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Fact-based, ugly, yucky question?
With this plan to use a cost versus benefit formula to determine who is worthy of health care; will they factor in sexual orientation? Statistically a homosexual's life expectancy is far below the average, so will government appointees cut costs by limiting the treatments offered to homosexuals?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Good question, considering the cost of drugs used to treat HIV and the research on Hep C. I can see a benefits board determining that the cost of such drugs are prohibitive in comparison to the value of the life being saved. They might adopt an age limit. Under 40 and you can be treated over that you will cost too much over your remaining life expectancy. Of course gay rights organizations are major democratic contributors so they may actually get preferential treatment.
- mommanukeLv 71 decade ago
Fact-based? You mean you added "to determine who is worthy of health care" and it's still a fact? The cost versus benefit formula is to determine where the money can best be spent to treat a person, not whether or not to treat a person. Even your Republican Congresspeople are telling Sarah Palin to stop making stuff up. Fact + Lie does not equal Fact.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Well, yes and no. The legislation opens the door to all sorts of litigation to determine who is and who is not 'Worth saving'. In the end, every special interest group from illegal aliens to gay rights and animal activists will have special dispensations. The only people left out will be us every day people paying for the health care.
