No 70+ year old should have any sort of transplant... it is a waste of money and resources.. no wonder the US healthcare industry is so screwed up.. money and influence trumps over logic.
Well sure. Once someone turns, say, 68, let's just withhold all medical care. Think of the savings. And it's conservatives who are supposedly heartless?
this heart, may give Dick another 5 years.
I wonder how many years it may have given a much younger & healthier person.
I think some people should stop eating because there are so many starving kids in Africa. You can't beat that logic, folks. Brilliant.
I just don't believe in withholding life saving procedures based on a person's age and you all are confirming for me that that's exactly the road universal health care goes down.#1. nice strawman. and I guess you never heard of triage?
Well let's see. It's Dick Cheney and he's pretty political. Also, we're being told that giving him a heart is a waste and somehow a failing of our health care system. I don't buy that.#2. why are you bringing politics into this thread?
I just don't believe in withholding life saving procedures based on a person's age and you all are confirming for me that that's exactly the road universal health care goes down.....
so you're against all Americans getting health care?
How can they call it a transplant when he never had a heart to begin with!!
Not sure how you got there. I'm the one saying that I oppose withholding care from people based on their age. You're the one who's opposed to older Americans getting health care.
you said you have a problem with universal health care.
universal health care, is when all citizens can get health care.
Need some new jokes here folks. This is getting a little redundant.
Except the oldies, apparently.
Not how I expected this thread to go, but am very happy it has gone into donating organs. I think doing so is a very good thing.
another strawman.
My dad is 73, do you think I want him to just die if he gets sick?
Do you support a system that would deny him a new heart because of his age?
A rabbi, a priest and a neocon walk into a bar............
Do you support a system that would deny him a new heart because of his age?