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The government has the right, to not pay for any of it.
Sustaining life is debatable.
If a person is brain dead, keeping them on life support is sustaining an empty vessel.
It's like leaving a car running, with no driver.
Having work in the medical field have seen countless times of those hard decisions.
You can see both sides of the argument. That is someone's family member and death is painful no matter what.
But somehow one has to be realistic. Have seen them put a $60,000 medical equipment into someone who dies within a month.
The good part of that is the operation is a billable item for the hospital and physician. The bad part is an ill body is forced through another operation. Even a young able body person going through a non-emergent operation is going to suffer some. Yes, the patient got to live a couple more weeks due to the operation maybe but was it worth it.
There are just so many variables that nothing is black and white. There are only so many available medical dollars available. Do we spend them on someone who has not taken medical advice to help their own body? Do we spend them on someone in prison? It just goes on and on. The bottom line is the cost. We have all paid into Medicare but no individual has paid that much to cover the potential unlimited medical procedures we can offer them.