where to put health resources Posted on September 18, 2024 at 03:56:02 PM by more on this discussion
Guess you really don't process my posts..I didn't say they should stay hidden, thats what the govt was trying to stop with PL94-142, to get handicapped kids out of the corners into the mainstream.
You do have granite thinking, don't you, Jim. The issue of how much society should spend for what good purpose is about cost benefit per expenditure.
We have limited resources. The big one that has budget people talking all the time is the high cost of prolonging death in the final year of people's lives, when they spend more money in their final year of life, when the quality of life is already at its lowest.
Even my dad understood it...thinking it would be better not to prolong life but rather spend govt funds on education for the young which will have a lifetime to benefit from higher skills.
I'm being sarcastically absurd when I ask if you expect wheelchair lifts to be put on the back of firetrucks so that the handicapped can be firemen if they want to. Shall we have elevators installed on all two story fire houses to make it easier for those who can't walk can get up and down from the bunk rooms to the firetruck floor?
Yet we even still focus vast amounts on severely disabled children with no potential and then cut them off at age 18 when what they need is lifetime maintenance. Limited resources need to be balanced. The big expert on this was COlorado Gov Lamm who wrote extensively on where to put resources. Can society afford multiple attempts to improve the quality of life costing a million dollars of treatment for a single individual or first spend the most money where it will benefit the most people?
If you don't understand that, Jim, then youre just being bull headed. My dad was totally pissed in the 1990s when Dr Kevorkian was jailed for assisted suicides. He was quick to make sure he had his DNR and when they dropped him at the nursing home, he stroked, and couldn't swallow, it was pointless to put a feeding tube down his throat, because they don't stay put. Feeding tubes aren't useful for a long term maintenance solution but they do work when the objective is just to let damaged tissue heal and get back to normal. These ethical dilemmas occur in hospitals and long term care facilities all the time.
Have you noticed that churches used to say keep people alive at any cost, but have you also noticed that so long as the government pays, they stick with that. But not if the church is asked to forgo their next building project to prolong the lives of their most feeble parishioners?
People let their terminally ill people go, even children if additional care has futile outcomes.
Defend your position about that in general and rather than a snide remark, just how much is it worth for every second floor building to be equipped with handicap access. Try to write more than a sentence. Exactly why again did your son need access to THAT particular building and what did the board want to do? Try to build a case without going on the attack, as usual!