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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6348)3/13/2009 9:56:52 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I think that it's cheaper to let a diabetic die young even with expensive end-of-life treatment than to pay for the massive amount of low and moderate cost treatment over an additional twenty or thirty year lifetime. The simplest and most direct way to make the system less expensive is for more people to die in middle age.

You are precisely correct. If you want to make the health care system more "cost effective", just quit treating people who are over 50. Let 'em (us, actually) die.

A variant of this was the essence of what was discussed in a news article that came out about the time of the stimulus bill. In that arrangement, a "board" or "czar" would determine the relative value in treating a patient based on the expected outcome. If the ratio of the cost to expected benefit was insufficient, the treatment would not be allowed.

I don't know why we treat all these old people anyway.
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