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Originally Posted by Villages PL
I think it needs to be taken on a case by case basis. The elderly and the obese are often in the same age group. The elderly are often overweight and suffering from cardiovascular disease. Why should the government or medicare spend any money on by pass surgery when it has been known for decades that cardiovascular disease can be reversed through diet, exercise and stress control? I suppose one could call it rationing, but if by pass surgery was no longer paid for by the government or medicare, people would simply have to make a choice. 1) they could pay for it themselves 2) they could reverse it by changing their lifestyle or 3) they could do nothing and risk dying from a heart attack or stroke.
In the end, the answer is that we need to get back to personal responsibility.
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Originally Posted by ladydoc
Same standard should be appplied to those who drink and those who smoke. They could just change their lifestyle.
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Originally Posted by Bucco
AMEN to that
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I don't want the government making those decisions for me. I guess when you're on Medicare there's a fine line. But this story about the U.K.'s socialized medicine has the government rationing out care from the day you're born, basically. You cannot have your own policy there. If you're wealthy you can leave the country and get care, but that's about it.
In the U.S. you don't have to be wealthy to supply your own healthcare. The correlation here is to see the U.K.'s National Health Service and think about how it would be under ObamaCare. Like in the U.K. only the U.S. wealthy would be able to circumvent the bureaucracy. Where they would go, I don't know.