How is my son dying sick for not having universal health care any different from abortion?

Answer 1

Perhaps I am not understanding your question - there is a huge difference

In abortion - you are actively seeking to end your sons life prior to his birth

If your son dies from being sick its not because of you not having universal health care - or any insurance for that matter - and it doesnt mean you chose to kill your son as you did in an abortion - it simply means you didnt get the cure for whatever ails him

There is a difference betwen choosing to end ones life and not being able to save it

Answer 2

The girl who said they have to treat him: My sister is a nurse, and I know for a fact that the hospitals will not treat a person without insurance the same as they do for insured patients. Besides that, Jose would have to work 3 jobs just to pay the bill for his 'sons' treatment. If millions of dollars are spent on a fake war, and on the state of Israel which doesn't really need it anymore, then there should be a universal health care plan. It doesn't have to be free health care for all, but should be based on family income. Everyone should be able to have insurance, and they should help pay with premiums and co-pays. That's what we have in Illinois, and it's working great.

Answer 3

While I sympathize with your position, you seem to have confused "universal health care" with "affordable health care". Personally, I'd go for the latter. What we have at the moment in the US is brutally unacceptable, yet this amorphous idea of "Universal Health Care" seems to me to be a typical vague, Utopian ideal. The root problem here seems to be that insurance companies, like what used to be 'public utilities', no longer operate for the benefit of the customer; they are now run strictly to generate the maximum possible profit. This may enrich some, but it impoverishes the vast majority of us, and weakens the country for the benefit of a few of the inhabitants (I won't call them citizens, since they seem to feel no obligation or responsibility to either the nation or its citizens).
As for using an ER for health care, that's an incredibly bad idea! ERs in most cases are already jammed with people in just that situation, and are incredibly expensive to operate. That's like paying $600 at a specialty store for the same radio you could buy for $50 at your local discount house. You may not have to pay for an ER visit if you can't afford it, but the money has to come from somewhere or the hospital goes bankrupt. And that somewhere is from all of us.

Answer 4

Maybe they are not, in the sense that maybe the child's parents have failed him in each case.

I know of no case where someone has died because the government has not provided "universal health insurance." Treatment is always available, except where illegal immigrants have caused hospitals to close due to bankruptcy and where candidates such as Barack Obama have voted against bills mandating medical treatment for babies who survive abortions.

There have been many cases where socialized medicine is the law where the long waits for treatment, and the denial of treatment of the elderly, have contributed to deaths.

This is a case where some would be tempted to apply the "knee jerk, bleeding heart" label to some of the sentiments that can be expressed.

Answer 5

If you TRULY can't see the difference, then you are brain dead.
And if your son is dying, I am very sorry. There are many people and organizations that would be willing to help you with the cost of his medical care. But NO ONE should be forced to do it! AND it is not the American tax payers responsibility to provide you with health care. Sorry.

Answer 6

commission versus ommission:

Abortion is an act of killing a life that would have lived if no action had been taken (outside of preserving the mother's life). The death of your son is failure to act to save his life.

If this is an actual situation (and not hypothetical), you have my sympathy. Whatever the case, I hope that you can see through the politics of the matter. Even the most efficient delivery system for health care will sometimes fail. Sometimes, people are just too sick.

My fear for universal health care is that it will simply place bureaucratic obstacles in the way of obtaining life saving services. Remember the socialistic experiments tried in both Russia and China to provide universal food for all? The result was famine and millions of deaths in both countries.

Socialism does not work.

Answer 7

Huh?
I would advise you to visit any ER across the nation for health care, you do not pay upfront, and there are plenty of organizations willing to assist with any medical care for children.
An abortion is an act of violence that destroys a baby. There is nothing more selfish than abortion and nothing more vehemently defended by the liberals.
I have said a prayer for you and your son. I have asked the Lord to bring you hope and show the direction you need to take to get your son to a caring and knowledgable doctor.

Answer 8

How is holding a person's head underwater different than finding a person under water and choosing not to jump in to help?

What if there is no cure for what your son is dying from? What good will universal health care do him? And how is universal health care related to murder?

Answer 9

No one is denied healthcare. If your son is really dying, doctors aren't going to ignore your son just because you don't have insurance. There is already universal healthcare in this regard.

Your question is incoherent. Letting your son die by not taking him to a doctor because you chose not to is no different than abortion. In both cases you choose death over life.

Answer 10

There is no connection between the two ideas. Abortion should not be funded by the government and neither should any healthcare.
A hospital bed is a not a right. Red the Constitution.