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The idea that “we” spend money for people’s care is a fiction created to improve insurers’ bottom lines. People spend their own money, or their own benefits, and insurers collect premiums according to their own actuarial tables and experience.

Too many people die, not because they are in intractable misery, but because somebody else feels miserable looking at them. There are few slopes more slippery than “mercy killing.” [/quote]

Well, this just goes to show you don't know what you're talking about. In the US, Medicare eligibility starts at age 65, and "we" the taxpayers are absolutely paying for all the end-of-life care that prolongs life for a very short time at best. One-quarter of all Medicare spending goes to care in the last year of life.

Also, there are a lot more rumors about mercy killings than there are actual mercy killings. It's really, really hard to die voluntarily with medical assistance in this country, and medical professionals are far too worried about *murder charges* to go around giving *controlled substances* out like candy.[/quote]

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