Quote:Public Health Insurance should pay up to $_______ for a treatment that would extend a patient's life for one year.

At least one left wing, democrat, journalist thinks there should a price for life.

Quote:You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?

If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn’t going to be good. But suppose it’s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man — and everyone else like him — with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life? If there is any point at which you say, “No, an extra six months isn’t worth that much,” then you think that health care should be rationed.

We'll let's put a human spin on this instead of a democrat-nazi spin, what if extending your life by 6 months let you see your child graduate, or the birth of a child or grandchild don't you think the lives that are enriched by your presence at these events have value too?

Quote:Saving the life of one teenager is equivalent to saving the lives of ___ 85 year olds

One drug dealing drug addict gang banging teenager instead of ____ 85 year old parents, grandparents, great grandparents. Euthanizing everyone over 70 would make things even cheaper. Deny them Blood Pressure medicine, insulin, etc. those things cost money!!!

Quote:Health care is a scarce resource, and all scarce resources are rationed in one way or another. In the United States, most health care is privately financed, and so most rationing is by price: you get what you, or your employer, can afford to insure you for. But our current system of employer-financed health insurance exists only because the federal government encouraged it by making the premiums tax deductible. That is, in effect, a more than $200 billion government subsidy for health care. In the public sector, primarily Medicare, Medicaid and hospital emergency rooms, health care is rationed by long waits, high patient copayment requirements, low payments to doctors that discourage some from serving public patients and limits on payments to hospitals.

Scarce resource what a f***ing moron!!!! I haven't heard of large numbers of individuals dying in the US because they can't get healthcare. Funny thing reforming healthcare to "save" money cost more the leaving it alone.

Why We Must Ration Health Care