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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (6571)	4/1/2009 5:07:15 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) of 42652

I think the point in Tim's piece was apt, that there comes a time when you just don't try to treat everything. You pick a few and let the rest go unattended. You either pick a couple that are necessary for life or you pick a few that make life more agreeable while the first bunch do you in. You are probably right. But it's not the US way. That would be 'rationing care' and smack of socialism (and also lawsuits). My Dad was a doctor way back when; retired in the 70's. I'm almost sure that back in those days doctors made what they thought were rational life/death decisions wrt to their patients. Probably sometimes based on their ability to afford treatment... if it would break their family they probably said there was no effective treatment available. Few if any lawsuits in those days, no Internet, probably hard to find information anywhere except a medical library. He also treated patients for free if they didn't have money. Every Christmas when I was a kid we would get dozens of gift from people who he had treated and couldn't pay. I remember getting this handmade blanket thing from a woman who said he saved her life and she still couldn't pay... but she would pray for him forever. Maybe not a bad deal.

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