I'm not enthusiastic about drug abusers being rewarded, but in my view this is at least partly about her father's choice. I thank my God that none of my children have gone down that path, but should it ever happen does that negate my right to care for them and to make choices about their care?
I support our troops, but in this country we really don't have to make a choice between the two: we can afford both - especially if we were to divert money from state-subsidized abortions and other iniquity.
IMO, a lifetime cap of around 250K for public provision of non-palliative medical care would be reasonable, with only palliative care provided when life expectancy was less than 12 months.
I support our troops, but in this country we really don't have to make a choice between the two: we can afford both...
I take it you don't spend much time in VA hospitals.
- especially if we were to divert money from state-subsidized abortions and other iniquity.
The state and federal governments spent $89 million to fund 177,000 abortion procedures for low-income women in FY 2006... a drop in the bucket in terms of US health care spending. Abortions provided to low-income women saved many times their cost in reduced future health care spending. Moral arguments aside, eliminating abortion would have little effect on the availability of health care.
----- Perhaps you think me a cold hearted bastard.
Well, I'm equally frustrated by people who argue for unlimited public spending for people in a PVS - most of whom will be dead in five years - when we don't provide universal pre-natal nutrition and care for people who will likely be alive and conscious for the next 75 years. Or that 85 year old men should receive $75,000 cardiac surgery at the same time we underfund care for 22 year olds returning from Iraq - where an understrength military is sending troops already subjected to concussive brain damage back out into the field despite the fact that we *know* that repeat concussions are much more dangerous than the first injury alone.
These strike me as deeply stupid choices, and the situation is made worse when people refuse to admit that we are even making choices.