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

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (3487)	12/24/2007 4:26:10 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

People informally make these sorts of calculations for themselves when they have serious illnesses such as cancer. Yes, they do. It's only a public issue when they're spending wads of communal money. If health care were entirely private, it wouldn't be an issue. My father, who recently died in hospice care, had a much higher threshold for adequate quality of life that I did, but I respected his threshold and let him go. Since he chose to go earlier rather than later, excessive communal funds weren't at stake. I do know, though, of people who chase costly (not to them) miracles.

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (3487)	12/26/2007 1:39:17 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

Discussion of rationing care is an interesting intellectual exercise. In countries where rationing was instituted along with healthcare improvements people may not have even realized that it was happening. If the US were to implement government healthcare rationing it would be short lived. There are too many people who believe that in America we are entitled to freedom of choice and that we should be able to make choices that affect our own health. While there are many who would be desirous of the power, I would never risk working in the government bureaucracy that sentenced people to death because they were not healthy enough to live. The potential for backlash and treatment like war crimes is too great of a risk.