[ScaniaBoy]

Above his pay-grade, evidently.

[Catsrus]

In other words, he would’ve given his grandmother a pain pill and sent her home. Apparently, she wasn’t worth the cost of the hip replacement.

What a jerk!

[Sparko]

From article: Obama said “you just get into some very difficult moral issues” when considering whether “to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill.

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Obama's rationale of "terminally ill" in its utmost conclusion really means that hip replacements are useless no matter what the age: we all will end up on his clunker heap sooner or later.