Elderly health care causing unhealthy dilemmas

Recent breakthroughs in technology throughout the U.S health care industry have pioneered some of the boldest and most promising cancer treatments, surgical procedures, and genetically engineered drugs that have increased Americans life expectancy. Unfortunately the same technologies that are helping Americans live longer are also increasing demands on the health care system from a growing population of senior citizens. Questions are now being raised about when and from whom treatments should be withheld? Competition for the scarce medical resources of the health care system grows beyond the system's capacity to provide care for everyone. I believe the best solution to this ethical issue would be rationing out the health care delivered to the elderly. the health of the young can be ensured by relatively cheap preventive measures such as exercise programs and health education, the medical conditions of the elderly are often complicated, requiring the use of expensive technologies and treatments often, these treatments are ineffective in providing any tangible benefit for either patient or society. I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, but prolonging the lives of the elderly who no longer serve any use for society seems to be very wasteful. As a health care administer I can’t allow myself to become influenced by doing what sounds right all the time, unfortunately the health care industry has become a business and like every other business sometimes you have to do what’s better for the business. In this case I feel like rationing treatment for the elderly is for the betterment of the U.S. Basically the costs to prolong the life of one elderly person might be more productively directed toward the treatment of a far greater number of younger persons whose health can be ensured by less costly measures.