loosecannon
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- May 7, 2007
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The problem is that medical care costs...a lot. The bad news is that 5% of the population uses 50% of the medical system, and the last 3-years of life uses about 25% of the medical system. The simplest way to balance costs is to budget/ration medical care.
[I recall one GOP whine is that 90+ year olds don't get organ transplants under UHC. I agree with that, some rationing is needed, but "who" makes the live-die decisions? "death panels?"]
We need death panels. Too many people abuse their own bodies for 60 years and then consider themselves entitled to the same kind of care NASA astronauts get.
Nobody is entitled to immortality on the public dime, the insurance dime or the medical care industry's dime.
If you want world class end of life care pay as you go.