{"id":60262,"date":"2016-09-01T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60262"},"modified":"2016-09-10T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:37:49","slug":"rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60262","title":{"rendered":"Rationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Doctors are like walleyes: everybody wants one but there aren\u2019t enough to go around, so we must ration them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Walleyes are rationed by license.\u00a0 Medical care traditionally has been rationed by price.\u00a0 But when the government pays, there is no price, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2016\/09\/04\/british-government-hospitals-to-ban-smokers-the-obese-from-surgery-due-to-budget-constraints\/#531900062b35\">so now Britain is rationing by morality<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">It should be obvious that obese people have more medical needs than fit people, and smokers more medical needs than non-smokers.\u00a0 The new rationing cannot be medically based on need; instead, it must be morally based on reward.\u00a0 The unspoken rational is that fat people and smokers are lazy and \u00a0stupid so they don\u2019t deserve medical care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Before you start nodding, consider that when Hillary is elected, she might change it to \u201cConservatives are stupid and don\u2019t deserve medical care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If we shift to a political basis for deciding who lives and who dies . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">Power is always a temptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Doctors are like walleyes: everybody wants one but there aren\u2019t enough to go around, so we must ration them. \u00a0Walleyes are rationed by license.\u00a0 Medical care traditionally has been rationed by price.\u00a0 But when the government pays, there is no price, so now Britain is rationing by morality. \u00a0It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60268,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60262\/revisions\/60268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}