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Donald103 Wrote: Oct 24, 2012 8:55 AM

They plan to get us coming and going. What a great slogan. "Get them coming and going." It is true that a lot of money is spent on the last six months of many lives with very little benefit to show for it. All old people are not demented and invalid. I will be 91 in February and can still kick higher than my head. Of course, I have been retired since age 75, so I am a "drawer" or a "taker" and not a producer or a maker, but I was an active doctor for fifty-one years (including internship, residency and two years service in the army).

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kparker812 Wrote: Oct 27, 2012 1:40 AM

Also important to remember is that not all terminally-ill people are elderly. My 6 year old is dying. Should he be killed off faster so as to be less of a "drain" to society's resources? Such a thought is disgusting.

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Rationing and Redefining Personhood

On October 10th, as part of Chicago's annual "Ideas Week," I participated in a debate on health care rationing hosted by "Intelligence Squared." My partner was Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute, and our opponents were Peter Singer, infamous Princeton professor of bioethics, and Dr. Art Kellermann of the RAND Corporation. Properly framed, the issue was whether the government should ration health care at the end of life. As actually framed, the proposition was: Ration end-of-life care. Our opponents argued government should ration such care, our side said no.

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