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Reasoning Based On Cost Has Been Strenuously Resisted; It Violated The Hippocratic Oath, Was Associated With Rationing, And Derided As Putting A Price On Life... Indeed, Many Physicians Were Willing To Lie To Get Patients What They Needed From Insurance Companies That Were Trying To Hold Down Costs.

Americans Tend To Endorse The Use Of Physician-assisted Suicide And Euthanasia When The Question Is Abstract And Hypothetical.

Vague Promises Of Savings From Cutting Waste, Enhancing Prevention And Wellness, Installing Electronic Medical Records And Improving Quality Are Merely ‘lipstick’ Cost Control, More For Show And Public Relations Than For True Change... Savings Will Require Changing How Doctors Think About Their Patients: Doctors Take The Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously, “as An Imperative To Do Everything For The Patient Regardless Of The Cost Or Effects On Others.

When Implemented, The Complete Lives System Produces A Priority Curve On Which Individuals Aged Between Roughly 15 And 40 Years Get The Most Substantial Chance, Whereas The Youngest And Oldest People Get Chances That Are Attenuated... The Complete Lives System Justifies Preference To Younger People Because Of Priority To The Worst-off Rather Than Instrumental Value.