A nightmare that doctors overwhelmingly choose to avoid when they die themselves

[HiPointDem]

156. i am worried about choice of care being taken from older people, yes. and that would not

have to be done by 'banning' anything.

you just make the 'standard of care' one that omits or limits funding for whatever it is you want to stop. all based on 'sound scientific evidence,' of course.

the problem with that being that it's possible to generate 'scientific evidence' for almost anything.

you can also do it in a more subtle way; simply by mounting a campaign to throw out a lot of information about the bad effects of policy x while ignoring the beneficial aspects of policy x.

you can use this to gin up support for changing the standard of care in the direction you want, or just to influence people to 'choose' what you want them to.

and if you're in the field (i am) and follow policy and research (i do), you can see this in action.

i reject all attempts to turn senior citizens into a special class with a different standard of care, and i am seeing those attempts.