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Is there a reason you responded twice?
I don't think healthcare is a right, so what's your point?
Not that I'm a fan of it, but I don't think you understand the proposed system.
I don't know how much more blunt I have to be - this is no different from any situation today. Medicare will not cover a $2m/year treatment that would keep a comatose person alive. They will cover the cost of short term care and pulling the plug. Is that "killing"?
No, they're absolute ****. What's your point?
Do you not see how "what kind of healthcare you can get through them" is different from "what kind of healthcare you can get"?
LMAO! Well, healthcare is being sold as a "right" by the government. So, either you provide everybody the equal right, or it cant be a right at all.
I don't think healthcare is a right, so what's your point?
2nd, if you condone rationing of care, how is that better quality care, which is also a staple of the government run health system.
Not that I'm a fan of it, but I don't think you understand the proposed system.
Perhaps you didnt watch the video? They sent her a letter telling her instead of paying for chemotherapy, they would most certainly pay for physician assisted death. I dont know how more blunt they have to be for you to understand that.
I don't know how much more blunt I have to be - this is no different from any situation today. Medicare will not cover a $2m/year treatment that would keep a comatose person alive. They will cover the cost of short term care and pulling the plug. Is that "killing"?
Just turn to Medicare and Medicaid as examples. Those stellar programs are running in the black arent they?
No, they're absolute ****. What's your point?
Um, what is the difference b/w deciding what healthcare you get and deciding what to pay for? If the government is gonna determine what it will pay for, then they are also determining what kind of healthcare you can get through them.
Do you not see how "what kind of healthcare you can get through them" is different from "what kind of healthcare you can get"?