The G-d Committee

[shkrobius]

Recently, I've come across several discussions of medical ethics taking this post

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Rationing health care

[piterburg]

What's the big deal about it? It is a limited resource and therefore always going to be rationed - either by the market or by the government. For those of us with private insurance plans it is already being rationed by insurance companies, so let's stop screaming about "death panels".

Re: Rationing health care

[shkrobius]

I'll try to explain, but you better ask m_p, as she bitterly complains that I am distorting her views. She believes that such G-d committees are unacceptable (she does not explain precisely why, prefering name calling); the only ethical path is the state, because it is the closest emulation of G-d, being equipartial to everyone, even if only in theory. The involvement of the government is a way to resolve the dilemma of deciding who lives and who dies in the ethical way. This is the first part of the idea. The second part of the idea is that the government can also eliminate the choice entirely by distributing costs. Everyone who has a chance to be helped gets a chance to be helped regardless of the costs. Her narrative is wrapped about this idea. The particulars are changed to present a certain scenario: the Ungodly committees, the proliferation of inhumanity, the messianic journalist revealing the truth to innocent public, the outcry, and the victory of humanity: the Congress that terminates this abomination. She lifted it up in

Re: Rationing health care

[e2pii1]

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m_p's post ... It is amazing what arguments people would concoct to justify the sacred right of federal bureaucracy to make life-and-death decisions in the name of the greater public good. The claim is that the only way to avoid medical rationing or to do it the "right way" is to leave it all to the feds, in the most centralized way possible.
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Вероятно, вот объяснение:
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http://vlad-ab.livejournal.com/323180.html?thread=1857388#t1857388
m_p:
Я работаю между Капитолием и Белым Домом
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Кстати и ее ближайший единомышленник scholar_vit работает на государство

Re: Rationing health care

[shkrobius]

So am I. This is no excuse for confabulation.