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Originally Posted by dirtyp
If you want to allow the government to decide whats best for your health care needs, then i think you get everything you deserve.
Unfortunately these poor people didnt have a choice.
I guess forcing people to commit suicide is ONE way of dealing with a broke-ass healthcare system.
Retired dentist and wife 'take lives in suicide pact as they faced being moved into separate care homes'
By LUKE SALKELD -
In almost 60 years of marriage Tom and Nancie Hughes had rarely been apart.
The joys and triumph of socialized healthcare for the peasant masses. |
Well, the problem isn't limited to just the elderly:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/ny...14nursing.html
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For the Disabled, Age 18 Brings Difficult Choices
By MARC SANTORA
Published: May 14, 2008
Outside Sam Stabiner’s room pumps the steady drone of ventilators, giving life to his neighbors breath by breath. Most are in their 80s and 90s, in the twilight of their years.
But Mr. Stabiner’s parents never imagined they would have to visit him in a place like this. On the eve of his 21st birthday, he is living in a Manhattan nursing home.
The Stabiners’ predicament, however, is far from unique. As medical advances have allowed patients who might have died as children to survive into adulthood, the patients are falling into a void in a health care system that has yet to develop institutions for the young and “medically fragile.”
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Of course, if it weren't for socialized medicine, I doubt Stabiners would be alive - his parents wouldn't have been able to afford good medical help and their kid would have died from complications.
And I assume that the Ron Paul supporters want the old, sick, and fragile to die as the capitalists kick them to the curb when such people deplete their capital. A year or two in a nursing home results in almost everyone depleting all their capital - I doubt more than 5% of people have any capital left after two years in a nursing home. And most States and the Feds have "reach back" laws that prevent giving assets away even a couple of years before going into a nursing home.
But I would like to see the people who blame "socialism" for the social problems people face, because they don't have the financial means to solve the problems as they wish.
And if you say "individusals must take responsibility for yourself, then the couple commiting suicide was exactly a case of taking individual responsibility for their marriage vows. He took her and cared for her in sickness and health, for richer and poorer, until death did them part.