Or what about a 91 year old gay caucasian with severe acne who needs a $750,000 heart replacement but has no insurance? -gruff
lol -sorry to say gruff, but I think he's toast. Now, make him 19 with a flawless complexion and I'd say Barney Frank would be first in line to have uncle Sam pick up the tab. Fran's points are well made and it is up to Congress to come up with a compromise. I'm interested to see what Obama has to say and if tort reform will come up in his address. I'm roughly half through your article and haven't seen any mention of tort reform yet unless I missed it. Reader's Digest version next time? Dr. Emanuels plan seems to focus on helping those with the most to give to society. I think a free market system would do this, if not perfectly. As Fran so aptly puts it; "My general experience is that people (and this applies to individuals and societies equally) generally find ways to afford the things that are most important to them." I couldn't agree more. In your opening statement in your article, you mention perhaps now is the time to divorce health care from it's connection with employment. This is a very, very good idea in my opinion. Make people shop for their own insurance to fit their own needs. Let the free market work. As much as it can work. dj On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:12 PM, gruff<[email protected]> wrote: > > How about me, Don? I'm all for living as long as I can but for > certain exceptions such as my vegetablization or lack of any > functional cognition and unable to pull the plug myself. > > However, Emanuel raises some valid points. There are such decisions > as he describes which must be made and by what value system do we make > them? > > Example: A 35 year old black female obstetrician needs a kidney > transplant to live. So does the 88 year old hispanic male CEO. Both > needs occurred simultaneously and there is only one kidney available > in the time constraints imposed by the situation. Who gets the kidney > and why? You have to tell the one who is going to die your > reasoning. > > Or what about a 91 year old gay caucasian with severe acne who needs a > $750,000 heart replacement but has no insurance? > > There are always such choices and worse to be made in medicine. > Sometimes a doctor chooses wrong but it's not deliberate. It's just > the way things are. > > On Sep 3, 11:38 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is a very interesting article. I'm not suggesting we'll end up >> with something like this but it certainly makes for chilling reading. >> One major problem with current doctors(according to Dr. Emanuel) is >> the Hippocratic Oath. It's all very coldly logical and would be very >> effective in reducing costs I believe. If I got to keep the >> sweetheart health care our law makers get I'd probably vote for it >> myself. >> >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020370660457437446328009... >> >> How 'bout you? >> >> dj > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
