[extropy-chat] the (scary) future of pro-death bioethics and legislation

[devon fowler]

Samantha I agree completely with your statements. 
Enhancements helping the well are important in their
own right and we have to stop government interventions
from preventing the enhancments that the so called
'well' want.  It is my belief that everyone is not as
well as they could be so in a sense we are all
somewhat in need of therapy!  Regime change is so
important...how is this going to happen though?...
--- Samantha Atkins <samantha at objectent.com> wrote:
> With national health care just around the corner,
> one has to wonder how 
> far the hazy line between "therapy" and
> "enhancement" will be pushed.  
> When the government is the single payer cum single
> insurer the push 
> will be one to not "waste" those tax dollars and
> give everyone "his or 
> her fair share".   Dollars to donuts all forms of
> "enhancement" will be 
> unsupported.   And when the tax bite increases and
> the number of 
> private citizens going to out-of-the-norm
> specialists decreases the 
> price of these "enhancements" will go higher and
> higher due to lack of 
> any economy of scale or research dollars or payments
> for expensive 
> operations using advanced techniques that would push
> the state of the 
> art.   And if we don't get regime change in November
> the situations is 
> as bad or worse.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> - samantha
> 
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Devon Fowler


	
		
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