WASHINGTON – Medicare officials said Wednesday that the program will pay the $93,000 cost of prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that typically gives men suffering from an incurable stage of the disease an extra four months to live.
How about not spending a hundred grand on terminal illnesses and instead spend it on lowering the age of Medicare eligibility to say.. 50?
When the Loon Brigade talks about "death panels", that's what they're referring to. Even asking the question of whether or not that makes sense launches them into a frenzy.
It's a difficult moral dilemma. Four months is worth a lot to somebody who is going to die. I guess that's why a person should save up some cash in case they need something like that at some point. Sell a house.. or possessions.. whatever. You're not taking it with you.
Seems to me the government should have a death panel, if the cost savings can be used to treat people with a more positive prognosis that otherwise would go without.
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