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Originally Posted by analog
Right, you choose to become pregnant and have a child. Your choice makes it an elective procedure.
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I don't understand the rationale behind universal health care covering elective procedures such as childbirth. Elective = choose to have performed.
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That's a damn slippery slope. If someone chooses to smoke and ends up with lung cancer, you think that cancer treatment is thereby an "elective" procedure? Universal health care shouldn't cover this person's treatment (and possibly preventing their DEATH) because they made a bad choice?
If I make the choice to go into my burning house and drag out dogs out so they don't burn to death, universal health care shouldn't cover any burn management treatment because I "elected" to do so?
There are a lot of choices to make in life, and many of them are bad. The idea of "Universal Health Care," however, is to prevent and treat human suffering and death. I fail to see how "choices" they make are even relevant. The fact is that they're suffering now.