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I'm aware of that kind of thinking, which is why I'm glad you aren't running the medical system. Consider who you're talking about when you say, "The cost of r
by paul 13y ago
I'm aware of that kind of thinking, which is why I'm glad you aren't running the medical system.
Consider who you're talking about when you say, "The cost of replacing the thing".
- raintrees 13y agoIf several dollars a day will keep people in certain parts of the world alive, doesn't the question become how many must die to save this one life? http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-sta... I am hopeful that this is not a zero-sum game... And for the record, I think this is the wrong battle, health care is entirely too expensive in the first place.
- rwissmann 13y agoNo it doesn't - these are not mutually exclusive choice. How are expenses for US health care and aid to foreign countries related? You could just as well budget the money for the latter against the expense for a coffee, an aircraft carrier or Armstrong's salary. I totally agree that health care is too expensive at the moment.
- shasta 13y agoI agree with your parent and thus don't want you in charge of "running the medical system," either. But we don't have to have one or the other. You buy your insurance policy that covers whatever it takes to save your fetus and I'll buy my policy that doesn't (and spend the difference on improving the lives of my healthy children).
- spacehome 13y agoThis is pretty obviously preferable to the situation we have in health care today in the U.S., where you're (more or less) forced to get employment and health insurance from the same company.
- smtddr 13y agoCruelty#2... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7204184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7204184 This kind of attitude is why articles like this get written: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303661404579175712015473766 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230366140...
- shasta 13y agoFailure to think critically about how to value life results in harmful abortion and euthanasia laws and is contributing to the high cost/benefit ratios of our healthcare system. We have quite enough people thinking only emotionally about these issues.