Posted on 08/10/2009 4:12:10 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
All the "best people" like Peter Singer, the bioethics professor from Princton who, a few short years ago, was advocating POST-NATAL ABORTIONS! praise Obama's Shovel-Ready Healthcare! Please read his article.
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?
The costs of the current health care system are becoming increasingly clear, and public sentiment for a more systematic approach may be growing. We’d like to know what you think about the prospect of rationing.
If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn’t going to be good. But suppose it’s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man — and everyone else like him — with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life? If there is any point at which you say, “No, an extra six months isn’t worth that much,” then you think that health care should be rationed.
In the current U.S. debate over health care reform, “rationing” has become a dirty word. Meeting last month with five governors, President Obama urged them to avoid using the term, apparently for fear of evoking the hostile response that sank the Clintons’ attempt to achieve reform...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Ah, Peter Singer. What’s also creepy and strangely ironic about this guy is that his parents escaped the Nazi’s (fled to Australia), but his grandparents weren’t quite so lucky - they died in a Nazi death camp.
“You can’t put a price on a human life.”
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Sure you can. It’s done every day. I despise government involvement in health care but it is necessary to put a price on human life. Just for one example if all cars were built with governors that would prevent speeds of more than five miles per hour there would probably be no deaths from collisions. Obviously the price for that is too high. The price of eliminating death from airplane crashes would be the elimination of air travel. Obviously that price is too high. There really is no way to live WITHOUT putting a price on human life in one way or another. Many lives could be saved if we just all give up every shred of freedom. If nobody could ski nobody would run into a tree on a ski slope, if nobody could go boating or swimming nobody would die in boating accidents or drown while swimming or be attacked by a shark and killed while swimming. I could go on and on, do you want to pay that price?
“Rationing means awarding a right to something by state edict. Price means each individual can decide for himself what a thing is worth and whether or not he wants to give up what it takes to secure it.”
Mr JasonC is correct.
No, Peter Singer — enough said. The worst of the worst — the people we would laugh at what kooks they are now running our country... that should scare the hell out of everyone.
Clearly written by a psychopath.
So why don’t you go some place else and continue to go on and on?
I made a very simple statement and I will stick by it.
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