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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (914)	5/27/2005 2:21:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Rationing can be directly correlated with one's financial resources and/or the comprehensiveness of one's medical insurance coverage. That would be rationing by price rather then explicit rationing. If you have the money you get what you want/need, if you don't...

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (914)	5/31/2005 12:03:59 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Are you sure that the doctors are rationing precious resources for breast cancer surgery and not practicing lifespan management. Doctors could be doing either. My wife once stated that any surgery is major after age 65. Why should a doctor risk having a patient expire in surgery for a procedure that might add months to her life? Why should a doctor recommend surgery that might add months to ones life, but at the cost of substantial disruption to their life? Is it just age bias?