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To: steve harris who wrote (440436)	8/13/2011 4:27:17 PM
From: Zakrosian	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794072

Our men and women in our armed forces give their lives every day for you and me, is it that much of a sacrifice for you and me to give a pacemaker to a 99 year old grandmother? I don't quite get the connection between the military and a grandmother whose life is going to end soon regardless of how much money is spent on health services. But it's end of life health care that's going to bankrupt the country. How about a compromise - make it available through Medicaid, but not Medicare? If you have the money, you pay for it; if you don't, then the taxpayers pick up the bill, just as we do with nursing home expenses. Bottom line is, health care services have to be rationed and the question is how that's going to be done. How many heart bypass surgeries should taxpayers pay for in the case of a morbidly obese individual whose main caloric intake comes from Big Macs? How many liver transplants for severe alcoholics? How much in HIV treatment for drug users and the sexually promiscuous? And emergency care for accident victims who refuse to wear seat belts? Or emergency care for some 20 year old gang banger with a rap sheet 10 pages long who gets shot in a drug deal gone bad? Unfortunately, these are questions I don't see being asked very often.