What is the cost of a human life? What is the value?
What is the cost of a human life? What is the value?
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/20/481936195/baby-boomers-with-hemophilia-didnt-expect-to-grow-old
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/20/481936195/baby-boomers-with-hemophilia-didnt-expect-to-grow-old
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/20/481936195/baby-boomers-with-hemophilia-didnt-expect-to-grow-old
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/20/481936195/baby-boomers-with-hemophilia-didnt-expect-to-grow-old
In Norway, the cutoff is approximately $100 000 a year. You cost more than that (permanently), you're on your own. Or that's the official rule, but many doctors are less than loyal and fudge the books, at least if the patient is still lucid.
ReplyDeleteI mean, one of the challenges of these debates for me is how do you put a monetary value on one individual's contributions if they are kept alive? They work, they pay taxes, they do all these other tangible and intangible things. It's easier to put a price tag on the cost of their medical care/treatment.
ReplyDeleteOtoh, we are all moral and ethical about killing/letting people die. I mean, if they die young enough, it probably costs less over a potential lifetime than keeping them alive if their treatment costs $300K/yr. But we are super squeamish about people with severely disabling or eventually but not quickly fatal conditions having an option of saying they've had enough. Meanwhile, we are totally ok with them suffering for years, even decades, and maybe or maybe not paying for medical care.
We're a weird species.