re: Bill Gates says death panels will soon be needed and the money saved should go to teachers

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100% agree with him. The reason health insurance is so high is because 90 year olds with cancer that can barely make coherrent sentences get a $700,000 operation to keep them alive for 2 more months.

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That and the fact that insurance executive make 25-100 million dollar bonuses every year.

I agree with the premise that we spend too much on the first few months and the last few months of life - but I don’t want to walk the slippery slope of that decision BEFORE removing the greed and fraud embedded in the business of healthcare. (Not the fault of the patients or the health care providers).

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quote: Billions and billions are wasted in the final months on people with 0 quality of life This is such a stupid repeated belief

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Not really. It happens daily. Say a 90+ year old with a giant head bleed. They will get aggressively treated for a week before he family decides to pull the plug.

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not all, but MOST teachers are the reason why young adults under the age of 30 these days absolutely hate America. they indoctrinated them with false propaganda.

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You’re the right wing equivalent of a tranny putting on a kids show at the library.

The extreme on both sides + social media = this country is fricked.

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I wish Bill Gates would lose every penny and become a poor person

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he's literally trying to give it all away

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But you know damn good and well the cost part of the equation will be fought over. When there’s an incentive to save or make money, morals gets pushed.

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Absolutely. Suicide is wrong in all forms, as is killing. Any part of this is an abomination and an abuse of life, and skewing our morals for money will lead us down a path of further diminishing our society

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Watch that fricker spend millions on himself when he gets some rare cancer then what will his thought process be.

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Let’s be fair, Bill Gates can afford it

For most, like me, there won’t be a positive return for keeping them alive longer if they can’t afford it. Should we strive to keep alive people who were just average, let alone drains on society?

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. But that should largely fall on the family to realize the patient is that sick and swap over to hospice.

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My mother had in home hospice. She took over a month to finally pass. The last 1 1/2 weeks were the hardest. She withered away into nothing. Hospice is a good thing in the fact that it eliminates life saving measures. But damn is it hard to sit and watch.

We put down our dogs and animals saying we don't want to see them suffer. The biggest problem is when is it murder and when is it just in regards to people? If the world was full of decent people, then uncle joe can just give them a few extra pain pills and they slip off comfortably. But instead what we'll have is a mom killing her kids and trying to pass it off as relieving them of their pain.

Wasn't it Sarah Palin that got drugged through the mud over warning people about this?

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I’ve seen literal corpses with Alzheimer’s kept going.

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That's only because he's the President.

I remember the old days when God decided when a human life would end.