silvadel
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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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Scenario...
70 year old is told that he is being denied expensive operation/drug Y that in their estimation would give them 5 years of life instead of 2 years of life... Thing is that estimation is because it is the only thing that actually had a chance of curing what they have and the treatment they will get will be only palliative....
Said old person goes on a shooting rampage against government officials -- or a relative of said old person....
leading to
Controls on old people who are told there is nothing the health care system will do for them because they are not worth the expense.
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...Perhaps.....?
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Medical death panels only exist in the minds of Americans.
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i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
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old people are basically overhead anyway.
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There are no death panels. There are intelligent, reasonable, and rational decisions to not waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on futile care for people with no quality of life or hope of recovery. We complain about our costs and outcomes when the real damage is done by pursuing maximally aggressive care in futile cases...
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Hiakisha posted:
i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
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Hiakisha posted:
i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
More like old person has nothing to lose and takes it out on those who said he wasnt worth keeping around for a few more years.
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silvadel posted:
Hiakisha posted:
i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
More like old person has nothing to lose and takes it out on those who said he wasnt worth keeping around for a few more years.
yeah, that sounds like what old people do.
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deadcactus posted:
There are no death panels. There are intelligent, reasonable, and rational decisions to not waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on futile care for people with no quality of life or hope of recovery. We complain about our costs and outcomes when the real damage is done by pursuing maximally aggressive care in futile cases...
LOL @ anyone who thinks that our government can accomplish this. Oh, and what you've described is a death panel.
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