Now We’re Paying People To Take Their Life Saving Medicine

From the source:

In a Philadelphia program people prescribed warfarin, an anti-blood-clot medication, can win $10 or $100 each day they take the drug — a kind of lottery using a computerized pillbox to record if they took the medicine and whether they won that day.

Before the program, Chiquita Parker, a 25-year-old single mother with lupus, too ill to continue her job with special needs children, repeatedly made medication mistakes, although she knows she depends on warfarin to prevent clots than can cause strokes, paralysis, or death.

“I would forget to take it,” and feel “like I couldn’t’t breathe,” she said. Or she would “take two in a day,” and develop bruises from uncontrolled internal bleeding.

But in the six-month lottery program, she pocketed about $300. “You got something for taking it,” Ms. Parker said. Suddenly, she said, “I was taking it regularly, I was doing so good.”

Ugh… wait I minute while I put on my liberal-ideology-evolutionary-theory-believing hat. (Puts hat on)

THIS IS RIDICULOUS! What we are doing to messing with Nature’s natural ability to WEED OUT THE SICK AND STUPID among us. This perpetual bad behavior of all these ingrates, who will continue procreating, will eventually fubar the gene pool so much that one day there won’t be anyone left around to create the medicine, let alone pay people to take it.

I’m sorry folks, but if you don’t like your life enough to remember to take potentially LIFE SAVING medicine, you don’t deserve the medicine in the first place.

(Takes off hat, put back on rational-thinking-God-fearing-conservative-Christian-hat)

This makes no sense. In a day in age where everyone is concerned over rising medical costs, can we really afford to pay people to take their medicine? People should be wholly responsible for their own lives, whether the cause of effect of their actions is positive or negative. If living isn’t enough incentive to take medication… that should be the end of the story there.

In the snippet from the story I’ve posted, does anybody else see the flaw in the logic? Chiquita Parker can’t remember to take her medicine, but she can remember that there is a reward program for taking her medicine? If she was really that forgetful, wouldn’t she forget about the cash incentive? Just a thought.