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Bob Parks
Who Will Live; Who Need Not

I'm hear watching Hillary Clinton at this rally in High Point, North Carolina, touting her health-care-for-all goals. It's funny that while she talks about everyone who has a right to be treated, some are presently discussing who will not…

"If a mass casualty critical care event were to occur tomorrow, many people with clinical conditions that are survivable under usual health care system conditions may have to forgo life-sustaining interventions owing to deficiencies in supply or staffing," the report states.

To prepare, hospitals should designate a triage team with the Godlike task of deciding who will and who won't get lifesaving care, the task force wrote. Those out of luck are the people at high risk of death and a slim chance of long-term survival. But the recommendations get much more specific, and include:

- People older than 85
- Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings
- Severely burned patients older than 60
- Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced Alzheimer's disease. Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes
— from a report appearing Monday in the May edition of Chest, the medical journal of the American College of Chest Physicians

Let's keep this quiet. The AARP votes.

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