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The Financial value of a human being aged 60 and above as concern about the cost of healthcare provision increases

Sunday, 30 December 2012
With many governments having financial difficulties, and with the population getting older, are the governments sacrificing and placing price tags of old people's lives?

People reaching the age of 60 are developing a type of anxiety known as 'fear and uncertainty' about their healthcare as government seem to start putting price tags on lives. Some governments carry this approach so secretively that many common people seem to know but are confused because of terms applied to them. In places like the UK, there are fears that older people's live could be taken away just to make the NHS financially viable.

In Germany for example, old people are ferried away from the country and placed in care home in low cost countries, according to reports from the British newspaper, Daily mail.
swedish-pensioners

The paper reports that German pensioners are being sent to care homes in Eastern Europe and Asia in what has been described as an ‘inhumane deportation’. The rising numbers of the elderly and sick are moved overseas for long-term care because of sky-high costs at home. It adds that some private healthcare providers are even building homes overseas, while state insurers are also investigating whether they can care for their clients abroad.

In the UK itself, there is increasing debate about the cost of care to be provided for the sick especially the elderly. Some commentators have made statement such as that it is cheaper to let old and sick people to die, as it would be economically viable to do so.

As medical technology and education has increase and lengthen our lives, is this a curse or a sign of human being destined for increased pain?

In Sweden, they boast of better health care, which has made fewer people to die of acute myocardial infarction. According to recent data from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) more who die from various forms of dementia illnesses has to do with ageism rather than other illnesses. People have time to get dementia since it comes with very advanced age.

But the healthcare services provision in Sweden has degraded in the past years since the government here decided to put welfare related services into private hands. Private equity firms have taken control, collect money from the government, ferry these monies to tax havens, and used various forms of approaches to evade taxes.
Then waiting times on Swedish hospitals have never been longer and sometimes patients have to places in corridors on trolleys as hospitals beds have been reduced as well as dismal quality in care home.

All over the place, the cost of healthcare is rising and people are living longer. Politicians are secretively looking for ways to eliminate old people who have no money to pay for a more exclusive healthcare or families who can support the life of their sick elderly people. The questions we are asking here is what is the cost of a human life and have everything healthcare now come down to money. What is the human valued in financial terms and are the old people the only ones to suffer from degrading financial value? What about people who are not old but have never contributed to the social system in the way of work and the like?
by Scancomark.com Team