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To: Honorary Serb
Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, Ezekiel J Emanuel

Allocation of very scarce medical interventions such as organs and vaccines is a persistent ethical challenge. We evaluate eight simple allocation principles that can be classified into four categories: treating people equally, favouring the worst-off , maximising total benefits, and promoting and rewarding social usefulness.

15 posted on 04/27/2012 1:50:02 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Run Spot, run! Here comes Zer0!)
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To: MtnClimber
Communists excel at creating artificial shortages. That is what happened, for example, to the Ukrainians in the 1930s, when food became in short supply due to Stalin's deliberate policies. As a result, millions starved, but NOT the "socially useful".

Now the muslim communist obama and his minions, under obamacare, are working to make medical care, medicines, and medical devices "scarce resources", which need to be rationed and reserved for "the socially useful".

Medical research, entrepreneurship, and medical charities--as well as medical insurance and Medicare--work to make medical care better and better, and more available to those who need it. Thus American cancer patients receive better care and have longer life expectancies than British ones (governed by the socialist NHS and the death panel called "NICE").

Let's keep the American system, and keep bureaucrats, death panels, and communists OUT of the doctor-patient relationship!!!! Repeal obamacare, and repeal obama, too!!!!

21 posted on 04/27/2012 3:46:04 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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