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I mean you called to just let 80 year olds die. If they can't care for themselves, can't move around, and are left in constant pain, they end up just dieing.

Then you gave the wisdom 'older people use more medical care than younger people'. Like yeah, that is how life/the universe works. My old car requires more maintenance then when it was new. But funny thing about young people, they too will one day be the old person.

No, I said palliative care. That's to ease suffering. So you're telling me we should forego cancer treatments for young cancer patients so 80-year-olds can get hip replacements? Is that what you think? Are you crazy? I never said just let people die. That's insane. It's about cost. In America, they don't just give healthcare for free, like wherever you probably live. I wish they did.

You may not have realized it but leaving an 80 year old bedridden and unable to care for themselves is a death sentence. Any doctor sending an 80 year old home with a shattered hip and not a replacement knows that.

I live in red state America, like one of the super red states. The American healthcare system decided it didn't make sense financially for our small community to have ambulance coverage. You know what we in red state America did? We taxed ourselves and have much better ambulance coverage/care then we ever had before.

How we deal with healthcare is a choice.

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