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ANN ALTHOUSE ON NATIONAL HEALTH CARE AND LETTING THE BOOMERS DIE: ?It?s one thing to deny the choic?

By Glenn Reynolds

ANN ALTHOUSE ON NATIONAL HEALTH CARE AND LETTING THE BOOMERS DIE: “It’s one thing to deny the choice to die, quite another to deny the choice to live. The individual may not have a right to get killed, because the state’s interest in protecting people from coercion and abuse is a good one. But Kaus is concerned about a government that wants you dead ? perhaps not by actively offing you, but by maintaining full control over the medical treatments you need in order to fend off death.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).