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You're Not Needy Enough
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The Death Panel argument for health care is not about death so much as it's about cases like this: In Ontario, a boy with degenerating vision was told that in order to get an operation that would save his sight, he'd first have to go blind. The bureaucrats, looking to save money, would not approve the simple, $3,000 procedure for someone who was going blind but wasn't yet blind, because they were still mulling over whether the procedure works, even though it apparently has a great track record and has already funded a three-year study that confirmed its success. The family had to pay the $3,000 itself. This is what people fear from a government-run health care system (not that a private system isn't full of stories of insurers refusing to cover procedures because they don't want to spend the money). (CBC)
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