Re: Republican's answer to health care
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:24 pm
While christians certainly do cost the system extra money with their mythology, I don't think it is anywhere the third, or more, of total healthcare costs that lawyers cost us.
Gardasil not being a mandatory vaccination, for example, the costs are real but intangible. This is a hugely beneficial vaccine, but is opposed by christians because they believe that people SHOULD contract disease if they have sex. This vaccine is safe and should be mandatory just like all the other vaccines, for boys as well as girls.
The christian belief that people SHOULD die of AIDs if they have sex, is one of the biggest reason why the disease is still widespread in the US.
As healthcare professions, we are required by Federal Law to allow the transmission of HIV between people. Any rational system based on providing good healthcare would seek to prevent the spread of the disease. We don't, and we can place half the blame on evangelicals.
Gardasil not being a mandatory vaccination, for example, the costs are real but intangible. This is a hugely beneficial vaccine, but is opposed by christians because they believe that people SHOULD contract disease if they have sex. This vaccine is safe and should be mandatory just like all the other vaccines, for boys as well as girls.
The christian belief that people SHOULD die of AIDs if they have sex, is one of the biggest reason why the disease is still widespread in the US.
As healthcare professions, we are required by Federal Law to allow the transmission of HIV between people. Any rational system based on providing good healthcare would seek to prevent the spread of the disease. We don't, and we can place half the blame on evangelicals.