They’re not two separate issues. Withholding food and water is a way to kill people off to ration the health care.
Either way, it’s killing people. The only difference is whether the murders can make themselves come off as looking like the heroes or villains.
By withholding food and water and convincing everyone it’s a merciful death and quality of life, yada, yada, yada,, they can kill off the *useless eaters*. It’s a stealth way of rationing healthcare without being so blatantly obvious about it.
They’re appealing to a different reason like they’re all concerned about what the poor person is going through, and then they don’t have to pick and choose who to *ration* (read: kill off) and catch flack for death panels and rationed healthcare.
“...withholding food and water and convincing everyone it’s a merciful death and quality of life, yada, yada, yada,, they can kill off the *useless eaters*. It’s a stealth way of rationing healthcare without being so blatantly obvious about it.”
The above passage is the strongest “economy-of-words” argument that we have on the issue. Great!