How Much is Your Life Worth?

QALY - Quality-Adjusted Life Year - it's an acronym you are going to learn to hate in the coming years if Obamacare is passed. . . .It is a code word for extreme "rationing". Costly medical treatment will only be given to you when your life expectancy and usefulness exceeds the cost of the treatment.

In other words, a 40 year old versus 80 year old needing open heart surgery. . . .Which person would the thousands of dollars of treatment be better spent? Which person would benefit society the most with the surgery? It sure wouldn't be the 80 year old according to QALY calculations? So when you hear that Obamacare will kill Grandma this is what the debate is all about. . . . this is some scary stuff or as Mr. Evolution, Charles Darwin, himself might call it "Survival of the Fittest" or could it be called a form of Hitler's "Final Solution"?

Here's a Sports Analogy: You're a Rookie for the New York Yankees - You've worked your whole life for this. . . .You've played little league, high school, college and toughed it out in the minor leagues. You've hit the big time and your at the top of your game. Then one day you have an injury and your batting/fielding stats start to go down. You get called into the managers office and it's been determined that you are no longer "useful" or a "benefit" to the team - they send you right back down to the minor leagues. (unfortunately with Obamacare you'd be sent six feet under)

BTW - All you senior citizens out there that are on the Obama bandwagon. . . .I hope you're right and Obamacare doesn't ration medical treatment to the extent of QALY, because you'll be the first one they'll want to "pull the plug" on. . . .

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

Dick Morris called it QARY - Quality-Adjusted Remaining Years instead of QALY.

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Go to this website to read more about QALY:

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/24/how-much-is-a-year-of-your-lif