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To: RFEngineer

“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.


79 posted on 01/25/2014 6:53:32 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: The Antiyuppie

“Was it worth it? About a year after calling her physical therapist “an agent of Satan”...she thought so.”

It was certainly the right thing to do, morally.

However, ultimately cost comes to the forefront of any socialist system, ahead of morality.

Medicare IS a socialist system. The same thing WILL happen here - with or without Obamacare. It’s just a matter of time and money.


106 posted on 01/25/2014 8:17:36 PM PST by RFEngineer
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