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I could easily believe that the elderly account for 80% of the healthcare bill — it makes perfect sense. By time you’re old your body requires more medical care. Young, healthy people do not need medical care of any description. That would surely account for the bulk of the population.

I’m surprised that presents a moral issue to your president. It should instead be bloody obvious.

Hip replacement to the terminally ill? Why not? They tend to also be elderly and to need it most. A new hip can add many years — a decade or more — to someone’s life expectancy. It can certainly enhance the quality of what life a terminally ill patient might have.

I’m stunned your president finds that a moral issue to be struggled with.

The more I read of your president the more he creeps me out.

You know what’s kind of funny about this?
When my Dad was terminal, his doctor said that he should be brought into the emergency room any time he was in too much pain and they would start chemo again and see what they could do.

My dad said no and died happily at home.

Sometimes people choose what he is proposing all by themselves.

Hip replacement to the terminally ill? Why not? They tend to also be elderly and to need it most. A new hip can add many years — a decade or more — to someone’s life expectancy. It can certainly enhance the quality of what life a terminally ill patient might have.

Sometimes refusing the hip replacement could be a purely medical decision. Some who are very ill are quite likely to not survive the hip replacement surgery. The choice between a couple more weeks in bed or dying on the operating table is medically pretty easy.

Others are not quite as sick, but will likely (also not guaranteed, everything is a probability game) survive the surgery but never be able to walk again anyway because they are too weak to do the necessary rehab. Having a nice shiny new metal hip and a surgery scar isn't going to help them much.

Where Obamacare kicks in is when the patient has a few months (likely, life expectancy predictions are like weather predictions) left to live, but can spend that getting around on a new hip or lying in bed with the broken on. This is where Dr. Zeke in Washington decides that the patient is a worthless eater and shouldn't have any treatment other than pain relief.

The more I read of your president the more he creeps me out.

I can figure out the Bleeding Heart Liberal who feels everyone's pain (well, except mine on April 15th). Obama seems to be a cold-fish psychotic only able to imitate human emotions. I just can't quite figure out what makes him tick other than a lust for power.