Go here to help.<\/a>\u00a0She has raised less than a third of what she need in four months. \u00a0Less than a third.<\/p>\nI get these pleas all the time from readers trapped in our third world health care system.<\/p>\n
It is criminal that this poor woman needs to busk on the internet in order to obtain the health care to which she has a right, but that is how it is in a country in which Christians have divorced the right to life from the right to be born and imagine that the latter cancels the former. \u00a0It\u2019s how it is in a country where the people who hate the attempt to make health care accessible to all do not see this woman, but only see a chance to gloat that this attempt was imperfect, sabotage it, and replace it with something that will inflict even more draconian punishments on her.<\/p>\n
The Libertarian lie to which she is subjected claims that the Libertarian is somehow being \u201crobbed\u201d of the chance to be generous if the state makes sure that a social safety net guarantees she receives the surgery she needs. \u00a0But the same \u201cgenerous\u201d Libertarian then subjects her to questions about whether her levels of pain \u201cmerit\u201d surgery, whether her odd name means she is a New Ager or (gasp) a Muslim who is not worthy of surgery, whether she is jacking up the cost of the surgery in order to scam us all, and whether, in short, she is one of the \u201cdeserving\u201d sick. \u00a0If she passes all these moral tests in begging for money for desperately needed surgery, then the \u201cgenerous\u201d Libertarian (if he is lucky enough to have ever heard her plea) then (if the mood strikes him) kicks five bucks into the GoFundMe and congratulates himself for being the Good Samaritan. \u00a0Because, for the Libertarian, it\u2019s all about him, his feelings, \u00a0his needs, his wants, his desires. \u00a0Whether or not this woman actually gets the health care she needs is entirely irrelevant. \u00a0The goal is to *feel* generous. \u00a0And she damn well better be grateful to him.<\/p>\n
These are the moral priorities of the people currently salivating at the thought of kicking 23 million people off health care. \u00a0And they are cheered on most loudly by \u201cprolife\u201d Christians for whom life is sacred from conception to birth\u2013unless your mother has \u201ctoo many children\u201d and is trying to \u201cgame the system\u201d by, you know, obeying the Church about not using contraception. \u00a0Then she should be forced to beg on the internet too\u2013and be scolded for doing so.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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