by Elizabeth M Young

Created on: September 10, 2009

Nothing is a better test to determine if a society is sick than the willingness to deny medical care based on personal moral, religious, or political judgments and not on an individual's medical need. It is not a far leap to start hearing about denial of medical care to others based on an expanding list of selfish and stupid personal or religious preferences.

It is an indicator that the temperature of a society is way too high, when hate drives medical care decisions.

Are the individuals who advocate for the disturbing premise of this topic advocating denial of medical care to extremist criminals who murder others based on their moral and political preferences? Is any proponent advocating denial of medical care to wealthy alcoholics with drunk driving incidents, or extremist conservatives who advocated, supported, failed to stop, or ordered that prisoners be abused and tortured, putting our soldiers and our entire nation at risk of torture as a form of retribution, entitlement and retaliation?

When Americans start to throw out ideas about denying medical procedures to others based on nothing but moral, political, religious and personal judgments, Americans subject themselves to ideas about denying medical procedures for themselves. Everyone has or does something that insults, oppresses, disgusts, enrages, or upsets someone else.

Up to now, most of these irritants were not worthy of the death penalty by any means, be it by killing or by denial of care.

Of course, the advocates of this despicable idea will be the first ones to get their own friends and family members somehow exempted. The next step will be to push for cutting public funding. This will allow the truly evil, overcompensated, and selfish to insure that they get theirs while denying others.

And, it is clear that selfish motives are afoot. Far too many people were left out of the "let's kill them by denying care, because we don't like what they do" equation, which is proof that the proponents of medical care denial fully intend to deny it to anyone but themselves.

Why not deny expensive prosthetic devices and therapy, reconstructive surgery, and other unnecessary medical care to amphetamine addicts, skateboarders, serial killers, backyard wrestlers, tobacco chewers, monster truck drivers, drag racers, NASCAR drivers, dune buggy enthusiasts, hunters, surfers, extreme skiers, rodeo artists, horse riders, alcoholics, anorexics, and others who engage in hazardous risky or unhealthy behaviors just for the fun of it?

It is the final symptom of a sick society when advocating death through denial, based on hate, immoral religious thought, political leanings, racism, sexism, xenophobia, personal or any other non medical justifications.

It is the final symptom of a sick society when there is a disturbed willingness to casually debate sacrificing the lives of far more others while showing far too much readiness to retain the best resources for the selfish and unworthy few.

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