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No, I said palliative care. That's to ease suffering. So you're telling me we should forego cancer treatments for young cancer patients so 80-year-olds can get hip replacements? Is that what you think? Are you crazy? I never said just let people die. That's insane. It's about cost. In America, they don't just give healthcare for free, like wherever you probably live. I wish they did.


You may not have realized it but leaving an 80 year old bedridden and unable to care for themselves is a death sentence. Any doctor sending an 80 year old home with a shattered hip and not a replacement knows that.

I live in red state America, like one of the super red states. The American healthcare system decided it didn't make sense financially for our small community to have ambulance coverage. You know what we in red state America did? We taxed ourselves and have much better ambulance coverage/care then we ever had before.

How we deal with healthcare is a choice.




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