I’m a free market guy. If I’m 95 and I have cancer, and I have a flush bank account, I expect the doctors to do their best for me.
If you’re old and poor and living off a government check and suddenly need hugely expensive medical care, I’m not sure you have a God-given right to my wallet.
I’m with you on this. This is another sob story as an excuse to pile a bunch of debt on young people.
You make a good point. Healthcare is rationed under our system right now. It’s rationed by your ability to pay through insurance or out of your own pocket. Though one of the reasons we have Medicare is because there is no profit in insuring the health of old people.
Now if the democrats were smart they would reframe their argument to why are we spending millions of dollars extending the life of an 80 year old by a few years instead of using that money to save the lives of children. Of course children don’t vote, 80 years old do.
It’s time we all take a realistic look at this issue. We complain about everyone not having all the healthcare they want and then complain about having to pay for it. I’m in the elderly category and I realize the good deal I have with my Medicare Advantage. I have medical problems BUT I go to the dr. very sparingly. I have some personal wealth and have to ask myself how much of that personal wealth am I willing to spend to extend my life and the answer to that is I’m not willing to spend all of it so why should I expect others to spend their money to extend my life. Rough, very expensive cancer treatment on the very elderly is not reasonable, especially when these treatments are no guarantee of success. There are always alternative treatments that may be more reasonable.