The ethics of so-called health care “reform”
May 20th, 2010 | by Brian Schwartz |Jason Sagall at Americans for Free Choice in Medicine has written an excellent health care parable showing that politically-controlled health care turns ” turns each person into, at once, prey and predator, victim and thief.” It begins:
Your wife is stricken with a terrible medical condition. Her insurance benefits just ran out. You need money for her treatment.
You go to your next-door neighbor and tell him about your wife’s misfortune. You demand $5,000.
Your neighbor is stupefied. Still, he expresses sympathy for your situation. He refers you to a registered charity and offers to connect you with someone who could help start a campaign to raise donations for your wife. He gives you a check for $100.
Your frustration mounts. Your emotional state is the equivalent of that which one feels from the recognition of a moral injustice, as if nature has the ability to inflict illness upon your wife by a conscious, concerted intent to rob her of her life.
Read the rest: A Health Care Parable.
(via FIRM)
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