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Re:"God help you. You're on dialysis." by _delirium on Sunday November 21, 2010 @12:08AM (#1926364)
Very few people in the U.S. fully oppose a positive right to health-care though. They're against a positive right to see a doctor and get regular treatment, but are in favor of a positive right to receive emergency-room care if necessary. Hence, ERs are required to treat heart-attack and stroke patients who show up on their doorstep, even if the victim is uninsured and has no ability to pay; turning them away is illegal.

So the question isn't over whether there's a positive right to health care--- almost everyone agrees there is to some extent. The disagreement is over which kinds of care are included in the right.

Re:"God help you. You're on dialysis." by robryan on Sunday November 21, 2010 @12:29AM (#1926407)
The deeper problem here may be though that treating an emergency patient that is dying thus requiring immediate care they can't afford could run higher costs that the appropriate preventative treatment they were unable to afford.

Morally we are obligated to save the emergency patients life but also morally we shouldn't have let their condition slip to the point it is in.