Who was it that said there would be death panels? I'm sure someone was on the leading edge of this one...
This problem is not new. We have finite resources and no matter how hard you try, you can’t get around that fact. NO ONE should be able to force someone else to foot the bill for their health care forever. SOMEBODY has to make hard choices. Everyone bitches and wrings their hands at “death panels” but the reality is that there are some people who WILL NOT make the hard choice to let mama or grandma or grandpa die and will instead insist that everything that can be done MUST be done. But of course, it’s not their money they are spending.
My wife had to make one when her mother got very sick. She could have done a few more things that would have extended her life by perhaps a few weeks, but she chose to allow her mother to pass away quietly instead. So is my wife a cruel, heartless person?