... "It is a moral mandate that no vital medical treatment be expensive...> Society is ducking the hard morality decisions in health... No, it is...is a valid issue in making 'moral' health care  decisions? Actually this isn...is a valid issue in making 'moral' health care  decisions? Not exactly, ... a more accurate description. Perhaps "mandate" is an ill-chosen word ...

...for a society to deny expensive medical treatment to patients who have knowingly... "It is a moral mandate that no vital medical treatment be expensive...> Society is ducking the hard morality decisions in health... No, it is...is a valid issue in making 'moral' health care decisions? Actually this isn...is a valid issue in making 'moral' health care decisions? Not exactly, ...

...for a society to deny expensive medical treatment to patients who have knowingly...you mean by this. Why should medical treatment be expensive.Simple really. ...> Society is ducking the hard morality decisions in health... No, it is... a valid issue in making 'moral' health care  decisions? Actually this ... is  necessary and, therefore, a moral mandate. I would agree if ...

...> So the beginning of this moral mandate is to discern sub-humans? ... for a society to deny expensive medical treatment to patients who have knowingly ...> A given here is the morality of 'expensive medical treatment'. I am not ... Society is ducking the hard morality decisions in health... No, it is ... is a valid issue in making 'moral' health care decisions? Actually this isn'...

...and future pleasures. So the beginning of this moral mandate is to discern sub-humans? Nature... it immoral for a society to deny expensive medical treatment to patients who have knowingly indulged in...increased the risk of their malady. A given here is the morality of 'expensive medical treatment'. Society is ducking the hard morality decisions in health... No, it is ducking the...

...patient's responsibility to pursue proper medical care. Doctors are not one-stop...something fundamentally broken in our USA medical system at the professionals' level:...&id=160 I agree that medical practice and health delivery in ... practioners (Drs) trained in European medical schools? . Only a small number ... delivery malpractice is responsible for medical problems that may develop until ...

...probably true. Another point is that it is really the patient's responsibility to pursue proper medical care. Doctors are not one-stop shops. The daunting part of pursuing proper care is that...has. It should not be that way. There is something fundamentally broken in our USA medical system at the professionals' level: a matter of professional degrees tightly coupled with responsibility/power ...

...it immoral for a society to deny  > expensive medical treatment to patients who have knowingly indulged ... them with minimal treatment. Point to the moral issues in those sentences. Speaking of the ... fundamentally a criminal mentality. Those with excellent medical insurance get better treatment than others. Some get more medical treatment than they need because the insurance is ...

... it immoral for a society to deny expensive medical treatment to patients who have knowingly indulged in... them with minimal treatment. Point to the moral issues in those sentences. Speaking of the USA ...is fundamentally a criminal mentality. Those with excellent medical insurance get better treatment than others. Some get more medical treatment than they need because the insurance is ...

... restricting supply, * All manner of mandates, imposed both by the feds ... whole slate of "public interest" mandates on health insurance --- "community rating... some mishmash of regulations and mandates on providers and insurers, all...insurance it was only "major medical" --- coverage for extraordinary expenses, and...a community." Communities are not moral agents; they are collections of...