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**User-Luser** · 09-23-2009, 02:49 PM

(a) There is no plan to withhold life-sustaining treatment. Rumors to the contrary are just right-wing fear mongering.

(b) Life-sustaining treatment is being withheld now, either because the patient is too poor to pay for the treatment, or because the insurance company is to evil to pay for it.

Of course there will be rationing under the public option, just as there is now. Its simply a question of what group the rationing mostly effects. Ezekiel Emanuel has clearly stated his belief in rationing based on age and he has the Presidents ear. Every social medical sytem that I have encountered (Britain, Canada, and Sweden) has rationing, and necessarily so. Resources are limited, we cannot provide all things to everyone. My main beef with Emanuels version is the weighting of importance based on age since it's too simplistic. For example, given limited resources wouldnt we rather save an elderly Albert Einstein than some 20 year old crackhead.

09-23-2009, 02:49 PM	#15
User-Luser Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 430 Senior Member	(a) There is no plan to withhold life-sustaining treatment. Rumors to the contrary are just right-wing fear mongering. (b) Life-sustaining treatment is being withheld now, either because the patient is too poor to pay for the treatment, or because the insurance company is to evil to pay for it. Of course there will be rationing under the public option, just as there is now. Its simply a question of what group the rationing mostly effects. Ezekiel Emanuel has clearly stated his belief in rationing based on age and he has the Presidents ear. Every social medical sytem that I have encountered (Britain, Canada, and Sweden) has rationing, and necessarily so. Resources are limited, we cannot provide all things to everyone. My main beef with Emanuels version is the weighting of importance based on age since it's too simplistic. For example, given limited resources wouldnt we rather save an elderly Albert Einstein than some 20 year old crackhead.
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