[drbuzzard]

>Would you advocate for Death Panels to reach your goal?

Would you advocate spending $5000000 per elderly individual to keep them alive for an additional ten years? (this is an arbitrary number picked to demonstrate how stupid the expenditures well could get)

Let me interject a bit of reality here. Medicare is going broke because people don’t get to make their own choices about if life is affordable past a certain point. They, instead, get to pass that cost onto the rest of the taxpayers. Because of the socialization of the cost of that choice, eventually that choice itself will be socialized. That is inevitable. Anything else is economic nonsense.

Better that people pay for the health insurance they can afford. People will then get to make choices about their own destinies and these choices will be forced to reflect economic reality.

[tubebender]

A premie can cost $220,000 in a year would you advocate snuffing it out. For the record we filed medical directives where needed long ago...

[mimaw]

Can you tell me what is wealthy? There are not enough Warren Buffets around to make up shortfalls so what actual numbers is Lindsey talking about? I'm pretty sure I fall into the category and I wouldn't mind if I'd be assured my kids wouldn't be screwed by the tax codes the next time rats take power. I think this would have to take place only after the budget is scrubbed of all waste fraud and useless duplicate programs are eliminated. I also think gov. workers have to be reigned in and depts. eliminated. Than and only than will upper middle class American except the reduction or elimination of their SS payments. You keep saying this won't amount to much but it's a matter of fairness.