Universal Healthcare: What a crock of shit!

[CreativeMind]

Originally Posted by CreativeMind

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

Originally Posted by aa2239

Never mind all that, what about BASIC HUMAN DECENCY?!?!?! The principal that says: "I have more than you, but you're in greater need than me, so I will help you"... such a simple notion, and one that would revolutionize society for the better, if people weren't so stupid and selfish...

Well, I was addressing that same notion, aa2239 -- that's why I put that one section in BOLD. That's the whole POINT of that line in the Hippocratic Oath -- namely, that regardless of a patient's "economic stability", a doctor's first and foremost duty is to HELP that person. Hence the next line in the oath that clearly states: "I will prevent disease wherever I can."