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To: wagglebee

Be practical. EVERYTHING is rationed. Even health care from private insurance companies. Someone WILL make that decision. Whether it is the individual or their family or an insurance bureaucrat or a government bureaucrat. They WILL make it. Hopefully the individual and their family will make good choices that balance the care they get with the expectations of that care.

Look at it this way: should a person expect the insurance company to pay for a procedure that will extend their life for 6 months if the cost is $2,000?

Okay, what if the cost is $20,000,000,000 and the person will be in a coma the whole time?

I’ll bet that you are tending to say that $20 billion is too much in that case. Does that make you a supporter of health care rationing?


33 posted on 02/28/2011 5:29:22 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
However, once rationing is accepted as a premise, the monetary caps always go down and not up.
34 posted on 02/28/2011 5:34:04 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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