out of prison, but who is 21 versus a 70 year old who has worked hard all her life and wants to live to see her grandchildren.
You cannot make these determinations based on age alone. The gangbanger has already made his decision for himself that he doesn’t value his life very much by the life choices he has made.
exactly.
Leave the government out of it. I don’t want my government making those decisions.
Also the story about O’s mother. Would you rather worry about how you were going to pay for the care or worry about how you were going to get the care?
The former are the socialized med countries; the latter is the US.