re: #1011 realwest

Ya know, as someone who is “gravely ill” with cancer, and is over 62 years of age that scares the crap out of me. As someone over 80 years of age who is in ok health (but with Type II diabetes) like my Mom, I could see where that “allocation” or rationing system could lead to violence, ya know?
Not that I’m advocating violence Stinky, just sayin…

This is a VERY personal issue NOW for a lot of Americans and it’s gonna become more personal with many more Americans in the years to come.
And part of the reason there’s a shortage of primary care physicians is because of Medicare which won’t pay them anything like a fair fee for physicals and just general health care problems.
And I have to say that it would be cheaper (and we’d all get better medical care) if the government just paid for healthcare benefits for those who CAN’T AFFORD them - and give the government more of a rooting interest in healthcare benefits/costs. I’ve been advised, for example only, that pharmacuetical companies spend TWICE as much for advertising PRESCRPTION DRUGS as they do on R&D and that’s just fucking WRONG.
/sorry, rant over.

I can see the future government job of ‘Social Marker’. This persons job is to put an ‘x’ on patients who the bureaucrat deems not worth attempting to save. “For the greater good…”

This recession was explicitly caused by failed socialist policies. This ‘stimulus’ will be the death of some people.

I want to be wrong.