{"id":34,"date":"2014-09-21T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-09-21T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:35:00","slug":"why-we-must-ration-health-care-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Why We Must Ration Health Care &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/19\/magazine\/19healthcare-t.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;\">Why We Must Ration Health Care &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.8150005340576px;\">If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn\u2019t going to be good. But suppose it\u2019s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man \u2014 and everyone else like him \u2014 with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone\u2019s life? If there is any point at which you say, \u201cNo, an extra six months isn\u2019t worth that much,\u201d then you think that health care should be rationed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">&#8216;via Blog this&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why We Must Ration Health Care &#8211; NYTimes.com: You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why We Must Ration Health Care &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}