“Government compassion.”
The moral question here is the easy part. Everybody should get treated, no matter what their age.
The question of who pays for it, is considerably more complex.
When governments do not have the money, who pays?
“When governments do not have the money, who pays?”
And THIS is the ugly question, isn’t it?
Here’s one: my 95-year old grandmother’s arm disintegrated from osteoporosis. There was nothing to “set” - it turned to dust, basically. The cheap fix would have been to cut the arm off - after all, it isn’t like she was going to do manual labor again, and plenty of people get around with one arm...but they replaced the bone with plastic, which surely was a lot more expensive. Was it worth it? About a year after calling her physical therapist “an agent of Satan”...she thought so.