...what? This is not at all the same thing as wanting your tax dollars to go towards helping people pay for life saving operations.
Sure it is. The reason health care can never be a right is because health care requires someone else's labor. It is impossible to have a right to someone else's life, liberty, or property. If a doctor doesn't want to treat someone, for whatever reason, whether it's religious objections or just plain "he's not willing to pay me enough money to do it" the government has no right to force them. So, socialized medicine can do one of two things. Either force the doctors to treat people anyway, against their will, or, allow the doctors to charge whatever they want for whatever procedure and force the taxpayers to foot the bill, against their will. The second option is imperfect, because there are some doctors who, for moral or religious reasons, will refuse to perform certain procedures regardless of price. What happens then?
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