Making treatment decisions for the 'temporarily alive'

Mark Steyn: And So It Begins . . .

The administration's plan to control health-care costs:

President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.

But don't worry. A "panel of experts" (Barney Frank and two executive vice-presidents from ACORN) will make that determination.

So relax: You'll be able to "opt out" of government health care, in a very permanent sense . . .

So apparently Obama has again referred to his grandmother's dilemma when she broke her hip after her cancer diagnosis. He's used her as an example before. I don't think this is a great example. Condemning one's gramma to months of pain and immobility with a broken hip, ending only with death, isn't what most people would choose for their loved ones, no matter how temporarily alive they may be. That's Obama's phrase, but used in relation to babies, not grannies, though the principle applies here just as well.

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