demodonkey
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Sun Nov-23-08 12:31 PM
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| 11. My uncle received a heart operation at 86 and is now back to volunteering 5 days a week... |
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Edited on Sun Nov-23-08 12:31 PM by demodonkey
...guess it would have been more "cost effective" to let him die because he is old, huh?
NO ONE should deny care to anyone who wants to live and try to get better. Do that and we are nothing more than a nation of total barbarians.
We can pay 700 billion to further enrich Wall Street CEOs but we can't pay anything for some 90 year-old who doesn't want to die yet, because the "effort" is "herculean"? We can pay a billion every day and an half or so (whatever it is now) in Iraq but we can't provide long term care for the disabled and elderly who need it without taking all their income and everything they worked for all their life??
We just need to take care of this. Pay for it. Seems that we have money for everything else.
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