2007-07-09 08:11:56 · 18 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Prisoners of war have the right under the Geneva Convention to receive adequate health care.
If the U.S insists on keeping them prisoners they have an obligation, morally and by law to treat them humanely.
It's not like they choose to remain there and demand the best in health care!
2007-07-09 11:43:30 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone read the article on the news yesterday about how the US Gov't spends 12 BILLION dollars a year in the Iraq war? Wow ...... 12 billion .......... yet they can't provide health care for their citizens.
2007-07-10 02:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd be more than happy to send you to Guantanamo if you want health care that badly.
2007-07-09 09:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are treated under the military healthcare system. It is a form of socialized healthcare and it has its problems. Socialized healthcare on a national scale would be disastrous. Look at Canada and Australia as examples with their long waiting lists to get common surgeries done. A lot of Canadians come to the U.S. to get medical procedures done because our healthcare system is a lot better.
2007-07-09 08:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
...And not a single legitimate answer from any of the "medical treatment is a luxury" crowd.
Why?
Because foreign prisoners are more important to the American government than Americans. That's why.
2007-07-09 08:55:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are asking why we pay the medical bills for the people we have imprisoned, but don't pay the medical people for people who are free?
Same reason we pay the medical bills for anyone else in prison. So they don't die before we want them to, and so they don't increase imprisonment costs by making the other prisoners sick.
2007-07-09 08:17:26 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The wounded healer heals others better.
2007-07-09 08:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause there's like 1,000 of them and 300 million of us.
2007-07-09 08:27:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because if we didn't provide health care for them, the bleeding hearts would be screaming to high heaven. Correct?
2007-07-09 08:29:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Becuase if you didn't give the terrorists health care the Liberals in this country would raise holy hell.
2007-07-09 08:16:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋