Last fall I went to visit an elderly (84 y.o) member of my aparish, who had just had a knee replacement, at a hospital here in Tampa. I got into an interesting discussion with one of the nurses on the orthopedics ward. She said there were 75 beds on the ward, with 100% occupancy, (and a waiting list)..and that 95% of them were for hip and or kneee replacements...and that the AVERAGE age of the patients was 78..
You know some people on this board will think what I am about to say is crazy and would think it is a bad thing. But I think we should let the private medical industry pursue functional immortality.
I wouldn’t mind having a couple hundred thousand of the folks from the Depression Era around to inject some real common sense. Let the libs kill of their old people, I say we find out a way to make our old people immortal.
My mother had a hip replacement when she was dying of cancer (it took six years for her to die) and having the hip replacement helped her to be able to move around for a long time afterwards.
Obama invokes grandmother’s death in health debate
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer Liz Sidoti, Associated Press
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Now, it’s personal. President Barack Obama invoked his own anguish over the death of a loved one as he challenged the debunked notion that Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care would include “death panels.”
“I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it’s like to watch somebody you love, who’s aging, deteriorate and have to struggle with that,” an impassioned Obama told a crowd as he spoke of Madelyn Payne Dunham. He took issue with “the notion that somehow I ran for public office or members of Congress are in this so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090816/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_town_hall