"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message news
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:21:03 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:


Read pages 424 onward... with Medicare you will be required to have
every-five-year "counseling" as to whether treatment should continue,
or whether you should go to hospice and die. I kid you not :-(


The modern equivalent of put the old folks adrift on an ice floe. How much
longer before we have the 'Ethical Suicide Parlors' that Kurt Vonegut wrote
about in 'Welcome to the monkey house'.