If you are disabled ( particularly if you BECAME disabled on the job) you worked and maybe have bills as a DIRECT result of being disabled.
Look, you are responsible for yourself the government is NOT your parent, HOWEVER when one commits an act any act that society as a whole has deemed to be so unacceptable that you should be removed from society, with that decision they become responsible for you since they said that you cannot live out in society. Until then however manage your own money and healthcare and be responsible for your own decisions good or bad.
I think that is a natural, moral obligation of those with medical training. If someone is injured in public or collapses, and you have the medical skills to help then you should. Without checking to see who they are or how much money is in their account.
Formalization and expansion... if you know how to give initial care (stopping blood, putting someone in the right position, CPR) then you should. You should ensure someone calls 911. The responders are obligated to come, administer on scene care and transport to the correct place. The people at the hospital are obligated to immediately begin care. All of that occurs without condition on who the person is or how much money they have and no one, morally speaking, has justification for not providing a service they are trained to provide.
Should I provide care yes. Would I personally provide care or call for help? Yes Should I be mandated to do so by the government no As for the hospitals they are ONLY required to get you stable zero else and it should be that way.
That sounds reasonable. For the sake of argument lets say you are right and this ID number doesn't just show the plan but also shows the way you purchased it. This could make information available that a doctor could use if he or she had the motivation to discriminate based on it. Now on to the second question I posed in the same post. Why would the doctors care what method you used to purchase you plan?Wouldn't it matter more what you plan was as opposed to how you went about purchasing it? Say one customer bought plan "x" from Bluecross through the exchange and another person bought the same plan "x" from Bluecross via some other route. What would the doctor gain by refusing the first person and accepting the second person? It's the quality of plan that would matter not the method one used to purchase it.
I didn't say most people would not seek treat; I said that it is an OPTION not to.
While American conservatives criticize Obamacare, they fail to provide any alternatives and hope for the millions of citizens who currently are either unable to afford private healthcare insurance, or have pre-existing conditions that make them uninsurable.
