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That rarely happens now. Why do you think it will happen more in the future, if politicians don't further screw things up?I don't really think it matters what system is in place...even if Obamacare is repealed and we revert to what we have now. At some point, decisions (or the results of failures to make any) will be necessary. I believe they are now.
It is not uncommon these days to find people my age who seriously expect to live to be 90 or more. That was almost unheard of when I was young. Add to that the various and very expensive medical advances that have been made, like transplants, and the fact is IMO, we will have to ration care.
As repugnant as it may be to countenance denying care to enhance life to an elderly person (or whatever route we choose to go), in my view anything is better than merely denying care based soley on economic status.
What a tremendously ironic thread...
What's happening in Britain is that the new right-wing government is basically dismantling the National Health Service (they call it 'decentralizing' it, I'd call it 'denationalizing').
In other words, the British government is doing what most of those who label themselves "conservatives" here would theoretically be completely in favor of if it were done to Medicare and Medicaid. They are moving in the opposite direction of government run health care. And this is the result.
Patients’ groups have described the measures as “astonishingly brutal”.
Yes, and as more families are affected by unemployment etc. fewer will be so quick to shrug off the idea of government-mandated healthcare here, either.
Will someone please tell me when the fuck American insurance companies became so beloved?
I don't really think it matters what system is in place...even if Obamacare is repealed and we revert to what we have now. At some point, decisions (or the results of failures to make any) will be necessary. I believe they are now.
It is not uncommon these days to find people my age who seriously expect to live to be 90 or more. That was almost unheard of when I was young. Add to that the various and very expensive medical advances that have been made, like transplants, and the fact is IMO, we will have to ration care.
As repugnant as it may be to countenance denying care to enhance life to an elderly person (or whatever route we choose to go), in my view anything is better than merely denying care based soley on economic status.
They also think that because some are poor and suffer, EVERYONE should suffer along with them.
And that's loony.