Gordon wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 5:51pm:
mothra wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 4:45pm:
Gordon wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 4:42pm:
mothra wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 4:32pm:
Gordon wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 4:25pm:
mothra wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 3:11pm:
Just how many threads do you need to spew your noxious thought bubbles?
All day, every day.
I sear, you're loving this. All of this attention and a captive audience.
Mothra, one example where in society where no price is too much to save a a human life
Any clue as to why you're singling me out?
To answer your question though, if the positive reviews are high enough, massive amounts will be spent. It's all about PR.
Hpw much was spent to free a whale or two from ice sheets those years ago?
What the market wants, the market will have.
Conversely, it is my this principle that people are deemed disposable. It's how you deem people disposable, right Gordy?
You're the one who attacked the OP and I meant examples in everyday practical society.
If you're correct why do level rail crossings exist?
Well an obvious example would be our health care system. Unlimited funds will be spent on a person to keep them alive in our society. Some medications may incur out of pocket expenses but for a bed, care, medical attention etc, you do pretty well even as a public patient in our society.
Not so much elsewhere. But we as individuals do very well.
It's not unlimited and there would always be a bean counter up the back saying when enough is enough. It may seem unlimited, but if it were, the health system would be bankrupted but a small % of cases.
usually i would imagine there is an ethics committee who would have criteria on who qaulifies for a certain super expensive drug.
one just got listed for cystic fibrosis that costs around 100k a year.
but there will always be ethical dilemas.
say you have a last line antibioitc and you dont want the bugs to become resistant to it.
a hospital doctor who wants to use it has to go to the antibioitc steward and present the case. (this happens for a drug called piptaz in qld hospitals)
if an alternative antibiotic that is not as good can be used, the docter will be forced to use the older antibiotic, (even though the individual patient would be safer with the super drug) because they want to save the super drug for when its really needed and only for certain bugs.
but what if you have a palliative care patient with 2 weeks to live who gets that super bug?
the hospital ethics department and the treating doctors then sit down and decide if it can be used.
bearing in mind, the patient will die 2 weeks earlier without it but if it is used too much, it wont be available for other patients in the future .
very very difficult decisions.
who really decides.
say the patient was likely to last 6 months.
what then
its all very arbitary
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