New York magazine interviews Dr. Jack Kevorkian about health care reform. He doesn’t much like the new scenario, and has some thoughts of his own: “Everybody should pay for health care, and therefore you should tax everybody a little, and the fairest way is to tax profits. So that if a person has more money one year over the last year, then he pays ten percent of that excess. So that everybody pays equally. And all the corporations and everybody pays that way.” Kevorkian also weighs in on the state of Detroit (“a dying city, if it’s not already dead”) and the “not very rosy” future of the planet. Verdict: not an optimistic man. [%comments]
Dr. Kevorkian on Health Care
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So then where do the incentives to work hard for a raise or earn a profit go?
Shame he didn’t jump on the whole anti-reform bandwagon to promote assisted suicide as freedom of choice. He could have branded it something like a Death Panel of One.
maybe the less than optimistic dr. death should put himself out of his misery.
#1 He said a 10% tax… I guess that would leave 90% of the incentive.
(Humor) So Dr. Kevorkian’s new death machine has parts from old alarm clocks. Press the “snooze” button and you can live for five more minutes….bada..bing…
…I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and be sure to tip your waitress.
So, he wants to tax savings, huh? Well, the increased incentive to spend would at least jump start the economy in the short run.
So as long as you spend all your income on vacations and opera tickets and so forth by the end of the year and don’t save any of it, you’re home free, right?
You would think that Dr. K would not be someone on the Judeo-Christian trajectory…but I’m wondering.
Not only is his taxation plan a repeat of ancient tithing (10% of the “increase”), but, truly, there is an element of compassion in seeking to help someone avoid suffering.
My father, a life-long full-time minister recently told me that if he ever gets to the place that others have to do everything for him, he’d rather die. I said, jokingly, “So you want me to just shoot you?”
To my amazement, he seemed to offer his consent to such a scenario!
I saw a dear uncle waste away from cancer. We prayed. We pleaded. We wept. Yet he died gasping for air, his mind gone.
I knew that uncle very well. I think he would have much, much rather went on his own terms.
I would too.
Maybe Dr. K isn’t quite so black-and-white as we think?