Posted by
Absolutely Nobama on Friday, June 26, 2009 10:11:04 PM
I'm going to stun some of you fiscal conservatives out there. The trillion dollar price tag of Soviet Health Care is not the most important issue. It's the ethical questions that have not been asked that are even more important.
1) Will the federal government now have the power to terminate pregnancies that are deemed too expensive ? Will fetuses with conditions like Tay-Sachs or Sickle Cell be marked for termination ? (The Nazis had a term for this. It was called "Life unworthy of life".)
2) Will the federal government regulate high risk pregnancies and force abortions (by not paying for them) by mothers with conditions like preeclampsia or severe gestational diabetes ?
3) Will the federal government decide what diseases are self inflicted and not worthy of top notch care ? (Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease, lung cancer, alcoholic hepatitis, etc.)
4) Will the federal government choose, in order to save money, not to give top notch care to those injured doing dangerous things ?
(Riding a motorcycle, contact sports, etc.)
5) What will prevent the government from misusing the data it collects from running health care ? (Information such as: Who has what in their genetics ?)
I'm sure there are a million more questions that should be asked. "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" is way more important than artificial "fairness".