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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Jamie153 who wrote (466421)1/27/2021 8:34:24 PM
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I had a colleague that had a pair of premature twins - he called them his million-dollar babies back when a million was a more substantial sum - probably 3 million today. Oh, and when they're born that young - the odds are that expense doesn't stop at the incubator and the two girls had learning disabilities too.

I have a hard time denying health care to anyone but this sum would have provided routine for what? 30 - 40 babies to age 18. Maybe this is just an expense society has to bear. The woman was tiny and boyish - narrow pelvis is a risk factor. Do we tell her? Is that sexist? Is it "size-ist"? What if the mother is 500 lbs? It is many times more likely the baby will be become type II diabetic early in life. There are people that think it is wrong to abort a Down's Syndrome baby or prevent the two Down's parents from conceiving.

This is a palette of ugly choices that real people and society has to address.
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