Old people account for 90% of medical costs. That is 25% of our national budget. Yet, nobody, not even Trump has the balls to talk about it.
Why do we keep them alive? They aren't enjoying life anymore. Nobody likes to visit them. Their care takers abuse them. They increase the price of doctors for everyone.
>>138630561
My parents are in their 60s, are they still productive?
>Why 5% of Patients Create 50% of Health Care Costs
sound familiar?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbell/2013/01/10/why-5-of-patients-create-50-of-health-care-costs/#409c06c628d7
We should legalize assisted suicide as a cost savings measure.
Require people to file a living will when applying for medicare.
Ban all prescription drug ads from TV.
>>138630785
https://archive.is/pqZ6H
>>138630727
I know plenty of healthy people in their 70s, even 80s that take care of themselves. It's when they have a terminal illness (what used to be called "natural causes") and resources are devoted to keeping them alive. Also stuff like hip replacements, etc.
>>138630836
All good points, but I think we really need those "death panels" with an absolute limit on what the government will spend on a person per year.
>>138630836
I'll be in charge of what can be shown on tv okay?
And yes, I want to tell people to die when I want
We need socialized healthcare to save people
We have too many people now so let's use socialized healthcare to kill people.
>>138630561
People existing to serve the state, and not, the state, to serve the people, is FASCIST. Are you Fascist?
>>138630561
OP is too dumb to realise he/she will be old too
>>138630561
whats wrong? don't want to spend your 80-120th
years in a nursing home in a democratic neighborhood, being tendied to by bbw black
women and college sluts?
>>138630561
>Old people
Putting young people against old people in this thread
Men against women/feminists in the last thread?
The Boomers against the Millennials next time?
The conservatives against the liberals in another thread?
The Christians aginst the Muslims next time?
The whites against blacks next time?
Constantly pitting one Western group against another. Yuri Bezmenov says that's how the KGB did it under Putin. Putin's FSB is getting away with this on /pol/ today because /pol/ forgot about Yuri.