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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP "Triage" Health Care Plan Is About Deciding Who Deserves To Live And Who Will Die.
The GOP is deliberately about using "triage method" that doctors use at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. What that means is that the medical staff decides if a person is worth saving or not. So based on cost under the GOP plan you will be allowed to die if it costs too much to treat you. There will likely be a schedule of costs and if you fall outside of such a guideline then you will NOT be treated. The disease or injury will be allowed to run its course.
There will be a limit on the amount of money. A decision will be made based on your value to society. If you are high ranking you will get care regardless of cost. If you are not then tough luck.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,142 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The Republicans own it...and of course the freaking Concentration Camps (R) which they will contract out to Siberia in Russia.
lisa58
(5,756 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,725 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)We need to use the damned language on them.
Squinch
(51,105 posts)roamer65
(36,749 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,828 posts)True triage means treating the worst cases first, which is how you have to do it in emergency rooms, combat ORs, etc.
But the OP is probably right that Repub triage is based more on who can pay.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Yes your version is correct. Take care of the most serious and savable cases first. The cases extremely likely not saved are of course not treated. My version is a distortion of triage where the GOP does not want to treat serious and savable cases and even the less serious. They want to base their decision on cost. Yes you might need some really expensive treatment that will save your life. They want to deny you that treatment based on a cost schedule.
They would eliminate replacement surgery and life improvement surgery because it does not kill. They want to stop transplant surgery, aggressive cancer treatments, etc. They would base treatment on your VALUE to society. We know where the old go.
roamer65
(36,749 posts)You folks know what I am talking about and you know it will come.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)many a good man
(5,997 posts)It's a very simple mathematical equation.
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