Thread: Where has common sense gone?
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Old 09-25-2007, 04:10 PM   #75 (permalink)
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fixashun said:

CrazyFlamingo said:

How do you interpret "the plan might dump those who the plan doesn't deem worth treating"??

Say you smoked for 35 years of your life and you're 70 years old. Your doctor finds a "spot" on your lung that needs to be removed. It will cost 75,000 dollars for the surgery and Hillary's plan says "no". Is that not a form a euthanasia? What else would you call it?

To my reasoning, her plan says, "This person isn't worth saving. Even if he/she hadn't smoked, he/she is too old to waste that kind of money on. Sorry. Operation denied."
Others of a more capitalist bent might say "well, nobody told you to smoke, and nobody told you to not save up a good nest egg".Everybody hates socialized medicine until THEY need it.