Another QALY Analogy

QALY - Quality-Adjusted Life Years

"To fix" versus "What's your usefulness to society"

Here's another analogy:

You purchase a car for $25,000. You keep up with all the maintenance, you made your car and insurance payments on time. . . .It's finally paid for and you've driven it over 100,000 miles. . . it still purrs like a kitten. . . .

Then one day unfortunately you run off the road and hit a tree. . . .

You call up your insurance agent and tell him the sad news. He gets out the blue book and tells you that your car is only worth $4,000. They determine it would cost $6,000 to get it running and looking good again, so they inform you it is totaled.

The calculation ratio to "fix it" versus "what it's worth". . . .Your car is now headed to the junk yard.

Now Mr. Joe Blows sees this car being pulled to the junk yard and figures he can get some cheap used parts, take out the dents, slap on some new paint and all will be good.

So he pays pennies on the dollar for the car, makes the necessary repairs and then goes and gets him a salvaged title and she purrs for many more years. . . .

So the analogy is. . . .when you have the chance to "repair" the elderly. . . .they can still be very useful members of society. My dad is 80 years old, and still works 6 months a year . I cannot imagine someone denying his hundreds of thousands of dollars of "repairs" he has had throughout the last few years.

It's a scary thought that this could happen to your elderly family members or the disabled. The government would make a calculation to determine the cost "fix them" versus "what their usefulness is to society".

Again I say. . . .Would you have ever imagined that your life would boil down to being just a formula in a calculation set by the government?

Gives new meaning to the quote: One Man's Trash is another Man's Treasure. . . . .