Joanna
Jon Johanning wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2004, at 3:41 AM, joanna bujes wrote:
>
>> What they are asserting is that if medicine were socialized, some
>> mornings, I would opt for the triple bypass.
>>
>> Oh,....my, that does feel good.
>
>
> What would you do if you were in the position of Clinton? -Without the
> bypass, you would likely soon have a fatal heart attack. Would you opt
> for the operation or an early death? Personally, I would opt for the
> former -- if it were available to me.
>
> Of course, you can argue that Clinton got himself into his own fix by
> gorging on fast food, presumably because he was brainwashed by the
> capitalist food industry. But it is just as likely that his family
> genetic history of heart disease was the cause, or at least gave him a
> body that was especially vulnerable to Big Macs. All of the gee-whiz,
> very expensive therapies becoming available, and which in fact do keep
> people from dying early deaths or leading needlesslly incapacitated
> lives, do indeed need to be rationed somehow, but they should be
> rationed in such a way that gives any person, even the poorest, as
> much of a chance at them as an ex-President.
>
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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