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Then we probably need to come to terms with losing our loved ones, because this is intractable. I'd rather have "death panels" than the current situation.


I agree. I just hope we can have panels which weigh diseases impartially. The UK did this for a while via their National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, measuring the cost per QALY, but now the politicians have stepped in and decided that cancer treatments are "special" and should be funded up to a higher limit -- which is really saying that they're willing to kill two people who don't have cancer to save the life of one person who has cancer.




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