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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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silvadel
Title: MMRPG Expert
Posts: 165
Registered: 2001-4-18 11:54:17
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1/1/00 12:00am
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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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Scenario...
70 year old is told that he is being denied expensive operation/drug Y that in their estimation would give them 5 years of life instead of 2 years of life... Thing is that estimation is because it is the only thing that actually had a chance of curing what they have and the treatment they will get will be only palliative....
Said old person goes on a shooting rampage against government officials -- or a relative of said old person....
leading to
Controls on old people who are told there is nothing the health care system will do for them because they are not worth the expense.
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Date Posted:
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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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...Perhaps.....?
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Date Posted:
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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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Medical death panels only exist in the minds of Americans.
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Hiakisha
Title: Newbcakes
Posts: 337
Registered: 2003-8-5 18:25:36
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i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
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Fozzie_Bear
Posts: 2,490
Registered: 2001-12-20 01:43:43
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old people are basically overhead anyway.
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deadcactus
Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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1/1/00 12:00am
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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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There are no death panels. There are intelligent, reasonable, and rational decisions to not waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on futile care for people with no quality of life or hope of recovery. We complain about our costs and outcomes when the real damage is done by pursuing maximally aggressive care in futile cases...
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Gaevren
Title: Wat do?
Posts: 1,181
Registered: 2004-9-15 09:29:36
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Hiakisha posted:
i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
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silvadel
Title: MMRPG Expert
Posts: 165
Registered: 2001-4-18 11:54:17
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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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Hiakisha posted:
i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
More like old person has nothing to lose and takes it out on those who said he wasnt worth keeping around for a few more years.
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When you squash every flavor of the month all you have in the end is vanilla...
Endgame all too often = End of the game being fun
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Anebriated
Title: I should be reading a book
Posts: 650
Registered: 2003-1-27 21:26:11
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silvadel posted:
Hiakisha posted:
i dont understand... old guy gets denied cure so he shoots up a place and then all old people get denied cures?
More like old person has nothing to lose and takes it out on those who said he wasnt worth keeping around for a few more years.
yeah, that sounds like what old people do.
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JD_HOGG
Posts: 2,846
Registered: 2008-3-18 08:04:21
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In countries with medical death panels -- does this happen....
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deadcactus posted:
There are no death panels. There are intelligent, reasonable, and rational decisions to not waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on futile care for people with no quality of life or hope of recovery. We complain about our costs and outcomes when the real damage is done by pursuing maximally aggressive care in futile cases...
LOL @ anyone who thinks that our government can accomplish this. Oh, and what you've described is a death panel.
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