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> On Sep 24, 2014, at 17:09, Perelman, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Not till the first.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eugene Coyle
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:55 PM
> To: Pen-l Pen-L
> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] ice floe bioethics - no health care after 75
> 
> Happy birthday Michael!
> 
> Gene
> 
>> On Sep 24, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Perelman, Michael <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Tom I will be 75 in a week.  Although I rarely get medical care, I 
>> might have some need in the future.
>> 
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gar Lipow
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 4:36 PM
>> To: Progressive Economics
>> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] ice floe bioethics - no health care after 75
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> To be fair, the author says, "I am not advocating 75 as the official 
>> statistic of a complete, good life in order to save resources, ration health 
>> care, or address public-policy issues arising from the increases in life 
>> expectancy." As long as he's only talking about his own healthcare choices 
>> and not advocating a policy, I don't see the problem.
>> 
>> The two policy implications he does outline also seem rather benign -- not 
>> basing evaluation of health care quality on longevity and focusing 
>> biomedical research spending on quality of life rather than radical 
>> interventions for prolongation of life. Given the choice of living 10 more 
>> years without Alzheimer's or living 15 with Alzheimers, I know which one I 
>> would chose.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> He is not just saying it is something he is personally choosing. He is 
>> saying others who don't make the same choice are making a bad decision for 
>> themelves and for society. He doesn't need to draw malignant policy 
>> conclusion. Once the premises are established, he can leave other other to 
>> advocate the obvious. This is not a slippery slope. It is a goddamn ice 
>> cliff. 
>> 
>> BTW he is overlooking some important medical studies. For example one study 
>> showed that healthy people dies faster than the unhealthy. Not sooner. But 
>> they go from pretty good to dead in a shorter interval, wearing out more 
>> like the wonderful one horse shay, and less like a car getting less and less 
>> reliable. That is a huge argument against his points on antibiotic use and 
>> preventative care. This is not a "slippery slope". This is a goddamn ice 
>> cliff.
>> 
>> And yeah there are circumstances when I would not want radical intervention 
>> myself. But he is framing it as a duty to self and society, with a nice 
>> simple age cuttoff.  
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> This proposal to cut off all but palliative healthcare for people over 75 
>> may be trial balloon, rather than just journalistic trolling. David Roberts 
>> said in his facebook page that he agrees with every word. Ezra Klein tweeted 
>> the link without comment.  With Social Security cuts off the table, at least 
>> until 2015,  instead of forcing old people to live on cat food, I guess the 
>> "Church of the Savvy" now wants to see if it can turn old people into cat 
>> food instead. 
>> 
>> My mom is 92, and she recently managed to lacerate her shin. The laceration 
>> became infected and is now being treated with antibiiotics. One of the 
>> things this article advocates is no antibiotics for people over 75.  
>> 
>> Ice floe bioethics.  We are better off dead after 75, so denying us medical 
>> care from then is for our own good. The fact that it would fatten the 
>> profits of the masters of the universe is merely a happy co-benefit that it 
>> would be in very bad taste to discuss.  
>> 
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-
>> at-75/379329/
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