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Reincarnation

Reincarnation and healthcare affordability

  • Case 1: reincarnation for current Medicare/Medicaid recipients

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Case 2: reincarnation with single payer

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Support reincarnation for public recipients

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • Support reincarnation for private recipients

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Restrict available procedures for public healthcare recipients, based on financial feasibility

    Votes: 3 60.0%
  • Restrict available procedures for private insurance holders

    Votes: 3 60.0%

  • Total voters
    5

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Hypothetical: Doctors have perfected a new procedure whereby people can be reincarnated by the transfer of their consciousness and memories and neuronal maps, by God, into a cloned human body, aged 21 years old. Huzzah!

The collective advice of the AMA is that this procedure be done when people are aged 65. It costs $1,000,000.

Assumptions are that their are no new babies born any longer, so the population eligible for this procedure remains constant. There is no inflation. GDP is fixed.

Case 1: current Medicare/Medicaid recipients are eligible, but everyone else has to get the procedure done with the assistance of their private insurance company. Forgetting about funding for the private insurance companies, we have 50,000,000 on the Medicare/Medicaid rolls. At $1 million each, that's $769,230,769,230 per year or rounded to $770 billion per year. This is 20% of the federal budget, and would kick the total federal budget from 25% to 30%.

Case 2: single payer is instituted and all 300 million (hypothetical??) people are covered. That's $4.62 trillion per year. This is 123% of the federal budget, and would kick the total federal budget from 25% to 55%.

Which case should be funded publicly? Are there limits to which medical procedures to offer publicly covered healthcare recipients, for financial affordability reasons? Private healthcare insurance recipients? How do we decide the financially feasible procedures?
 
Why would anybody even want that? Death is as natural as breathing and pooping.
 
Why would anybody even want that? Death is as natural as breathing and pooping.

who wouldnt want to be immoral enternity, Immortal for forever baby
 
If you don't keep your clone updated, you could lose the ability to fly all those nifty t2 ships.

Thankfully I've only ever played the 14-day trial...i wasn't prepared to waste money and have my life and academic career destroyed by MMOs. But if you like to be reincarnated, and are willing to pay a fee, that's the way to go.
 
Thankfully I've only ever played the 14-day trial...i wasn't prepared to waste money and have my life and academic career destroyed by MMOs. But if you like to be reincarnated, and are willing to pay fee, that's the way to go.

I have much shame, for I've played on and off since launch.
 
Hypothetical: Doctors have perfected a new procedure whereby people can be reincarnated by the transfer of their consciousness and memories and neuronal maps, by God, into a cloned human body, aged 21 years old. Huzzah!

The collective advice of the AMA is that this procedure be done when people are aged 65. It costs $1,000,000.

Assumptions are that their are no new babies born any longer, so the population eligible for this procedure remains constant. There is no inflation. GDP is fixed.

Case 1: current Medicare/Medicaid recipients are eligible, but everyone else has to get the procedure done with the assistance of their private insurance company. Forgetting about funding for the private insurance companies, we have 50,000,000 on the Medicare/Medicaid rolls. At $1 million each, that's $769,230,769,230 per year or rounded to $770 billion per year. This is 20% of the federal budget, and would kick the total federal budget from 25% to 30%.

Case 2: single payer is instituted and all 300 million (hypothetical??) people are covered. That's $4.62 trillion per year. This is 123% of the federal budget, and would kick the total federal budget from 25% to 55%.

Which case should be funded publicly? Are there limits to which medical procedures to offer publicly covered healthcare recipients, for financial affordability reasons? Private healthcare insurance recipients? How do we decide the financially feasible procedures?
Bleh, I don't think anyone should be able to live forever. Also, it seems like you are saying everybody would need this procedure once a year. I don't follow that.
 
Bleh, I don't think anyone should be able to live forever. Also, it seems like you are saying everybody would need this procedure once a year. I don't follow that.

No, every 65 years, for the number of people specified, at $1 million each. I divide that total by 65 years to get the yearly cost. Figure an even distribution of people get it done each year. (i.e from Case 1: 50,000,000 people spread out over 65 years or 769,231 people per year at a cost of $770 billion per year).
 
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Nobody needs to live forever. Just imagine if Hitler kept reincarnating himself.
 
Reincarnation for those determined to "deserve" it, including the people who get to decide who deserves it and who doesn't.
 
Today is a good day to die. Reincarnate? Not so much.
 
Damn, people! It's a ****ing hypothetical. If you don't like the idea of being able to rerincarnate, imagine that the procedure can double the size of your dick or make your punani twice as sensitive. It still costs a $1 million each.

The point, in case some of you ****ing missed it, and all of you except Viktyr ****ing missed it - thanks man, is should the public pay for expensive medical treatment? What is the limit? Christ!

Now I am frustrated even before I have gotten to work. Crap. Thanks a lot people.
 
I say that everyone has to pay 1 million to the government to get reincarneted. That will give people an incentive to perform (and also give us a lot of tax money, because you save money from their retirement) and we can say to our kids. If you want to get reicarnated, then you have to do well at school and get a well paying job. :mrgreen:
 
Reincarnation for those determined to "deserve" it, including the people who get to decide who deserves it and who doesn't.

Wouldn't deciding who gets to be reincarnated and who doesn't be just as same as killing the person?
 
Theoretically, they would revert back to 21 and be able to work some more and pay taxes. The government would save money on caring for seniors and those "seniors" would return to work.
 
Why would anybody even want that? Death is as natural as breathing and pooping.

But dying sucks. If everyone were living forever, who wouldn't want to join in?
 
Wouldn't deciding who gets to be reincarnated and who doesn't be just as same as killing the person?

No more so than deciding who gets health care and who doesn't. Right now we let the market decide that.
 
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