Monday, August 10, 2009

READ THE NY POST STORY ON HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION

DEADLY DOCTORS
**ADVISERS WANT TO RATION CARE


Here's one snippet: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy. "He explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years" (Lancet, Jan. 31). "