Posted on 01/26/2013 1:23:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The people you’re agreeing with re: healthcare for the elderly don’t make any such distinctions. They view *any* intervention as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘wasteful’. In the UK, NOBODY over the age of 60 receives dialysis unless they pay for it. Because the authorities have stated, forthrightly, that there isn’t any return on the investment in that procedure for people so close to retirement.
Once you view medical care in terms of the states ‘return on investment’ you’ve lost any humanitarian argument.
I am completely in favor of allowing anyone, especially the elderly, to *voluntarily* refuse medical care or tests if they so desire. Refusing to give granny a new hip because she’s over 65 isn’t voluntary. But it’s entirely in our future.
Hope your mom (and mine) has a ‘new hip’ nest egg set aside. In something other than FRN’s. She will probably need it. Along with plane fare to some more civilized country as I look for Ocare to completely outlaw private transactions of that sort. They’d rather get their 55% of grandma’s nestegg when she dies than let her spend it as she sees fit while she’s here.
Psalms 103:1 ¶ [[[A Psalm] of David.]] Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name.
103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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Isaiah 53:5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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Mathew 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with [his] word, and healed all that were sick:
8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] sicknesses.
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1Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
The really stupid thing is that when people look at that graph they do not ask the questions that are screaming to be answered: Why are the costs of the aging in the USA so much higher than other countries? What are we doing that is different? What can we do differently so as to not need or be getting all of this medical attention? How much of it is pushed on us by the medical field that wants to soak up all the government money that it can? Why are they charging Americans so much more for the same drugs and health care than they are charging people of other countries? Are we eating things here that other nations do not eat, at least not nearly as much of as other nations, such as tons of highly processed foods full of chemical additives and low on actual nutrition? There are so many questions that need to be answered and they are not even being asked. It is so much easier to just kill old people than to do our homework and change what obviously needs changing. Never is there ever an excuse or reason for murder, but these people seem to love it.
Guess they don’t know about God’s Commandment:
“Honor thy Father and thy Mother.”
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