Posted on 07/19/2009 5:47:29 AM PDT by tobyhill
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?
If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn’t going to be good. But suppose it’s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man — and everyone else like him — with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life? If there is any point at which you say, “No, an extra six months isn’t worth that much,” then you think that health care should be rationed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I believe Rush has got it pegged: Obama thinks nothing is special about America and it has limits on all sides.
This country, founded on unbridled optimism by our founders, is now neutered and leaderless by this Zer0.
Democrats will tell the blue states that quality care is their right and they’ll tell red states that they need to ration their health care to control costs.
Peter Singer is Voldemort, “Will of Death.”
This is the logical progression in thought and policy for a country that has embraced a “culture of death”. Where does this ultimately lead to? Mandated euthanasia for individuals who are a drain on societies resources. Google “Whatever Happened to the Human Race” and watch it. The prophetic series put together by C. Everett Koop and Francis Shaeffer back in the 70’s. I watched it as a teen and said to myself, this will never happen in the USA. I was wrong.
What happens if the diagnosis is wrong?
I think that we should ration the State Run Media.
Peter Singer, the author of this article, is morally bankrupt, and has seemingly has been so for all his adult life.
He carries the moral autority of Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot.
People should read more of Pete Singer’s ethics discussions to respect why he is such a great advocate for Bambi’s eugenic thinking.
Like the one where he advocates killing disabled babies up to a month after they are born. Having sex with animals if it is considered consensual. Or saving a mouse instead of a family when a house burns down.
Why, exactly, did Madelyn Dunham (Obama’s grandmother) get hip replacement surgery given that she was suffering from heart disease, terminal cancer and possibly had had a stroke?
“I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost,” Mr. Obama said in the interview with David Leonhardt of The Times. “I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement, just because she’s my grandmother. Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill is a sustainable model is a very difficult question.”
He went on to say: “If somebody told me that my grandmother couldn’t have a hip replacement and she had to lie there in misery in the waning days of her life, that would be pretty upsetting.”
That’s the tragedy. The money was spent. The operation was performed. But it neither extended her life nor enhanced the quality of her life. She began to fail. In about two weeks, she was dead. She lived long enough to cast her absentee ballot. But not to long enough to see it counted.
Was it worth it, Barry?
I want the same healthcare that Michelle’s mom gets.
Just think if a Republican guernatorial candidate in TX, rather than a murderous leftist distinguished ethicist, had repeated this anti-feminist joke.
We could cut gov't costs by using a bullet for every three or four gov't workers. Does that make sense to this b0z0?
Could be. I get the impression that he really does not like muggles. :)
In all seriousness one of main roots of problems in the world is people who really hate their fellow humans. Sadly it is not confined to liberals.
At that point, or sooner - I hope, the red states will secede and leave the blue states to their Socialist fiasco.
Evil, pure evil, has set up shop at the white house.
Similar to his argument for abortion, Singer argues that newborns similarly lack the essential characteristics of personhood — "rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness"[28] — and therefore "killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living."
“You’re in the final throes of death. You’re a cancer on the ass of America. Your advertisement revenues have plummeted to an all-time low because of your far-left, communist editorial slant and your anti-American bias. Your owner is a pompous little pustule who is flushing your business down the porcelain potty but no one cares. Now imagine that you, the taxpayer, are going to bail out this little bourgeois cretin with your hard-earned dollars. Makes you think about killing yourself, doesn’t it? Welcome to Obama’s world!”
Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, the leading organisation for blind people in the United States, strongly criticised Singer's appointment to the Princeton Faculty in a banquet speech at the organization's national convention in July 2001, claiming that Singer's support for euthanizing disabled babies could lead to disabled older children and adults being valued less as well.
Looks like Mr. Maurer is a prophet.
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