just thinking

So I was thinking about a health care system where some bureaucrat decides who's ailments are worth spending the money to treat and who's aren't; who's life is worth the money to save and who's isn't. Then I got to wondering how euthanasia fit's into all this; couldn't we save a lot of money if we just "put down" some of our more expensive fellow citizens? Where's and how fine is the line between voluntary and involuntary euthanasia? Who get's to decide? Heck, if we just offed everyone over 65 we could put down the social security crisis. Imagine how much we'd save on medicare.

Then today I began to wonder how eugenics and abortion fit into the question. I haven't dug deeply into it, but a quick scan of the net resulted in a few interesting links:



http://www.eugenics.net/
http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html
http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/eugenics/eugenics.html
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/13_03/eugenic.shtml
http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html

I haven't read through all this information and these don't necessarily reflect my own views on the subject.

Anyway, I'd love to know what you think.