When Health rationing begins, who will get to vote on who lives and who dies?

Question

When taxes go up, revenue goes down. When there is not enough money to FULLY fund the government health care taxes were raise for there will have to be rationing. Who gets to live and who gets to die and who decides, or do we just raise taxes again?

MITCHELL no need to predict, it's already happening in California.

OUTCROP: My sister works for a firm that does analyisis of legitimate health care needs. She's an MD.

MICHINOKU: Are you under the impression that there will be unlimited health care in a government run program?

LUNATIC: I appreciate that you don't like HMO's. Niether do I. What you fail to realize is that a US government run health care program will be the biggest baddest HMO on the planet.

SARA: The number one killer of Americans is Obesity. It's preventable and the vicitims are usually killed by heart attacks with no other symptoms and are dead long before they get into the Health Care System. The number one Killer of young people in America is car accidents. Also dead before getting into the system. As a matter of fact, the health care system isn't even on the list of major causes for death. Calm down.

Answer 1

There will be no votes. The government (the same government that most that want universal health care do nothing but whine about) will be deciding who lives and who dies.

Oh, and yes, there will be tax hikes again. The liberals won't be happy until we are at around a 60% tax rate like France.

Answer 2

Begins?

It already exists!

What do you think your HMO is doing when they decide which operations they will pay for and which they won't?

Boy, the medical insurance industry is doing a great job selling the idea that government sponsored health care is evil.

If they were half as good at reducing their profits (and therefore costs) as they are beating the socialized medicine boogieman drum, there wouldn't be a need for "socialized medicine".

Answer 3

People better hope it is not our Government.
When the number one killer in a society is the healthcare system,then,that system has no excuse, except to address its own urgent shortcomings.
It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States.
http://www.altheal.org/statistics/garynull.htm
The killing of thousands hidden under religious tolerance, in the USA, some call it experiments and others drug research . I call it what it is murder, with out a court.

Answer 4

Rich people will get to choose. They already get to choose in most cases. Money talks--it's a sad fact, but it is a fact. So when health care gets so expensive that only the rich can afford it, only the rich will have it.

Answer 5

Are you under the impression that insurance companies and HMO's provide unlimited care at present?

Answer 6

they will raise taxes of course..but universal health care hasn't been enacted yet so we will have to wait and see what happens..I don't have anything against it..I want to keep my present healthcare and not to force into a government program

Answer 7

The Democrats will make sure that the Wealthy and the Welfare people get treated first.

Democrats will make sure that the Working People will be the last to get treatment.

Answer 8

It will be left to a vote on yahoo answers

Answer 9

It seems logical that the people who are alive would be the first to get to vote.

Answer 10

Currently happens via the managers (with no medical training) that allow or deny payments from your insurer...