Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Two Facts on Health Care

Any discussion about health care should begin by acknowledging two basic facts.

First, no matter what health care system we have, we are all going to die. At best, medical treatment can extend life, but only so long.

Second, no matter what health care system we have, there will be procedures to extend life that are possible, but not affordable. If an operation costs a billion dollars, you're not going to get it.

For most of human history, there was no health care. If you got sick, you either got better or you died.

Keep this in mind when you hear sob stories about people who died when they couldn't afford treatment.

1 comment:

Matt said...

Is this really the best argument you could formulate against "sob stories about people who died when they couldn't afford treatment." Everyone is going to die?

What other fun ideas can result from such non sequiturs:

“Why eat, I’ll only be hungry again later.”

"Why not let Osama bin Laden be President then, what do we have to lose? After all... death awaits."

"Why have children, they just die eventually?"

Even though euthanasia is NOT a proposal in the current bill, it sounds like the Western Right is in favor of the idea… After all…