Death panels are a form of triage where a group of doctors pick and choose who gets life saving medical procedures based mostly on cost vs. number of years a life can be extended.
This is a great way to save money, but is considered somewhat immoral unless the doctors' goal is to prevent prolonged suffering and not just save $$$.
Christians are not allowed to self terminate, and doctors hate watching people suffer pointlessly for years, so this is kind of a gray area.
A true death panel is a group of shadowy bureaucrats who decide which people will get government funding for life saving medical procedures and which won't.
The cost savings would be even greater than a death panel of doctors because No's could be given to political enemies, personal enemies, people who smoke, people who eat salt, poor people, and minorities.
The group of shadowy bureaucrats could in theory be replaced by an AI running cost/benefit ratio calculations for a more distilled evil.
Robots place 0 value on human life and appeals would take 58 microseconds to process, so the cost savings would be enormous!
Finally, death panels could be discarded entirely and savings brought to infinity if we adopted the Logan's Run technique of throwing anyone over the age of 30 into an incinerator.
Medical spending would drop from 25% of GDP down to 3%.
Looking at any
population pyramid in countries around the world, people start dying off in droves at age 50, half are gone by 75, and all the rest are done by 100.
But most medical spending occurs in the last little bit of a person's life usually.
(Also kind of neat how God makes extra boys at the start, but they die doing stupid stuff and match the # of girls around age 40)
