No, of course not... I was looking at the financial side of health care (not Obama care). It would be a great thing if the elderly sacrificed a bit to help the rest of society.
ObamaCare is a joke! I am not in any way supporting socialist medicine but am pointing to a fact - elderly require more care... If they gave up a bit of this money to support others, it would help enormously since they consume about 40% of the costs.
I and probably many others would be happy to forgo many expenses if it would help overall medical care for all...
I was looking at the financial side of health care (not Obama care). ObamaCare is a joke! I am not in any way supporting socialist medicine but am pointing to a fact - elderly require more care. If they gave up a bit of this money to support others, it would help enormously since they consume about 40% of the costs.
Sir, let's get our terminology straight. You are talking about medical rationing. It doesn't matter whether you call it Obamacare, Hillarycare or Rockefellercare. Medical rationing is medical rationing.
You are saying that we spend too much money on health care for the elderly (and, by implication, on health care for the disabled and the gravely ill at any age).
You are saying that it would be more fair to give that money to the young and fit.
One problem with your argument is that the young and fit don't need the money -- at least not for health care. They hardly need any medical care at all.
According to a 2006 study by the Department of Health and Human Services, five percent of the U.S. population accounts for nearly 50 percent of health care spending in America. Who are those five percent? Most are people over 65 years of age with serious, chronic illnesses.
By contrast, the study notes, half of the U.S. population “spends little or nothing on health care… with annual medical spending below $664 per person.” These, of course, are mostly healthy young people – people without serious, chronic illnesses.
Obviously, those healthy young people who spend less than $664 per person per year on health care do not need to kill off Grandma and Grandpa in order to insure that they get enough health care dollars for themselves. They already have enough.
So what exactly are you selling? Why are you so eager to convince us that Grandma and Grandpa need to die?