So abortion is cruel, but uninsured American children don’t deserve health care because that’s “socialism”?
Question by the girl with kaleidoscope eyes: So abortion is cruel, but uninsured American children don’t deserve health care because that’s “socialism”?
-28,000 American infants die before they reach their first birthday
-Uninsured children are almost 9 times as likely to have a medical need that goes unmet than a child with health coverage, and are 5 times as likely as an insured child to go more than 2 years without seeing a doctor. Regular health screenings help doctors identify and treat problems preventively and are crucial to a child’s healthy development.
-An estimated two-thirds of children and youth with mental health needs are not getting the help they need. In fact, unmet need is as high today as it was 20 years ago. Children without mental health coverage are at risk of entering the Pipeline.
-Uninsured children are more than 4 times as likely as an insured child to have an unmet dental health need. In 2000, children missed more than 51 million hours of school because of dental-related illness.
-Uninsured children are more likely than insured children to perform poorly in school; in contrast, enrolling children in health coverage has been associated with greatly improved school performance.
1st of all, I don’t have kids, i’m 18, but I guess in your family thats the old age for having kids…
-Uninsured children come from working families. The vast majority of uninsured children (88.2 percent) come from families where at least one parent works, and more than two-thirds of uninsured children—or 68.5 percent—live in households where at least one family member works full-time, year-round.
So no, its not because of lazy parents.
-The five states with the largest number of uninsured children are Texas, California, Florida, New York, and Georgia. Together, the uninsured children in these five states account for nearly half of all uninsured children in the country (48.3 percent).
So its not only the “crazy liberal left wing” states…
I mean geez, even if the parent was a lazy bum, does the child deserve to suffer?
Why does everyone think I have kids?? Is 18 the average Conservative age for having kids? LMAO
Best answer:
Answer by No Pinheads
Awwwww too bad, I work to PAY for my kids insurance, try it sometime
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November 29th, 2011 at 7:36 am
Abortion was decided. NEXT?!
November 29th, 2011 at 8:13 am
Uh No. THats called Medicaid. Ever heard of it?
November 29th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Nice cut and paste but you are sooooo misled.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:38 am
That’s ‘pro life’ republicans for you.
“If you’re pre born, you’re fine. If you’re pre school, you’re fucked” -George Carlin
EDIT: Just look at your answers here. “Abortion is murder, but after your kid is born, it better pull itself up by the bootstraps, blah blah blah.”
November 29th, 2011 at 10:13 am
Exploit me ! Oh! Exploit me! Evil Socialism with their free health care and free tuition to college! Evil I say
November 29th, 2011 at 10:32 am
Ok, abortion and uninsured children are apples and oranges, sorry…
Nobody is denying that ideally, all children will have adequate medical care, but just because there are many who don’t does not justify the slaughter of the unborn.
Add: Can you possibly understand something-use LOGIC, no emotion allowed (I’m being serious, not at all demeaning)-
Insurance/medical care costs a LOT of money. So since there are MANY irresponsible “parents” out there that means that I am going to have to find a way to then pick up THEIR kids’ coverage costs along with my own childrens’ care AND mine. Ummm, how will I be able to afford that? Now multiply the cost for one kids’ coverage with the amount of uninsured children in this country-WHO will pay for this??? Why not get angry with the bad parents and expect THEM to do THEIR JOB??? I do my job-my kids are fed, have health care, adequate clothing and a roof over their heads. I don’t ask anyone to do it for me because it is nobody else’s job. It’s about reality, and sometimes the ideal is simply not realistic.
To put the financial burden of millions of uninsured kids onto the backs of those who are struggling to afford their own kids’ coverage is inhumane and wrong.
Maybe when you personally have your own kids and see what it costs, then you’ll get why people like me are being so “heartless”.
I do NOT want to see innocent kids suffering and without proper care, but it’s like I heard a Bible teacher say one time-just because there is a need, doesn’t mean you are called to meet it. There are literally COUNTLESS needs in this world, but we individually are incapable of carrying that much. We all need to do what we feel led to do and know we aren’t God and can’t simply fix everything
November 29th, 2011 at 11:09 am
It’s the parent’s responsibility to make sure the needs of their children are met. Not the government’s.
November 29th, 2011 at 11:36 am
Let me get this straight: because I don’t want to have to pay for OTHER PEOPLES’ KIDS, the proper alternative is to kill them so they won’t ever have a toothache?
November 29th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
That so sad. Now, get a job and pay for your own kids insurance like I do. I work for my money so I get to decide how it’s spent.
November 29th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Blah blah blah…
Children can easily get on medicaid and other types of insurance programs even if their parents aren’t eligible. The sympathy thing doesn’t work with people who are truly informed.
Btw, if people would get off their lazy ass and start working at a job that offers insurance (even fast food joints offer their workers insurance plans) then so many children in this country wouldn’t have to go without.
November 29th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!
DON’T WANT KIDS?
DON’T FU*K!
GET IT?
All of you drivel is pap and equivocation.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. GET IT?
November 29th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
No, Abortion is murder, premarital sex is wrong, and I am not paying for your healthcare because you were incapable of keeping your legs shut and desire to murder your own offspring. Using the children is a Cheap, obtuse, old politic tactic.
Fail.
November 29th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
you’re so right… we should kill them, too… national smothering and/or baby/shaking day would do the welfare system a great service, wouldn’t it?
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seriously – if you truly don’t see the difference in your heart, then no amount of common sense is going to make things clear for you
November 29th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Anti-choicers don’t care what happens to them once they’re born!
November 29th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I understand your concern for the uninsured children and even share it with you but I do not think nationalizing everyone’s health care is the answer. If a couple has a child it should be mandatory that they insure the child. I find it to be a form of neglect if parents fail to provided needed medical attention to children but adults, in most cases, make a choice that leads to the birth of the child. If you can not afford to live with the consequences then don’t take the action.
November 29th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
That is all crap making health care affordable is not socialism. Where ever you got that crap from is a moron.
November 29th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
It is socialism because i’m paying for healthcare that serves the needs of others.
Should i also start paying for other children’s food and water? After all, they are neccesities…..also, the fact that you are bashing conservatives demonstrates your lack of maturity on this topic – stop being one sided and listening to just what the leftist activists say.
November 29th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Abortion and health care have nothing to do with each other. If you decide to have children you should be sure you can provide for them instead of relying on taking other peoples (tax payer) money to provide for them. I have kids and worked as many jobs as it took for me to be able to provide what they needed. I did not rely on anyone but myself and never took one dime of government money! That is called responsibility which it seems is lacking in America today!
November 29th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
You’re right. It makes sense.
But you’ve got a whole segment of the population who’s been bred to believe the powers that be are justified in being the powers that be and that somehow, corporate “freedom” to spew out useless vanity goods equates health care, education, and whatever basic good that energy could be used for instead.
We’ve got the potentialities.
We’re just horribly misplacing them.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
another republican misconception. Here are a few more
environment saving- financially counterproductive tree-hugging
getting us out of the recession-socialism
life-saving abortions- cruel murder
see? It’s how they operate. Just call anything that is productive some name to hide the true evil behind their plans
November 29th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
rather than forcing me to pay for someone else’s kids to have insurance, why isn’t democrats pushing to have laws passed that makes it illegal to have a kid if you can’t afford one?
November 29th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Yes abortion is cruel. No one has ever said children don’t deserve health care.
I think you live in a fantasy world if you think that all those things you posted will miraculously disappear when Obama socializes the health care industry.
November 29th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
I think im the only one that agree’s with you. Yes you should get a job and work to get insurance and not worry about living off the government but its not always that easy. Me and my husband both work full time jobs and i also work a part time job on the weekends. I was laid off from my job not to long ago and the new jobs i was able to find does not provide health care. But i needed a job so what am i to do? We both make to much money to get any assistance from the government yet we dont have jobs that will give us health care? obviously i have to take my child to the doctors thats important to me, so our medical bills are outragious! We are having to pay for the doctor bills from his birth! Because i was laid off right before i had him! It sucks and its not fare that even though im working my butt off tons of people are sitting pretty and collecting tons of money from the government yet i cant even get simple health insurance for my son?
November 29th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
I’m sorry but what’s the question, it”s a long one, but I”m not sure what we are supposed to say or answer. The answer seems to be, Roe vs Wade was the correct answer. The less children the less problems with uninsured children. I don”t understand. If you can’t afford to have a child and insure it and feed it and take care of it, you shouldn”t have it.. There are alternatives.
November 29th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
The health care crisis is politics that have some doctors,lawyers and insurance companies committing insurance fraud there was nothing wrong with the medicaid program just like Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction It is just their way to keep money in each others pocket and who gets hurt the ones that can’t defend themselves I’m surprised to not see people fighting this and calling these giants as they are called out.Did you know giants can fall,ever heard about David and Goliath?
November 29th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Correct. From the day they are born till the day they’re old enough to enlist and go fight and die for corporate profits the American right doesn’t want to know about the poor.
Behind their deceitful lines about personal responsibility, rugged individualism, small government, family values the American right simply advocates social darwinism. The leaders knowingly promote it, the followers, conservative masses repeating what they hear on talk radio and fox, well they just follow.
Social Darwinism, term coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in “survival of the fittest.” Social Darwinists base their beliefs on theories of evolution developed by British naturalist Charles Darwin. Some social Darwinists argue that governments should not interfere with human competition by attempting to regulate the economy or cure social ills such as poverty. Instead, they advocate a laissez-faire political and economic system that favors competition and self-interest in social and business affairs. Social Darwinists typically deny that they advocate a “law of the jungle.” But most propose arguments that justify imbalances of power between individuals, races, and nations because they consider some people more fit to survive than others.
Social Darwinism’s philosophical problems are rather daunting, and fatal to it as a basic theory (though some have applied similar ideas). First, it makes the faulty assumption that what is natural is equivalent to what is morally correct. In other words, it falls prey to the belief that just because something takes place in nature, it must be a moral paradigm for humans to follow.
This problem in Social Darwinist thinking stems from the fact that the theory falls into the “naturalistic fallacy”, which consists of trying to derive an ought statement from an is statement. For example, the fact that you stubbed your toe this morning does not logically imply that you ought to have stubbed your toe! The same argument applies to the Social Darwinists’ attempt to extend natural processes into human social structures. This is a common problem in philosophy, and it is commonly stated that it is absolutely impossible to derive ought from is (though this is still sometimes disputed); at the very least, it is impossible to do it so simply and directly as the Social Darwinists did.