My friend Wendy is DEAD: she couldn't buy broccoli

[haele]

56. But Steve Jobs was able to purchase additional time and quality of life - the OP's friend wasn't.

You might say that Steve Jobs was more important to society than Wendy was and was thus "more deserving" of additional time and quality of life, and the ability to pass down his assets, but Wendy didn't have the chance show if she might have been just as deserving - who knows what she might have been able to do, able to influence, if she was just given another five, or ten, or twenty years.

Having to buy health access means that the value and dignity of any one person, of their position in the universe, of their contributions and their very soul, is based on the amount of money they, their family, and their friends can accumulate - or to some people's view (and we know what brand of tea they drink...) - scam out of other's charitable wallets just for a few extra months of life- because if it's time for them to go, why should they fight it?
If you're poor and sick, die quickly so you don't saddle your heirs with debt.

A Calvinist doctrine, and now an Opus Dei doctrine, and it's just as much in service to Mammon as any other self-serving, opportunistic excuse to take what you want and the hell with the rest.

Haele