The American Way of Life: Dying Early

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Just think how much faster American will die when Obamacare takes full effect.

[Karee 4,189]

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No cutoff age necessary, but we'd all be better off if your average retiree didn't live for 30 years after becoming social security and medicare eligible. If that average came down to 10 or 15, we'd all be better off.

Put another way, the U.S. would benefit from worse healthcare.

I'd love to see a politician run that up the flagpole.

[sly_wolf 199]

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No cutoff age necessary, but we'd all be better off if your average retiree didn't live for 30 years after becoming social security and medicare eligible. If that average came down to 10 or 15, we'd all be better off.

Put another way, the U.S. would benefit from worse healthcare.

Really!. A lot of americans think the Canadian healthcare model is bad. By that logic, why not adopt it since its worse.

[^_^ 5,021]

I'd love to see a politician run that up the flagpole.

You'd have to set a maximum age of voting first. I'm thinking 50.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I'd love to see a politician run that up the flagpole.

The cost of staying healthy is not the problem, it is the cost of dying. Cut back on all the heroism in the final months and years of a lost cause, and worry more about patient comfort, for an easy passing.

[Karee 4,189]

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You'd have to set a maximum age of voting first. I'm thinking 50.

Awesome!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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You'd have to set a maximum age of voting first. I'm thinking 50.

Thanks for taking my vote away!

[^_^ 5,021]

The cost of staying healthy is not the problem, it is the cost of dying. Cut back on all the heroism in the final months and years of a lost cause, and worry more about patient comfort, for an easy passing.

problem, of course, is knowing when it's time to move from heroic to palliative. do we trust the doctors when they tell us the time is now? or do we think they're just being whores for aetna?

Thanks for taking my vote away!

you don't need it anyway.

[Karee 4,189]

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problem, of course, is knowing when it's time to move from heroic to palliative. do we trust the doctors when they tell us the time is now? or do we think they're just being whores for aetna?

you don't need it anyway.

Probably will need to take away their internet access as well.

[^_^ 5,021]

Probably will need to take away their internet access as well.

Or give them their own Internet. Like AOL. They can play amongst themselves as they wait to die.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Probably will need to take away their internet access as well.

My surgeon told me that one time, when my diagnosis turned out to be more accurate than his was.

Edited January 10, 2013 by The Patriot

[Karee 4,189]

My surgeon told me that one time, when my diagnosis turned out to be more accurate than his was.

Thanks for making my point.

[^_^ 5,021]

Holy chit they had chocolate chip pancakes in the cafeteria this morning and I missed it!

[Penny Lane 8,159]

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Holy chit they had chocolate chip pancakes in the cafeteria this morning and I missed it!

I want pancakes There's no cafeteria at my work. And they removed the vending machines!

[^_^ 5,021]

I want pancakes There's no cafeteria at my work. And they removed the vending machines!

That sounds like an awful place to work

The cafeteria here is now open for lunch!

Edited January 10, 2013 by ^_^