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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (16579)4/10/2010 9:44:24 AM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I'd want to know more about how his father died. I'd want to know what health care he got and didn't get and why. We don't know that he was "refused help." I don't know anything about ulcers but I have trouble believing that one bad enough to rupture would have been denied treatment solely on the basis of ability to pay. He got surgery, after all. It's too simplistic to conclude that the guy died because he was poor. Maybe he did, but Rock didn't give us enough information to determine that. It may be the case but it's also an easy claim out of ideology or personal loss.

Exactly why is it that Americans refuse to help their fellow citizens?

I don't think that's the case. I really don't. Sure, there are sociopaths about, who, by definition, don't empathize. But most care at least as much about suffering Americans as they do about suffering Africans. I question the judgment you're making.

We Americans do provide for those who are helpless. We don't necessarily want to bring them up to our standard of living. We don't necessarily want to help those who could but don't help themselves. We may not go out of our way to find those who need help but rather expect them to ask for it. And we may think it best to offer charity rather than entitlements. But that's not the same as refusing to help.
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