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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I agree with him. Why waste resources on someone who is far past their useful stages of life? Just accept that cancer will kill you at that age and go to God.

Even if you're 85, socialized healthcare shouldn't provide cancer care. 75 even. People need to accept that old people die.

[–] • 1 pt

Waste resources on someone who is far past their useful stages of life

Someone who is far past their useful stages of life is actually entering the prime of their most profitable stage of life. Keep them alive at any cost and prescribe them a dozen different heart/cancer medications, that is how you get a recurring revenue stream. And they're all covered by Medicare, so it really doesn't matter what you charge for your services, some tax paying moron is gonna foot the bill regardless.

[–] • 1 pt

If people want socialized healthcare it's something they halve to accept.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I'd go along with age 85. Most people at 75 are still productive, unless they're invalids.

[–] • 2 pts

Some 30 year olds are totally unproductive though, so it varies.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

We're at the height of egotistical self-importance.

[–] • 1 pt

Some animals are more importanter than others.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Hate to say, and a potential 95 year old me might disagree (or not, 95 ffs), but we should not be trying to keep the decrepit alive just because it's mean to let them die.

Minimize their suffering, of course. Instead of cancer treatment, just apply lots of morphine. Again.. 95, for fuck's sake.

[–] • 1 pt

He's pretty elderly. Let's start with him!

[–] • 1 pt

This is a problem with government directed healthcare. If we keep on the path of socialized medicine he is 100% correct. If we get off that road, switch to 100% private pay and take a hard look at reducing costs, this problem might have a better solution.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Costs are high because uninsured people still get treatment, and covered people end up paying for them.

[–] • 0 pt

And it's the government which mandates care for the indigent.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Well I don't think doctors are going to turn away patients. And that isn't going to change. Some people have worked, paid taxes, and find themselves unemployed and uninsured. It happens.