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Jan
29
Don’t Write Off The Next Generation
Filed Under health care, Hillary Clinton, liberalism, Social Security Disability, socialism, The Sample Gates, township government | Comments Off
I came across an interesting post written by Indiana University student Chase Cooper in the Indiana Daily Student’s Sample Gates blog raising issues with the seemingly insurmountable push to socialize America’s medical providers.
Don’t treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone… About one in 10 hospitals already deny some surgery to obese patients and smokers, with restrictions most common in hospitals battling debt.
Remind me again why liberalism is seen as caring and compassionate?
If socialized healthcare provided by our government will be anything like all of the other government programs already providing benefits for Americans — remember the failures in the Veterans Administration, routine denials of benefits to Social Security Disability applicants, the long lines early on cold mornings in front of the Calumet Township trustee’s office, and people waiting decades for immigration papers to be processed — count me out.
It’s great to see that the future of America — the next generation — know that they are likely to get the short end of the stick if we socialize American medicine.
Dec
29
A History Of Indiana Eugenics
Filed Under eugenics, health care, Indiana history | Comments Off
Indiana has the not-so-honorable distinction of being the first state to pass a eugenics law in 1907 and which 30 states would eventually put into their statutes. These types of laws were the model for what Germany put into place in 1933.
INdiana Systemic Thinking has a thought-provoking post about the past, present, and future of eugenics in Indiana.
Dr. Eric Schansberg, in a guest editorial in the Fort Wayne News Sentinel, gives a history of eugenics in Indiana, and implications for today and the future. When one reads the article, you are struck by how distasteful this was. When he applies this to today’s science and political culture, it is just plain scary.
We observed a dubious centennial this year. In 1907, Indiana became the first state in America to pass a eugenics law.
Eugenics can be defined as the study of the hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled, selective breeding. Because of what we now know about genetics, eugenics turns out to be a pseudo-science loaded with philosophical and ethical baggage.
