"Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer."
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Short story writers from the United StatesSocial criticsHuman rights activistsPlaywrights from the United StatesEuthanasia activists
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"Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing", The Huffington Post (2010-06-23)
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