12-24-2009, 11:33 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Austin,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA FIA, 351W
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What is your Life (QALY) Number?
Get ready for it; under the new health care plan, we know that some form of government rationing of health care services will be inevitable.
In most countries with socialized medicine (that's right, "socialized") including Britain, they use a life measurement called "QALY" (Quality Adjusted Life Year). It gives an individual a score between 0 (death) and 1 (perfect health). Health services get provided to those with higher scores; so the elderly and children, the disabled both mentally and physically get lower scores. The sweet spot is for those between 18 and 45 - they get most of the rationed medical care.
How's that for compassion for you?
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