From the HUFF NEWS:
What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn’t have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? “Are you saying society should just let him die?” Wolf Blitzer asked…
Paul interjected to offer an explanation for how this was, more-or-less, the root choice of a free society. He added that communities and non-government institutions can fill the void that the public sector is currently playing.
“We never turned anybody away from the hospital,” he said of his volunteer work for churches and his career as a doctor. “We have given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves, assume responsibility for ourselves … that’s the reason the cost is so high.”
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EDITOR: If a person is in a pre-death coma, how much ‘heroic’ (costly) treatment should they receive, even if they are insured? Prolonging the inevitable drives up the premiums and thus deprives needed services for those who are to go on living. It is time that society addresses these questions rather than trying to hide from facing death head on.
