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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 579944" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>My grandfather is in his late 80s, and during this 9th decade of this life he has had a hip and knee replaced, had surgery to remove cancer, and received radiation therapy to keep the cancer away and is still with us today. In countries like Canada and England he would have had to wait years for a hip and or knee replacement, and the cancer surgery would have never happened because he would have passed away before he would have made it to the front of the waiting line for the surgery. This is assuming he would have been allowed in the waiting line to begin with. When something is perceived as "free"(when its not) people consume more. When you throw more people into a healthcare system without increasing the number of doctors you will get healthcare rationing. No nation with socialized medicine has been able to get away from it. Unfortunately the ones who receive most of the healthcare cuts that go with healthcare rationing will be those who believed too close to the end of their life to benefit much from the healthcare available. <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12857" target="_blank">A good example is the state of Oregon which refused to pay for life extending drugs for a cancer patient, but would pay for euthanasia</a> <--click for story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 579944, member: 249"] My grandfather is in his late 80s, and during this 9th decade of this life he has had a hip and knee replaced, had surgery to remove cancer, and received radiation therapy to keep the cancer away and is still with us today. In countries like Canada and England he would have had to wait years for a hip and or knee replacement, and the cancer surgery would have never happened because he would have passed away before he would have made it to the front of the waiting line for the surgery. This is assuming he would have been allowed in the waiting line to begin with. When something is perceived as "free"(when its not) people consume more. When you throw more people into a healthcare system without increasing the number of doctors you will get healthcare rationing. No nation with socialized medicine has been able to get away from it. Unfortunately the ones who receive most of the healthcare cuts that go with healthcare rationing will be those who believed too close to the end of their life to benefit much from the healthcare available. [url=http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12857]A good example is the state of Oregon which refused to pay for life extending drugs for a cancer patient, but would pay for euthanasia[/url] <--click for story. [/QUOTE]
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