Now you expect insurance to pay for your mistakes?
Why should everyone bbe burdened by your decision? If insurance pays for all the disabled child needs, then that means everyone else has to pay a higher insurance rate to offset the costs.

Would u be ok for an insurance company to pay for physical therapy on a guy who was constantly jumping and falling flat on his back even AFTER he was warned by doctors that it is very unhealhy?

Case closed

AMEN, sister, you said it there!

I’ve always considered myself to be very conservative. When I wrote this post I began thinking I was more liberal than I had believed. Until I met a guy the next day whose words & attitudes made it clear to me that I am still VERY conservative. LOL

I also agree about not voting single issue. There are many who do use the pro-life, or pro-choice, as a tool to get elected and like you said, pro-lifers in office aren’t accomplishing anything. I won’t vote for anyone just because they are pro-life, but in good conscience cannot vote for anyone who is pro-choice because I am passionate about the right to life for unborn children. These children are brutally murdered and anyone who can support this, touts their stance as pro-choice to earn votes, will not have my vote.

I am politically frustrated with our country. I consider myself a conservative, not a republican, and vote accordingly. Though, I confess it’s getting harder and harder to find candidates that even seem worthy of office. I think this speaks to the overall spiritual and moral decay of our society.

I hope we can both see the ideals we hold come to pass, in a way that will be good for our country and not ultimately detrimental to individual freedom. I think we are wanting the same things. I think many Americans, liberal and conservative, have many common goals, but again, we disagree on how to accomplish them.

My problem with the argument you use here–voting “single issue”–is that I haven’t seen anyone DO anything. Lots of people try to get my vote based on the prolife issue, but once they’re in office, they do nothing about it. Because they can’t–because of cultural resistance, as I said above. Why should I vote single-issue prolife when they’re not doing anything anyway?

Finally, as to “selfish”–my family is really lucky to live in a county where local government supports people with disabilities. So it’s not really me that needs this, anyway. We have other avenues; I just think it’s reprehensible that we should have to use them. What about all the other kids like my daughter who aren’t so lucky? To be truly prolife, you have to give people the support they need to raise children–whether they have DS or autism or CP or are completely “normal.” Otherwise, how can you be horrified when they choose to abort?

I acknowledge the high termination rate in Europe–but I think it’s the same here. I don’t mean to belittle the abortion issue–it is trmendously important to me. All I’m saying is, this issue is incredibly complex and cannot be painted in bald black & white terms. And abortion exists because we have a contraceptive mentality in this culture. As long as that continues, abortion will remain.

In government programs your care is directed by your physician, not by the patient. As a parent, you are not entitled to make simple decisions such as which vaccines you want your child to receive or not. You will vaccinate or risk losing your child to the government. We won’t even get into the lack of freedom in education parent’s face, as I’m focusing on healthcare, but it’s outrageous how much you and your children belong to the system.

As far as children, with disabilities, etc., most of those children are aborted in European countries. Because they are pressured to not have children that need to receive ongoing care, thus costing the government more money. Those people are a burden to the system and can be denied care if they choose to have a child with a known condition before birth. I recently read an article on a newborn needing care in Canada and the government was refusing to pay for care for a child that they basically said just needed to die. Do we think our country will be above this? It will come down to cost and what’s best for the society as a whole, not the individual families.

Thought I’d share some other points to think about before supporting government run healthcare. I think we need better healthcare in this country. I would support price caps on care, because often doctors do price gouge those that are sick. We need benefits and incentives for doctors and healthcare workers who will volunteer part of their time at clinics for those who cannot afford care, etc. There are many ways to develop plans to help reduce costs and cover those in our communities who cannot afford it. You know, there are many hospitals that have programs people can donate to which cover the bills for low income people who qualify. How many people who support socialized medicine have ever check into what they can personally do to help those in their own communities?