Monday, March 31, 2014

That Constituency is Locked Up

Mickey Kaus (tip to Instapundit) notes a new ability to buy time to save gunshot victims by cooling the body for a while. He comments that new technology will always bend the cost curves up and asks:

What if you save the brain but can’t repair the “structural problems” with the body? What if you happen to have another perfectly adequate body from a recently brain-dead patient handy? Hmm. Is that covered under my Bronze plan? … It’s not hard to come up with highly inconvenient implications for the health technocrats who think they can “bend the curve” of medical costs. Crazy, expensive and desirable new technologies will always defeat them, no? [Plus Obama will only want to re-animate Democrats-ed If they know English and pay back taxes]

Re-animate dead Democrats? How silly. They already vote for Democrats. Why provide living people who need services, too?