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Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life?

Exactly why health insurance and medical decisions should never be in the hands of the government.

I guarantee that even if someone has private insurance Obama will figure out a way to control it. Obama will tell people that if he didn't control it the cost of their private insurance will go through the roof then some will jump back on his regulation bandwagon.
Even the USSR had “private companies” (in name only) but were totally controlled by the Government, even down to decisions of life and death.

Exactly. If the government is involved it certainly won’t be a debate over whether six months of someone’s life is worth a million dollars. It will be over whether six months of YOUR life is is worth a measly $750.

"Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life? "

When you buy health insurance you cannot expect them to spend every penny THEY have to keep you alive. But the argument here is getting distorted- it is not how much YOU are willing to spend, it is how much of EVERYONE ELSES money you are willing to spend.

If there is a $one Trillion treatement that will keep you alive for another month is it worth it? - ok how about that next-door neighbor who always lets his dog crap on your lawn? Is it worth keeping him alive another month? OK then no one else will have any money to keep alive heart trasplant patients...

So WE ALL see the need for a cut-off point, or RATIONING.

The question is NOT that

The Question is do we let OUR DOCTORS and OUR HEALTH INSURANCE and OURSELVES decide, or do we let government bureaucrats decide (like that next-door neighbor who always lets his dog crap on your lawn- he works for the department of health, doesn't he?)