Health Care Vs. The Value Of Human Life

[FirefightnRick]

Check out the left's formulas to calculate your life's value.

Under the Democrats’ proposed health care reform legislation, we know that the government will have to determine some sort of rationing system in order to control costs. We are aware that part of the rationing will be absorbed in the discrimination that the bill inflicts upon the elderly; we know that it cuts $500 billion from Medicare. What has remained puzzling is how exactly this rationing will be determined for the rest of us. Similarly elusive is how the new Health Benefits Advisory Committee will decide whether or not you get certain medical treatments, regardless of the opinion of your doctor. After all, how do you put a dollar value on a human life?

If you think there is no answer to that question, you are way behind the progressives. In fact, most countries with socialized medicine, including Britain, are already using a mathematical formula that expresses the numerical value of one year of a human life in a measurement called the QALY, or “quality-adjusted life year.” In terms of determining medical care, the mathematical formula of the QALY is based on both how much a treatment may lengthen your lifespan and the quality of the life you will be living.......

.....Health Advisor to the President, Ezekiel Emanuel.....says of his system: “When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”

WTF?

Rick

Edited December 9, 2009 by FirefightnRick

[Censored by Laurie]

Pajama Media?

Edward R. Murrow is rolling over in his grave.

[UNTLifer]

If you are unborn, you get 0% chance.

[yyz28]

...see, if Ezekiel Emanuel hadn't made the statement they did, they could dismiss this stuff as "internet scare tactics" like they do everything else that is dug our of the ACTUAL bill (which is changing by the minute, as to keep everyone confused...).

...but with Emanuel's statement, this one is pretty damning.

[Censored by Laurie]

the ACTUAL bill (which is changing by the minute)

Hmm...