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This sounds cruel I know, but we're going to have to kick realism into high gear here in this country.
It's time to kill the drug programs, neither State or Federal, (which is you the taxpayer, in both instances anyway), can no longer afford to be this charitable.
People are meant to die. That's just one of those facts of life that must be taken back into the reality of thought. It's Mother Natures way of population control.
Neonatal units are in the same boat as well as triple or quad bypasses, transplants and a whole lot more.
It's hard to say how much the value of a life is worth.
I suppose one must decide first, whether that value is to be measured up by emotion or the monitary feasibility.
Emotion is a personal thing and unless it sold in a song, book, play or movie, it actually holds no stable weight for the sway of taxpayer cost based realism.
So when that life is not sustainable naturally, a value sum must realistically, monetarily be placed on it.
True story without the emotional adage placed upon it, told only from the point of the assisted monitary realism of the situation.
I had a friend that was very over weight and pregnant. The weight was a pre factor, and not due to the cause pregnancy. Her previous habit of non self denial carried on into her pregnancy. She developed preeclampsia and her blood pressure went through the roof. Her Doctor ordered total bed rest as well as the termination of all salt in take, to which by her choice, neither of either order was put into practice. So by 19 weeks, ( because of her own personal choice, to ignore her Doctors orders) her life became threatened. She had started to puke up the poison from her own liver, and consequently went into convulsions. They took her baby immediately to save her life. Her baby wasn't even formed all the way. It's lungs hadn't developed enough to function on their own, along with a host of other things that are to numerous to mention, that weren't yet capable of functioning yet either. The child had to stay in the neonatal unit for over 4 months, at a phenomenal expense of over a million dollars, that the taxpayers of South Carolina picked up, and the expense didn't stop there.
The child had a heart problem, as well as a development problem, and a massive eye problem due to the life sustaining oxygen that was required for so long. So the untold cost burden to the taxpayer went on for years.
The child grew to the ripe age of 15 and then consequently repeated her own mothers example.
Realistically I ask you, was the taxpayers monitary burden from this repeated situation worth the emotional value of her life?
I was her friend, and my answer is no.
Neither life should have been sustained, nor would they have been if the taxpayer was not forced to shoulder the burden.
History is more than likely to repeat it's self in a few more years by the child's child, and the taxpayers burden will continue to carry on, unless we start looking into the cold harsh face of realism and realize, that Mother Nature's system has intelligent merit, and should be allowed to proceed without the man made interference otherwise known as the Medical Industry.
It's the reality of the real, people. We, as a country can no longer afford the phenomenal costs, of other people's emotional burdens.
The hardships placed upon the country because of them, are to much to sustain.
Cash-strapped states are cutting back on a program that provides free medicine to people with HIV, leaving thousands of patients to wonder where their drugs will come from and stirring fears of a return to the days when an AIDS diagnosis meant certain death.
At least 19 states have taken such steps as capping enrollment, dropping patients, instituting waiting lists, lowering the income ceiling for eligibility, and no longer covering certain drugs or tests.
The AIDS Drug Assistance Program is funded by the federal and state governments and run by the states. It provides free drugs in all 50 states and U.S. territories. But because people are living longer with HIV and the recession has created more demand for the program, states have been unable to keep up.
"It's very frustrating to be stuck in this position at this age and not feel well and be wondering if I am going to die any differently than the people who I helped die in the '80s," said Stephen Farrar, 55, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who has HIV and is going on Florida's waiting list. "Am I going to be one of those people?"
