[wagglebee]

Finally, there's most likely countless patients whose lives depend on one of these life support machines becoming quickly available and who will die if one doesn't.

First of all, we are talking about a FEEDING TUBE, not life support.

Feeding tubes have been used with varying degrees of success for over FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. The early problems with them are entirely due to not having modern plastics to use and infections which are now irrelevant due to common antibiotics.

There is NO SHORTAGE of feeding tubes.

Hard decisions must be made. These machines are very expensive and there's more people who need them than there are machines available to use. That's an ugly truth but a truth nonetheless.

Actually, this isn't true at all. Feeding tubes are inexpensive to produce and cost about $700 a week to use.

You may not realize it, actually you almost certainly do, but you are pushing rationing and death panels. Your position is EXACTLY THE SAME AS OBAMA'S.

[RnMomof7]

YEP