Comments on: Are Survivors’ Costs a Pro-Life Issue?

By: Politicized Prognostication at CBO : HEALTH REFORM WATCH

Politicized Prognostication at CBO : HEALTH REFORM WATCH — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:57:58 +0000

[...] anyone familiar with Timothy Westmoreland’s work on CBO budget scoring would have been suspicious of its prognostications from the outset. As he noted in 2008: The budget process systemically favors policies that let sick [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:13:46 +0000

The latter, though there are people I respect who likely disagree with me; see, e.g.,

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion

/oped/articles/2007/03/26/good_programs_vs_bad_apples/

“Pneumonia, once regarded as the “Old Man’s Friend,” offered the very frail a dignified death. Now we spend millions of dollars per year offering Alzheimer’s patients an abysmal existence by keeping them alive on dialysis.”

Schuck blogged onthis topic on Volokh.

By: Maryland Conservatarian

Maryland Conservatarian — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:09:27 +0000

“But it strikes me that in our accounting the costs and benefits of health care in this country, budgetary savings arising out of early death ought to be suspect.”

“Suspect” as in “probably not real” or “suspect” as in “distateful to even consider any positives arising from an early death”?

By: Daniel Goldberg

Daniel Goldberg — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:04:46 +0000

Great post. My comments were obese, so I posted them here.