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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
I have no idea what is already happening as I only read the bold text.
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you can look at any socialized system around the world, they're all struggling and unsustainable.....and implementing rationing of one kind or another, it's inevitable...if " 77% of Medicare costs are for recipients in their last year of life"...I think Obama said 80%.... and you need to begin rationing, where do you think those savings are going to come from? "a panel will choose if my grandfather with cancer will be able to get treatment or not? " yes...exactly...and if you are fat or smoke or have some other afflction that would make you less worthy of treatment, what do you do then...
in Oregon you can be refused cancer treatment but offered assisted suicide and the cheaper option...that's not a fabrication...
reported on September 19, 2008:
In an interview, Baroness Mary Helen Warnock has said that people suffering dementia have a duty to commit suicide.
Baroness Warnock, called the "philosopher queen", is regarded as Britain's leading moral philosopher. She said that she hopes people will soon be "licensed to put others down" who have become a burden on the health care system.
She told the Church of Scotland's Life and Work magazine, "If you're demented, you're wasting people's lives - your family's lives - and you're wasting the resources of the National Health Service."
In another article for a Norwegian periodical, titled "A Duty to Die?" she suggests, "There's nothing wrong with feeling you ought to do so [commit suicide] for the sake of others as well as yourself."
"In other contexts, sacrificing oneself for one's family would be considered good. I don't see what is so horrible about the motive of not wanting to be an increasing nuisance."
Baroness Warnock's comments come as prominent voices in Britain's House of Lords continue to advocate for legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide.