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

[Samantha Atkins]

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