[Steve_Seattle]

"It’s the decision makers who are the problem. Try this on for size. You’re a 65 year old out of work living on SS and your coronary artery plugs. Without treatment you’re dead in three months. Should the “state” approve your stent?"

That is not the scenario we were talking about; I was talking abut a scenario in which a person is dead within three months even with the $100,000 treatment.

[jwalsh07]

And u think there is a big step from one to the other with bureaucrats making that decision?

[Rock N Jones]

The problem is no one knows before an operation that the patient will die in three months. There is no crystal ball. Many people gain years when it is not expected. Anyone whether 65 or not could die within three months after any procedure. To deny a person a procedure based upon age is genocide.