Yes, but people 60 and above are people too. Those dying are often frail from other, already existing illnesses. But their socialized medicine 'decides' who is worthy to treat and who isn't. And the younger win that bet, because, after all - the old folks already spent most of their lives paying in to the system and now they need it, and it costs for them to need it. But the young folks have decades to pay in to it still. It's their money that matters, not what the old folks have already paid.
I get what you're saying and I agree, but if you look at these countries they were already doing this before Big Scary Megavirus came around. In a country with NHS-style healthcare, if a 91 year old lifelong smoker with COPD and emphysema gets diagnosed with lung cancer, they just let that dude die, regardless of whatever health panic is sweeping the world.
Medicare also does this in the US. My wife is a neurosurgical nurse practitioner, and they frequently get denials on elderly patients with complicating diagnoses because it's just not in Medicare's interest to pay that bill.
Never trust the government with your money; they aren't going to give it back when you need it.
Yes, but people 60 and above are people too. Those dying are often frail from other, already existing illnesses. But their socialized medicine 'decides' who is worthy to treat and who isn't. And the younger win that bet, because, after all - the old folks already spent most of their lives paying in to the system and now they need it, and it costs for them to need it. But the young folks have decades to pay in to it still. It's their money that matters, not what the old folks have already paid.
I get what you're saying and I agree, but if you look at these countries they were already doing this before Big Scary Megavirus came around. In a country with NHS-style healthcare, if a 91 year old lifelong smoker with COPD and emphysema gets diagnosed with lung cancer, they just let that dude die, regardless of whatever health panic is sweeping the world.
Medicare also does this in the US. My wife is a neurosurgical nurse practitioner, and they frequently get denials on elderly patients with complicating diagnoses because it's just not in Medicare's interest to pay that bill.
Never trust the government with your money; they aren't going to give it back when you need it.