ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[David Horn]

(09-01-2017, 09:53 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(08-31-2017, 11:01 AM)David Horn Wrote: The WHO lists it [the NHS] as far preferable to our disastrous system, and among the world's best.

The WHO scale considers a system where everyone dies at 50 to be superior to one where you have a 50% chance of dying at 50 and a 50% chance of living to 70.  I'll take the system that gives me a chance of living longer, thanks.

But hey, now that you bring it up, I guess the Liverpool Pathway made sense from the WHO standpoint:  deny food and water to people past a certain age, and it reduces inegality.

On overall health, the UK is ranked 24 -- not great, but the US is ranked 72.  Of course, we're #1 on per capita expenditures.  And the Liverpool Protocol was an attempt at standardized care for the terminally ill in their final hours.  It's been eliminated from the system as too rigid.  Of course, the do-nothing approach is wonderful, letting the family of brain-dead people force continued care with no chance of recovery, virtually forever.