Comments on: "We must ration health care, but we should do it morally" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/we-must-ration-health-care-but-we.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: KipEsquirehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/we-must-ration-health-care-but-we.html#comment-77833 KipEsquire Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/we-must-ration-health-care-but-we-should-do-it-morally.html#comment-77833 This fact pattern is an outlier with a near-unanimous consensus among informed people (i.e., those who don't buy into Moore's nonsense). "Rationing morally" is not difficult here.<br/><br/>But how exactly are we (meaning of course not "us" but "politician and bureaucrats") supposed to "ration morally" when the questions become "cancer versus AIDS" or "diabetes versus Alzheimers" or "talk therapy versus pharmopsychiatry"? This fact pattern is an outlier with a near-unanimous consensus among informed people (i.e., those who don’t buy into Moore’s nonsense). “Rationing morally” is not difficult here.

But how exactly are we (meaning of course not “us” but “politician and bureaucrats”) supposed to “ration morally” when the questions become “cancer versus AIDS” or “diabetes versus Alzheimers” or “talk therapy versus pharmopsychiatry”?

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