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Originally Posted by rubicon
We will continue to carry people who will not be able to afford medical care. In the meantime Obama?Care and health related regulations being implemented will make it prohibitive for employers to offer health insurance. Many retirees are provided with medicare supplements from their employers that will disappear. Obama will push us to a single payer plan. and despite what Team Obama supporters say older adults will be sacrifaced because they are the people who will need more care. do you want to be told your too old to be given are for an heart aliment or cancer? There are proviso in the plan that restrict such care.
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Who would you give a heart transplant to if only one was available. A 25 y/o or an 80 y/o. Reality is that limited resources have to be allocated in a way that makes sense. What you are advocating is unlimited care for everyone without holding them responsible for paying SOMETHING for it. If you want cradle to death care, support tax increases earmarked for health care. You are very inconsistent.Personally, my health care directive says that I do NOT want excessive care or extraordinary measures to keep me alive. I am a realist and a cancer survivor and if things get bad, my directive says to just keep me painfree, not alive on machines or transplants. So yes, I would be ok with being told at 75 I could only receive pallitive treatment. When you have had cancer, you come to terms with your own mortality rather quickly. Quality of life is an important issue and I have defined my clearly in my directive. Have you?