Health Care for the Virtuous
Over a dozen states are considering legislation that would permit health care workers to refuse to provide care if doing so would conflict with their personal beliefs. A majority of these proposals would shield pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control pills and "morning after" pills.
What a perfect solution to the health care crisis in America -- end health care altogether. Anti-choice pharmacists will be abe to refuse to help those who don't share their religious beliefs. And that will save money.
But of course an atheist emergency room clinician may not want to help flatlined evangelical pharmacists. "Why resuscitate another religious zealot? " the ER doc might say. "It's not like there's a shortage of them anyway." More money saved.
Doctors who don't believe in alcohol could refuse liver transplants to wine drinkers. We might even be able to save enough to pay for the war in Iraq. (And doctors opposed to violence could refuse to treat wounded soldiers, saving more money.)
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