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Originally posted by Not Bob
Do we really want the government or insurance companies to get (further) into this sort of analysis? Brave New World, indeed.
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Well, that's the danger. But we live in a world of finite resources. I've heard too many doctor-war-stories about patients who miss one appointment after another, or who let an obvious problem fester, and then rush into the emergency room demanding immediate, urgent, and very expensive care.
Would you spent taxpayer dollars keeping a 25-yo man on life support, with no help of recovery, when he suffered a head injury in a motorcycle accident that would've been avoided if he'd worn a legally required helmet? I'm not sure I would -- though, like you, I'm also not sure I like governments or insurance carriers making that decision.
(Note: Answering "I'd choose to pull the plug, but only because I'd like to watch the leaders of the Republichrist party go berserk trying to stop it" would constitute fighting the hypo.)
