>>>>You have created a logical fallacy. For example, if you cut spending in emergency heart surgery then some people will die. Thus all spending cuts equate to death. How about if we cut spending on Viagra?
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>>Much of the healthcare spend goes on people in their last year/s of life, not on Viagra. QED.
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>My point about Viagra is that it is presently funded both in private insurance (regulated by the states) and through direct state plans, cutting spending like that does not result in death. Thus spending cuts are not equal to death.

Cutting short the only activity which is sports-like for a segment of the population might shorten their lives ;-)